THE PERCEPTION OF DISCRIMINATION IN TURKEY However, it is seen that the group with a high awareness of discrimination against wearing headscarves and Muslims, and also the group with a high level of awareness about political discrimination in public, can share the discriminatory language when it comes to Kurds, Syrian refugees, and LGBTI+’s. For example, after a participant from Ağrı origin stating that the labelling of all Kurdish and Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) executives and members as “terrorists" is a great example of discrimination, statements of nationalist-conservative E. and CHP supporter S is a quite noteworthy if we consider their above-mentioned conversation on the employment of wearing headscarves in the social services institution. “E: To tell the truth, I find discrimination against HDP people just. At the end of the day, it's baby-killer’s party. (...) S: I find it wrong to label the Kurds as terrorists for myself. Because I think the PKK is not Kurdish but Armenian. 17” As a result, when it comes to the perception of the prevalence of discrimination, we can say that there are three positions: 1.Affinitive Perception of Discrimination: It is the perception of the group discriminated for being a minority/subaltern based on the identity group and / or worldview; but may also be affinitive with other discriminated groups, expressing discrimination is widespread in Turkey. 2.Ego-centric Perception of Discrimination: It is the perception of the group that can only distinguish the discrimination towards their identity group and remain insensitive to the discrimination to other groups- sometimes even the discrimination is done by their group as well. The ones with this form of perception differentiate discrimination as fair/unfair discrimination and think that discrimination is partially widespread in Turkey. 3.Exceptional Perception of Discrimination: It is the perception of a group belonging to the majority and does not accept there is discrimination against minority/subaltern identity groups. They only perceive concrete cases that cannot be denied but think they are exceptional. This group acknowledged that discrimination is less widely in Turkey. We can now have a closer look to how these different forms of perception eval17 Bulgu Araştırma, 1st Focus Group Meeting on August 1, 2018 18