Articles by IPS Communication Foundation – Bianet
Telecommunications authority bans 138 words from the Internet
The list of banned words is the latest step in a series of oppressive actions that continue to increasingly restrict Internet freedom in Turkey, said BIANET.
BIANET 2010 Media Monitoring Report
According to BIANET’s 2010 report, 220 people, including 104 journalists, were tried in court on free expression related charges in 2010.
Journalist assaulted by customs officer
Selahattin Kacuru was attacked when he went to the Turkish-Iranian border to investigate a story on smuggling and organised crime.
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.