IPS Communication Foundation – Bianet

Özgür Bogatekin, a representative of the local “Gerger Firat” newspaper in Adiyaman, southeastern Turkey, has been sentenced to 14 months and 17 days’ imprisonment for an article in which he argued that his father, journalist Haci Bogatekin, was being held in prison unlawfully.

(BIANET/IFEX) – The Istanbul 13th Heavy Penal Court has handed down one-month publication bans to two newspapers for allegedly spreading PKK propaganda. On 11 April 2009, the Istanbul 13th Heavy Penal Court decreed that the daily “Kurdish Azadiya Welat” newspaper and the weekly “Özgür Mezopotamya” (Free Mesopotamia), which had just started operating, be banned from […]

(BIANET/IFEX) – On 21 April 2009, the 4th High Criminal Court of Diyarbakir sentenced two Kurdish politicians to ten months imprisonment under Article 7/2 of the Anti-Terrorism Law. Osman Baydemir, mayor of the Greater Diyarbakir Municipality and Nejdet Atalay, provincial chair of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP), of which Baydemir is also a member, […]

Seferi Yilmaz, whose bookstore in Semdinli, Hakkari was attacked in November 2005, faces a prison sentence for referring to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) condemned leader, Abdullah Öcalan, as the “Kurdish people’s hero”, during a panel discussion in Bursa

Far-right Great Union Party (BBP) Istanbul youth branch chair Mustafa Kayatuzu physically attacked “Taraf” daily columnist Rasim Ozan Kütahyali when he mentioned BBP leader Muhsin Yazicioglu’s involvement in the Maras massacre during a television show

(BIANET/IFEX) – An Ankara court has acquitted Mustafa Karayay, who faced three years’ imprisonment for criticising military service. “A man born in Turkey cannot have a duty to his fatherland just because he was born in Turkey. This is not only true for Turkey either. People are born naked, without sin, without debt, and most […]

(BIANET/IFEX) – Servet Özen, the lawyer for Dicle News Agency (DIHA) reporter Abdurrahman Gök, says that an objection to his client’s arrest has been rejected. He says that he will file a complaint for torture and maltreatment of his client after seeing the medical file. Gök was taken into custody while covering the Newroz celebrations […]

(BIANET/IFEX) – The “Atylym” newspaper has been handed a one-month publishing ban because it allegedly spread propaganda for the Marxist Leninist Communist Party. An Istanbul court has decreed that the weekly “Atylym” newspaper will not be allowed to publish for one month, saying that the newspaper’s coverage of statements by the Marxist Leninist Communist Party […]