Articles by IPS Communication Foundation – Bianet
Publisher harassed over Turkish edition of Burroughs novel “The Soft Machine”
The Prime Ministerial Board for the Protection of Children from Harmful Publications deemed that the 1961 book, recently published in Turkey by the Sel Publishing Company, was “obscene.”
Newspaper and journalist fined for “attack on the Prime Minister’s personal rights”
According to the prime minister, Bekir Coskun’s article entitled “Why can’t you destroy the republic?” “included insulting and invective statements with the intention of attacking his personal rights”.
Another “Azadiya Welat” journalist given prison sentence
Deniz Kilic is the second “Azadiya Welat” journalist to be given a prison sentence in the past week.
Court sentences journalist to six years in jail on propaganda charges
Ozan Kilinc was accused of “spreading propaganda for an illegal organisation” in two separate files heard by the Diyarbakir 5th High Criminal Court.
Legal landscape dominated by Anti-Terror Law in 2010, says BIANET media monitoring report
According to the report, 220 people, 104 of whom are journalists, stood trial in 2010 in cases linked to freedom of thought or expression.
Police raid daily in search of unpublished book
Police searched the office of the “Radikal” newspaper in connection with an unpublished book by detained journalist Ahmet Sik.
Appeals against journalists’ detention rejected
Appeals filed against the detention of journalists Ahmet Sik and Nedim Sener were dismissed by the Istanbul 10th High Criminal Court which issued a ruling that did not mention reasons related to their particular situation.
Twenty former DTP members convicted on propaganda charges
The charges stem from their attendance at a sit-in organised by the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) in Batikent, Diyarbakir in 2008.