Articles by Initiative for Freedom of Expression – Turkey
Three members of children’s choir face charges of “making propaganda for a terrorist organisation” after singing Kurdish song in U.S. music festival
(Antenna-TR/IFEX) – Three children, members of the Diyarbakir Yenisehir Council Children’s Choir, will stand trial for singing a march in Kurdish while performing in the U.S. The indictment, dated 3 April 2008, seeks the imprisonment of three children under the age of 18 for up to five years each. The choir attended the World Music […]
Chief prosecutor seeks to punish parliamentarian over comment about army
(Antenna-TR/IFEX) – The Ankara Chief Prosecutor has prepared a memorandum and sent it to the Ministry of Justice, to be delivered to the Parliament, seeking to strip Democratic Turkey Party (DTP) deputy (and former president) Mr. Ahmet Turk of his immunity, in order that Turk might be tried on the charge of “insult” to the […]