IPS Communication Foundation – Bianet

The fine was applied after one of the station’s programmes touched on topics relating to the Kurdish question.

Ismail Besikci and Zeycan Balci Simsek are facing time in prison after publishing an article that included a word using the Kurdish spelling with a “q” rather than the Turkish version with a “k”.

Nese Duzel and Adnan Demir are facing prison sentences based on the publication of interviews with two executives of an umbrella organisation that includes the outlawed PKK.

Hincal Uluc is alleged to have insulted football club director Adnan Sezgin on a television programme and in an article published in “Photomatch” newspaper.

A number of Turkish politicians have been jailed for talking about Kurdish issues; BIANET says that 19 representatives of one political party are facing a total of 2,473 years in prison.

Berktas is being tried on charges of “spreading propaganda for an illegal organization”, related to her book published in April 2000 by Yediveren Publishing.

On the occasion of International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, on 25 November 2010, 44 IFEX members, including members of the IFEX Gender Working Group, call attention to the situation of women in the free expression community who are subject to targeted attacks because of their gender.

Cem Buyukcakir was sentenced for having published a reader comment that implied that President Abdullah Gul had Armenian ancestry.