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More Attacks on Media as "Security" Bolsters

BIA OCT-NOV-DEC 2014 MEDIA MONITORING REPORT

More Attacks on Media as "Security" Bolsters

22 journalists and 10 distributors entered the year of 2015 behind bars. In the period of October-December, 33 media representatives, 2 websites, 1 Twitter account has been attacked; 43 journalists have been detained.

26 January 2015

Dutch Reporter Acquitted For Taking Photo in Courtroom

Dutch Reporter Acquitted For Taking Photo in Courtroom

Facing 6 months of prison for taking photos during a court hearing, Dutch journalist Mehmet Ülger was acquitted. The case file, on the other hand, didn’t even include photos as evidence.

22 January 2015

Cumhuriyet’s Request Removes Media Ban in Yüksekova Killings

Cumhuriyet’s Request Removes Media Ban in Yüksekova Killings

Upon Cumhuriyet newspaper’s request, Hakkari Peace Court judge removed the media ban related to the killing of three Turkish soldiers in the southeastern district of Yüksekova on October 25. The ban on dead bodies, however, will resume until the end of investigation.

19 December 2014

ECHR: Turkey Discriminated Cemevis

ECHR: Turkey Discriminated Cemevis

The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs’s rejection of paying electricity bills of a cemevi is a “violation of right to religion” and “discrimination”.

2 December 2014

CHP to Take Media Ban to Constitutional Court

CHP to Take Media Ban to Constitutional Court

Republican People’s Party decided to take the media ban on the investigation of four former ministers to the Constitutional Court after Ankara 8th Peace Court Judge Panel declined to uplift the ruling.

2 December 2014

First Media Ban Objection Rejected, Other Objections Pending

First Media Ban Objection Rejected, Other Objections Pending

Ankara 8th Peace Court Judge Panel declined the complaint submitted by Republican People’s Party on the media ban regarding the coverage of corruption probe commission hearings.

28 November 2014

Prosecutor Asked For Damages From Journalist

Prosecutor Asked For Damages From Journalist

After launching a public prosecution for insult charges, prosecutor Zekeriya Öz also filed for non-pecuniary damages from columnist Nedim Şener who wrote an article entitled “Prosecutors who doesn’t know to shame”.

20 November 2014

New Wave of Arrests For Journalists?

New Wave of Arrests For Journalists?

Around 40 media workers have been released from prison in Turkey after the limitation of cautionary arrests terms to 5 years. However, is there a new wave of arrests on the way for journalists who reported on the December 17 Corruption Probe?

19 November 2014

“Use My Confiscated Camera As Evidence”

“Use My Confiscated Camera As Evidence”

DİHA reporter Nazım Daştan was summoned to testify for charges related to “photographing in a military zone” while reporting on the Syrian refugees crossing the border.

13 November 2014

Joint Investigation Hope on Police in Hrant Dink Case

Joint Investigation Hope on Police in Hrant Dink Case

A recent ruling in Hrant Dink case paved the way for a joint investigation against the policemen in Istanbul and Trabzon who were accused of underestimating the murder threats against the Armenian journalist.

7 November 2014

Journalist Sued For Calling Torture Case A “Scandal”

Journalist Sued For Calling Torture Case A “Scandal”

A prosecutor launched an investigation against Milliyet newspaper reporter Kemal Göktaş for covering an article on a comparison between criminal charges of police officers suspected of torture and a relative man of torture victim woman who insulted those police officers.

4 November 2014

Censorship Case Unresolved For 14 Years Due to RTÜK

Censorship Case Unresolved For 14 Years Due to RTÜK

Despite ECHR and higher court rulings canceling the 90-day suspension of Özgür Radyo’s broadcasting, Turkey’s RTÜK insisted, leaving the case unresolved for 14 years.

4 November 2014

ECHR Considers Statute of Limitations As “Torture”

ECHR Considers Statute of Limitations As “Torture”

The European Court of Human Rights considered the statute of limitations ruling in Demirtaş case as ill-treatment and torture, convicted Turkey.

29 October 2014

Judicial Regulation Grip on FoE

BIA MONITORING JUL-SEPT 2014 MEDIA MONITORING

Judicial Regulation Grip on FoE

19 journalist entered the month of October in prison in Turkey. On the other hand, 21 journalists faced violence.

26 October 2014

Student Journalist Arrested Due to One Statement

Student Journalist Arrested Due to One Statement

Mensur Küçükkarga, a journalism major and reporter, has been arrested upon an eyewitness statement that he has attended a Kobane protest in in Erzurum province.

23 October 2014

“Suruç is Not Safe, I Will Seek Asylum From Western Countries”

“Suruç is Not Safe, I Will Seek Asylum From Western Countries”

Even though 97 detained refugees from Kobane have been released by Turkish authorities, individuals like Perwer Mıhamed Ali, an interpreter, fear that Suruç is not safe. “I will seek asylum from Western countries,” he told bianet.

22 October 2014

“Pouring Paint on Atatürk Bust is Within FoE”

“Pouring Paint on Atatürk Bust is Within FoE”

The European Court of Human Rights found it “excessive” that Murat Vural was convicted to 22.5 years of prison and removal of his electoral rights for pouring paint on Atatürk busts.

21 October 2014

ECHR Convicts Questioning Without Kurdish Interpreter

ECHR Convicts Questioning Without Kurdish Interpreter

The European Court of Human Rights convicted Turkey in the case of Baytar where the case concerned the absence of an interpreter during police custody.

14 October 2014

TRT Protestors, 3 Journalists Released Despite Resuming Attacks

TRT Protestors, 3 Journalists Released Despite Resuming Attacks

Police released 25 women demonstrators and 3 active-duty journalists who were detained within protests to bring attention to Kobane. However, DİHA reporter Çiçek and Azadiya Welat worker Bağdu were assaulted.

14 October 2014

Detained Kobane People Attacked With Tear Gas

Detained Kobane People Attacked With Tear Gas

261 individuals from Kobane who have been detained and kept in a sports complex in Suruç district faced police tear gas as they attempted to break out their captivity. Detainees include around 20 journalists.

13 October 2014

Three German Journalists Released in Diyarbakır

Three German Journalists Released in Diyarbakır

Three German journalists who have detained last night in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır for commanding 20 protestors have been released. They will testify today and attempt to retain their confiscated equipment.

13 October 2014

Hard to Be a Journalist Under Curfew

Hard to Be a Journalist Under Curfew

Various journalists spoke up on their experience regarding yesterday’s curfew in Diyarbakır province as well as other districts in Turkey’s Kurdish-populated cities.

University President Complains, Restricts News Column

University President Complains, Restricts News Column

Turkey’s Telecommunication Authorities issued a restriction on columnist Ezgi Başaran’s critical article about universities on Radikal newspaper website upon a request by the president of Istanbul Technical University.

27 Acquitted, 1 Convicted of Insult in Twitter Case

27 Acquitted, 1 Convicted of Insult in Twitter Case

İzmir 22nd Assize Court ordered the acquittal of 27 out of 28 defendants charged with “igniting public to violating laws and insulting” during the Gezi Resistance.

23 September 2014

Attack on AA’s Diyarbakır Reporter Condemned

Attack on AA’s Diyarbakır Reporter Condemned

Aydın Bolkan from Free Journalists Organization based in Diyarbakır condemned the attack on Anatolia Agency reporters during the Kurdish-teaching school sealing crisis, saying that “they didn’t accept the violence and they were annoyed”.

18 September 2014

ECHR Warns Turkey: Religion Classes Can’t Ignore Alevis

ECHR Warns Turkey: Religion Classes Can’t Ignore Alevis

Issuing a verdict on the application of 14 families with Alevi background, ECHR ruled that “Turkish education system must have a basis respecting the families’ beliefs”.

18 September 2014

BIA Media Monitoring Report - Full Text

BIA MEDIA MONITORING REPORT APRIL-JUNE 2014

BIA Media Monitoring Report - Full Text

Murdered journalists, jailed journalists, recent releases, attacks, threats, impediments, prosecutions and trials; ‘’defamation’’, personal rights and complaints, bans, closures, seizures, PM, ECHR, RTÜK and Gezi Resistance…

18 September 2014

News Stories on Children Face Monetary Penalty

News Stories on Children Face Monetary Penalty

The court opened 14 cases against Cumhuriyet Newspaper administratives İbrahim Yıldız and Aykut Küçükkaya and sentenced them to pay 200,000 liras under the claim that they reveal identities of children in the news pieces. Most of the children faced the police violence.

The Media’s 3 Months: 186 Journalists Fired

BIA APRIL-JUNE 2014 MEDIA MONITORING REPORT

The Media’s 3 Months: 186 Journalists Fired

23 journalists entered the month of July in prison. 15 new cases were filed based on the TMK in April-June 2014; 38 people were convicted in total to 2 months 15 days in prison and 277,400 TL in fines for insulting the Prime Minister. 54 reporters were attacked. The ECHR gave a penalty of 160,000 TL in fines.

Justice for Dink Left to Whim of the Defendant

Justice for Dink Left to Whim of the Defendant

The case of journalist Hrant Dink’s murder seven 7 ago encountered a roadblock when the court failed to obtain defendant at large Ahmet İskender’s opinion on the Supreme Court of Appeals’ decision. The case has been postponed to October 30.

BIA Media Monitoring and Freedom of Expression Report - Full Text

BIA MEDIA MONITORING OCT-NOV-DEC 2013

BIA Media Monitoring and Freedom of Expression Report - Full Text

Journalist murders, jailed journalists, releases, attacks, threats, impediments, investigations and prosecutions; ‘’defamation’’, personal complaints, bans, closures and seizings, ECHR, RTÜK and Gezi Resistance...

Turkey to Pay 38K Euros For Silencing Press

Turkey to Pay 38K Euros For Silencing Press

The European Court of Human Rights ordered Turkey to pay damages to applicants from Evrensel and Dema Nu newspapers for violating the freedom of expression.