Articles by IPS Communication Foundation – Bianet
“Nokta” magazine’s offices raided, files copied, premises occupied by police for four days, following critical articles about military
(BIANET/IFEX) – Weekly news magazine “Nokta”‘s editor-in-chief Alper Görmüs said on 16 April 2007 that the publishing policy of his magazine will not change despite harassment by security forces and the judiciary following critical articles about the Turkish military. On 13 April the magazine’s offices were raided by some 50 police officers, who left on […]
Court blocks access to popular website following defamation complaint
(BIANET/IFEX) – Responding to a civil complaint, an Istanbul court recently banned access to the online news source Eksisozluk ( http://www.sourtimes.org ). Adnan Oktar, a self-proclaimed religious sect leader, complained to the court that the online interactive site, where members can add and edit comments on anything, contained defamatory remarks about him. Eyup’s third court […]
Journalist, event organiser on trial, face possible imprisonment, for “insulting, humiliating security forces” in discussion panel
(BIANET/IFEX) – Ersen Korkmaz, the owner of the local newspaper “Demokrat Iskenderun”, has been on trial for four years and a half over a paper he wrote entitled “They caught the leader of the Kurds and gave him to the fascists”, for a panel organized by Turkey’s Communist Party (TKP). Korkmaz and another member of […]
Kurdistan TV correspondents in Diyarbakir harassed, spied on and threatened by authorities
(BIANET/IFEX) – Northern Iraq-based Kurdistan TV’s correspondents in Diyarbakir claim that they face arbitrary discrimination by local officials and receive random threats. The station’s Diyarbakir bureau chief Mehmet Eren told BIANET that they established the necessary infrastructure in 2006 but have been harassed since then. “Although we totally comply with the legal framework, we cannot […]
Government tries to block pro-Kurdish television channel; 56 mayors face prosecution for opposing these efforts
(BIANET/IFEX) – Fifty-six mayors, most of them members of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP), are being prosecuted for sending a joint letter to Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, urging that he reject Turkey’s efforts to close down pro-Kurdish satellite television channel Roj TV. They face possible punishments of up to 15 years’ imprisonment. […]
CAPSULE REPORT: More restrictive laws, increased prosecution of journalists in 2006, shows BIANET report
(BIANET/IFEX) – The following is an abbreviated version of a 16 February 2007 BIANET press release: BIA2 Media Monitoring Desk releases its 2006 Report Freedom of Expression Cases Rise as 293 People Face Prosecution 2006 turned out to be the year when both the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the main opposition Republican […]