Articles by IPS Communication Foundation – Bianet
Nine small newspapers fined for “influencing judiciary” in case of murdered publishing house employees; journalists investigated for publishing information on same case
(BIANET/IFEX) – Nine local newspapers, none with a circulation over 4,000, have been fined for “influencing the judiciary” in the Malatya murder case. The newspapers are refusing to pay and will collaborate on appealing the decision. The newspapers, which published a news item by the Ihlas News Agency (IHA) concerning the murders at the Zirve […]
Newspapers fined heavily for reporting on detained soldiers
(BIANET/IFEX) – In November 2007, the Gendarmerie Public Order Corps Command Military Court in Van, in rsouth-eastern Turkey, ordered a ban on all broadcasting and publication of information elated to the investigation of eight soldiers taken hostage by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) on 21 October 2007 and released two weeks later. They were arrested […]
CAPSULE REPORT: More violations of free expression in 2007, says BIANET report
(BIANET/IFEX) – The following is an 18 January 2008 BIANET report: BIA 2007 Media Monitoring Report: A Sad Year For Free Speech The “BIA Annual Media Monitoring Report” for the year 2007 has been published in Turkish and will soon also appear in English. The 60-page report is divided into “attacks and threats”, “detentions and […]
Two women journalists critical of militarism targeted by nationalist newspaper
(BIANET/IFEX) – The nationalist “Tercuman” newspaper has targeted journalists Perihan Magden and Ece Temelkuran for expressing their anti-militarist opinions. BIANET fears that this is a frightening repeat of what happened to Hrant Dink. The “Halka ve Olaylara Tercuman” (“Interpreter of the People and Events”) newspaper was one of the newspapers which did not cover the […]
Editor on trial for publishing article mentioning Ataturk, faces possible prison sentence
(BIANET/IFEX) – Yasin Yetisgen, managing editor of the local newspaper “Coban Atesi” (“Shepherd’s Fire”) in Gaziantep, faces up to seven and a half years in prison for publishing an article containing references to Ataturk. The article was written by a journalist, Berkant Coskun, who lives abroad, and was entitled “Mother, Don’t Send Me to Military […]
ECHR condemns censorship under emergency law, awards compensation to journalists
(BIANET/IFEX) – The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has awarded compensation to journalists who were punished under emergency law and whose newspaper was banned in the Emergency Law regions. The ECHR considered the cases of journalists from the “Evrensel” and “Günlük Evrensel” newspapers on 8 January 2008. The court decreed that the punishment of […]
Court case against writer, editor and magazine owner dropped on technicality
(BIANET/IFEX) – The court case against sociologist Ismail Besikci, “Esmer” magazine owner Ferzende Kaya, and the magazine’s editor, Mehmet Ali Izmir, has been dropped because of “lapse of time”. The three had been charged under Article 216 of the Turkish Penal Code for “inciting hatred and hostility” because of an article Besikci wrote in the […]
Writer receives 14-month suspended sentence over “Aktüel” magazine article
(BIANET/IFEX) – Writer Perihan Magden has been given a 14-month suspended prison sentence under Article 125 of the Penal Code for reporting on what people said about Aytac Akgül when Akgül was the governor of Yüksekova district, in the southeastern province of Hakkari. She has been convicted of insulting Akgül. An article published in the […]