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IPI: Coup on Press FreedomDate:26/10/2010 The Turkish news channel CNN Türk was punished by RTÜK for criticism on President Gül voiced by the Secretary General of the Labour Party...
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Tuesday, 26 October 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
RIGHTS-TURKEY: Freedom of Expression Under AttackDate:09/03/2009 As it aspires for full European Union membership, Turkey is still struggling with freedom of expression, raising questions whether it can ever join the EU or will simply remain a suspended bridge between East and West...
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Monday, 9 March 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
TURKEY: Access Blocked, a new trend in freedom of speechDate:17/10/2008 Surfing YouTube...
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Friday, 17 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Turkey: Beatings still method preferred by local officials for silencing journalistsDate:06/08/2009 Two physical attacks on journalists in the past month and two ongoing trials have again highlighted the aversion that local authorities in Turkey display towards reporters who try to cover local government corruption...
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Thursday, 6 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Turkey: Court bans access to Google sites websiteDate:10/07/2009 The Second Criminal Court of Peace in Denizli, western Turkey, has banned access to Google Sites, which contains thousands of websites...
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Friday, 10 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Turkey: Court Ruled: Freedom of Speech Instead of Forbidden PropagandaDate:04/12/2009 The Diyarbakir Metropolitan Mayor Osman Baydemir was acquitted by the Diyarbakir 6th High Criminal Court...
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Friday, 4 December 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
TURKEY: Court rules Tugluk’s speech exceeds limits of freedomDate:11/02/2009 A Diyarbakir court which sentenced pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) deputy Aysel Tugluk to 18 months in prison released its reasoned decision on the case yesterday...
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Wednesday, 11 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Turkey: 'Dink murder a vicious attack on freedom of expression'Date:19/01/2009 Sir Geoffrey Bindman, a British legal expert on human rights issues, has said the murderers of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, who was assassinated two years ago today by a young man influenced by neo-nationalism, took aim at his vision of a Turkey that allowed free speech...
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Monday, 19 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
TURKEY: Freedom Of Speech At Risk, Says Rights Activist Date:11/03/2009 Ardent defenders of religious faith represent the greatest threat to freedom of speech, human rights advocate Stéphane Hessel tells swissinfo...
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Wednesday, 11 March 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Turkey: Government urged to include press freedom in its opening to Kurdish minorityDate:02/09/2009 Reporters Without Borders firmly condemns the one-month bans that Istanbul courts have imposed in the past 10 days on two newspapers that defend the rights of Turkey’s Kurds – the daily Günlük and the weekly Özgür Ortam – for allegedly promoting the cause of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)...
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Wednesday, 2 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
TURKEY: Is calling for a coup covered by freedom of expression?Date:02/02/2009 Turkey recently began to discuss whether expressing ones desire for a coup falls under freedom of expression and if forming a network to prepare the groundwork for a coup can be considered a crime because no crime actually took place...
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Monday, 2 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
TURKEY: Istanbul court orders blocking of British author’s websiteDate:03/10/2008 An Istanbul court has ordered a ban on Turkish access to British author Richard Dawkins' website after controversial Islamist and creationist Adnan Oktar claimed the site contained comments defaming him...
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Friday, 3 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Turkey: Kurdish newspaper receives two-month publication banDate:16/06/2009 An Istanbul court has convicted the daily newspaper Günlük of spreading PKK propaganda in two issues of the paper...
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Tuesday, 16 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Turkey: Lawyers Call for Revision of Penal Code and Fewer ArrestsDate:08/05/2009 At a Freedom of Expression Conference in Istanbul, lawyers evaluated the legal basis of the protection and violation of freedom of expression in Turkey...
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Friday, 8 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Turkey: Özgür-Der closure case puts freedom of speech under spotlight Date:11/05/2009 Representatives from civil society organizations have denounced a court case aiming to shut down the Freedom Association (Özgür-Der), stressing that the closure of the association, which fights for broader rights and freedoms in Turkey, would deal a serious blow to freedom of expression in the country...
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Monday, 11 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Turkey: Prosecutors violate online free expression to protect copyrightDate:23/09/2009 The social networking website MySpace has been blocked in Turkey since 19 September over a copyright dispute...
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Wednesday, 23 September 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Turkey: Reporter faces up to 28 years in prison for book about journalist's murderDate:10/06/2009 Nedim Sener, a reporter for the daily Milliyet, who has written a book about the murder of journalist Hrant Dink, faces up to 28 years in prison after police officers filed complaints against him...
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Wednesday, 10 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
TURKEY: Second Hrant Dink ConferenceDate:15/01/2009 British law expert Sir Geoffrey Bindman will speak at the second Hrant Dink Human Rights and Freedom of Expression Conference hosted by Bosphorus University on 16 January...
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Thursday, 15 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
TURKEY: State's Security Hijacks The Freedom Of ExpressionDate:02/11/2008 BIA Freedom of Expression Desk has published its Media Observation Report for the period of July-August-September...
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Sunday, 2 November 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
TURKEY: Writer Defends Himself Against Minister's Accusations In A Freedom Of Expression CaseDate:11/12/2008 Temel Demirer, who is on trial under article 301 of the Penal Code (TCK) because of the permission granted by Mehmet Ali ahin, Minister of Justice, said the minister was distorting his words...
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Thursday, 11 December 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Turkey: Inflammatory article seen as freedom of speech by Appeals courtDate:26/10/2009 To the dismay of many in Turkey, the Supreme Court of Appeals has upheld a decision by a lower court finding that a provocative article that appeared in a local daily, targeting pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) members, was within the scope of freedom of expression...
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Monday, 26 October 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
EP lawmakers worry on progress of talks, press freedom in TurkeyDate:13/02/2009 European lawmakers approved Wednesday the draft report on Turkeys progress towards accession, in which they expressed concern over freedom of expression and of the press in the EU-candidate country, as well as the overall progress talks...
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Friday, 13 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Latest wave of detentions and Turkey’s weaknesses Date:19/01/2009 We have to rely on three main perspectives in order to accurately analyze the latest developments in Turkey: democracy, rule of law and freedom of expression...
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Monday, 19 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Turkey restores citizenship of celebrated poetDate:06/01/2009 Turkey restored the citizenship of its most famous poet Monday in a symbolic step meant to show it was addressing criticism of its human rights record in hopes of joining the European Union...
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Tuesday, 6 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Turkey set to end defenses in freedom of speech casesDate:31/08/2010 Under fire for its controversial defense in a high-profile freedom of speech case at the European Court of Human Rights, Turkey will reportedly stop trying to defend itself in such cases and seek friendly settlements instead...
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Tuesday, 31 August 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Turkey to not defend itself at the ECtHR on freedom of expressionDate:01/09/2010 Turkey will not defend itself in cases concerning freedom of expression that have been filed against it at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR)...
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Wednesday, 1 September 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Turkey to not defend itself at the ECtHR on freedom of expressionDate:02/09/2010 Turkey will not defend itself in cases concerning freedom of expression that have been filed against it at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR)...
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Thursday, 2 September 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Turkish author on trial questions country's freedom of expressionDate:05/06/2009 Turkish author Nedim Gursel, presently on trial for his book The Daughters of Allah, says increasing religious conservatism in Turkey may be endangering freedom of expression in the European Union-candidate country...
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Friday, 5 June 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Turkish citizens find new ways to deal with regime's tyrannyDate:18/10/2010 Here's what a Turkish musician enjoys: identifying with conscientious objectors and demanding the judicial system put him on trial...
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Monday, 18 October 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Turkish Court Jails Journalists .Date:07/03/2011 ANKARA, Turkey;A Turkish court on Sunday jailed two leading investigative journalists pending the outcome of a trial into an alleged plot to topple the Islamic-rooted government...
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Monday, 7 March 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Turkish PM Erdo?an rebuffs criticism over press freedomDate:14/04/2011 Mounting a fierce defense of Turkey’s moves to arrest journalists and confiscate an unpublished manuscript, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an told a European body that the written words seized by police posed a serious threat...
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Thursday, 14 April 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Turkish publisher on trial for 'obscenity' given international awardDate:26/10/2010 'A Turkish publisher on trial for publishing a classic erotic novel by French writer Guilliame Apollinaire has been recognised with a special award by the Geneva-based International Publishers Association...
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Tuesday, 26 October 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
YouTube completes a year of being blocked in Turkey Date:06/05/2009 Reporters Without Borders condemns the fact the video-sharing website YouTube has been inaccessible in Turkey for the past 12 months...
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Wednesday, 6 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
EUROPE: Second internet libel is no restriction on newspapersDate:11/03/2009 The European Court of Human Rights held, unanimously, that a court's finding that Times Newspapers Ltd had libelled G...
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Wednesday, 11 March 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
EU body warns Turkey over €1.7bn tax bill for media groupDate:14/10/2009 THE EUROPEAN Commission will warn Turkey today that its record €1...
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Wednesday, 14 October 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
EU progress report criticizes pressure on Turkish pressDate:07/11/2010 Even though there is increasing open and free debate over sensitive issues such as minority rights, press freedom is still a problem in Turkey, according to an advance copy of the European Commission’s annual report about the country...
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Sunday, 7 November 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
TURKEY: BianetDate:13/10/2008 Based in Istanbal, Turkey, Bianet works on a number of projects around freedom of expression and information, including a project which aims to establish a countrywide network in Turkey for monitoring and covering media freedom and independent journalism...
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Monday, 13 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Turhan v TurkeyDate:22/05/2009 Mr Mehmet Talat Turhan is the author of a book titled 'Extraordinary War, Terror and Contra Guerrilla' …
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Friday, 22 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Cox v. TurkeyDate:08/09/2010 Ms. Norma Jeanne Cox, a United States citizen, was deported and banned from re-entering Turkey due to opinions she had expressed to her students…
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Wednesday, 8 September 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Dink v Turkey Date:15/09/2010 An application was brought to the ECHR on behalf of six Turkish nationals: F'rat Dink, his wife, his brother, and his three children…
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Wednesday, 15 September 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Turgay and others v. TurkeyDate:08/10/2010 In January 2008, a Turkish Court suspended for one month the publications of two weekly Turkish newspapers, alleging that these newspapers contained propaganda supporting the crimes of a terrorist organization...
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Friday, 8 October 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Aydin Tatlav v. TurkeyDate:11/11/2010 Mr Erdogan Aydin Tatlav, a Turkish journalist, was convicted of profanation of Islam...
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Thursday, 11 November 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
TurkeyDate:06/04/2009 Domestic, regional and international obligations related to freedom of expression in Turkey...
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Monday, 6 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Kutlular v Turquie Date:22/02/2011 Mehmet Kutlular, journalist and owner of the Yeni Asya Turkish newspaper, brought an action before the European Court of Human Rights against Turkey for alleged violation of Article 10 of the Convention...
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Tuesday, 22 February 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Turkey: The Short Life of the Harakiri MagazineDate: 29/06/2011 "After its second issue, the satiric Harakiri magazine was forced to cease publication due to a monetary fine of TL 150,000 (€ 75,000). Renowned Turkish caricaturists like Bahadir Boysal, Serhat Gürpinar, Behiç Pek or Cezmi Ersöz had contributed to the monthly magazine..
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Wednesday, 29 June 2011Last Modified:
Wednesday, 29 June 2011
Respect and Protection of Freedom of Expression Vital for the Progress of Democracy in TurkeyDate: 12/07/2011 “Despite the progress made by Turkey in recent years regarding free and open debates on previously sensitive issues, the situation of freedom of expression and media freedom remains particularly worrying
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Wednesday, 13 July 2011Last Modified:
Wednesday, 13 July 2011
Turkey: Journalists Sik and Sener Detained for 200 DaysDate: 19 September 2011 " The 200th day of journalists Ahmet Sik and Nedim Sener in prison was marked by a demonstration of the group "Fellow Journalists of Ahmet and Nedim"....
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Monday, 19 September 2011Last Modified:
Monday, 26 September 2011
TAKE ACTION! Sign a petition to free prisoners of opinionDate: 01 November 2011 "After a professor and well-known publisher were arrested as part of a series of unjust arrests, IFEX members are asking supporters to put...
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Tuesday, 1 November 2011Last Modified:
Monday, 7 November 2011
PROTECTION OF JOURNALISTS FROM VIOLENCE CommDH/IssuePaper(2011)3 Issue Papers are commissioned and published by the Commissioner for Human Rights, to contribute to debate and reflection on important current human rights issues. Many of them also include Recommendations by the Commissioner for addressing the concerns identified...
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Tuesday, 17 January 2012Last Modified:
Tuesday, 17 January 2012
Report by Thomas Hammarberg - Freedom of expression and media freedom in Turkey"Summary The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights (‘the Commissioner’) has been closely following human rights developments in Turkey, including those relating to freedom of expression and media freedom which are essential foundations of a democratic society. In this context, he visited Turkey from 27 to 29 April 2011."
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Friday, 27 January 2012Last Modified:
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
Judicial reform package encouraging for journalists but short-sightedDate: 13 February 2012 "Amid ongoing debate that freedom of speech is curtailed in Turkey because of fears that some of the country’s laws may permit anybody to be put in jail, especially journalists...
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Monday, 13 February 2012Last Modified:
Monday, 13 February 2012