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TV Channel Fined For “Degrading” Atatürk

TV Channel Fined For “Degrading” Atatürk

Turkey’s Higher Board of Radio and Television anonymous agreed to fine Kanal A television network for insulting Atatürk during a program called “From Official History to Real History”.

7 November 2014

Constitutional Court to Review KCK Media Case

Constitutional Court to Review KCK Media Case

The attorneys of 46 Kurdish media workers standing trial within Turkey’s KCK Media case submitted a request to a court for the review of the case by Constitutional Court. The request was admitted.

5 November 2014 Elif Akgül

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 Erol Önderoğlu

Judicial Regulation Grip on FoE

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 Erol Önderoğlu

Erol Önderoğlu Receives “İsmail Gaspıralı” Award

Erol Önderoğlu Receives “İsmail Gaspıralı” Award

"İsmail Gaspıralı Bey Journalism and Human Rights Award" has been given to Erol Önderoğlu, Reports Without Borders (RSF) Turkey representative.

24 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 Erol Önderoğlu

“Not Media Morals, But Media Ethics”

“Not Media Morals, But Media Ethics”

Media and Communicators Association kicked off yesterday their second conference in Izmir Economy University with a panel moderated by Haluk Kalafat - bianet’s editor-in-chief.

14 October 2014 Eren Mehmet Şişik

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 Erol Önderoğlu

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.

9 October 2014 Erol Önderoğlu

Police Violence Resisting Journalist Faces Trial

Police Violence Resisting Journalist Faces Trial

A prosecution has been launched against journalist Rahmi Yıldırım under the charge of “resisting a public officer” when he warned a TOMA vehicle not to use disproportionate force against demonstrators.

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.

2 October 2014 Erol Önderoğlu

bianet Did its Job to Report on Male Violence, Court Rules

bianet Did its Job to Report on Male Violence, Court Rules

Emphasizing on the press freedom, a Turkish court rejected the removal request of a bianet news article by a plaintiff who battered his ex-girlfriend.

Letter Reveals Assassination Plot Against Columnists

Letter Reveals Assassination Plot Against Columnists

An unstamped letter delivered at the premisses of T24 news website revealed an assassination plot against prominent columnists Aydın Engin and Murat Belge.

30 September 2014

What Happened to Media Ban After ISIS Released Refugees?

What Happened to Media Ban After ISIS Released Refugees?

While the media ban on the ISIS raid to Turkey’s Consulate in Mosul is still underway, several news stories appeared on the Turkish media regarding the release of hostages.

25 September 2014 Elif Akgül

CNN Türk Removes Enver Aysever’s Critical Show

CNN Türk Removes Enver Aysever’s Critical Show

Initially reduced to one day per week, Enver Aysever’s Critical Show has been completely removed by CNN Türk.

24 September 2014

Twitter to Withhold Account of Today’s Zaman Editor

Twitter to Withhold Account of Today’s Zaman Editor

Twitter reportedly sent a message to Today’s Zaman editor Celil Sağır that his account “will be withheld”. While twitter objected to the ruling court, advocate Odabaşı said “accounts can’t be withheld due to insult or defamation”.

23 September 2014

İbrahim Şahin’s TRT

İbrahim Şahin’s TRT

Assigned as Samsun Governor, TRT’s General Manager İbrahim Şahin is leaving behind his post with a series of controversies. bianet made a compilation.

19 September 2014 Elif Akgül

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 Erol Önderoğlu

IMC TV Lays Off Trans Reporter Demishevich

IMC TV Lays Off Trans Reporter Demishevich

Turkey’s first trans TV reporter Michelle Demishevich has been laid by her employers who said that “they didn’t have anything to do with her gender but she didn’t fit the professional morals”.

17 September 2014 Çiçek Tahaoğlu

New Charges on Journalists in Turkey

New Charges on Journalists in Turkey

Neither insult, nor breach of confidentiality, nor propaganda…It is time for prosecutors to charge journalists with “property damage” and “trespassing”.

15 September 2014

Cumhuriyet Newspaper EIC İbrahim Yıldız Leaves Post

Cumhuriyet Newspaper EIC İbrahim Yıldız Leaves Post

Cumhuriyet newspaper's editor-in-chief İbrahim Yıldız left his post, saying that "it wasn't a goodbye but a flag change".

10 September 2014

Journalists Pledge to Follow Up on Erkan Koyuncu Case

Journalists Pledge to Follow Up on Erkan Koyuncu Case

Journalists Union of Turkey and sports writers gathered on the gate of Galatasaray High School to protest murder of photo journalist Erkan Koyuncu. Having stated that they follow Koyuncu’s case, his colleagues demanded that Football Federation ameliorates working conditions.

3 September 2014 Elif Akgül

Commencement Day For OHO 2014 Graduates

Commencement Day For OHO 2014 Graduates

Having hosted 36 journalist candidates from 33 communication faculties across Turkey and North Cyprus, From School to Newsroom (OHO) program has ended. Participators received their certificates in a cocktail party.

1 September 2014 Melike Futtu

OHO 2014 Kicks Off

OHO 2014 Kicks Off

Held for the eighth time this year, From School to Newsroom (OHO) program kicked off. The program attracts 36 journalist candidates from 36 communication faculties across Turkey and North Cyprus.

Sedat Ergin Becomes Hürriyet’s New EIC

Sedat Ergin Becomes Hürriyet’s New EIC

Hürriyet columnist Sedat Ergin has been appointed as the newspaper’s new editor-in-chief.

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.

18 August 2014 Erol Önderoğlu

"Cevizoğlu is Fired Due to New Regulations"

"Cevizoğlu is Fired Due to New Regulations"

Derya Sazak, editor-in-chief of Yurt Newspaper, denied the claim of that Cevizoğlu is dismissed due to directive of Kılıçdaroğlu and stated that new regulations have been made in TV and channel.

14 August 2014 Elif Akgül

"News is Dead, Let’s Kick Up Our Heels"

"News is Dead, Let’s Kick Up Our Heels"

Prof. Dr. Alankuş commented to bianet that news channels turned into entertainment channels after it was decided that 360/SkyTürk was going to be an entertainment channel as TV8.

14 August 2014 Elif Akgül

CNNTürk Fires Its Social Media Editor

CNNTürk Fires Its Social Media Editor

CNNTürk laid off its social media editor after the removal of a tweet message by Atilla Taş from an article that stirred controversy during the presidential elections coverage.

PM Targets Woman Columnist Again

PM Targets Woman Columnist Again

Columnist Amberin Zaman reacted PM Erdoğan calling her a "nasty woman", saying that she was targeted. "Well, if not others, have I insulted Islam?" she asked in today's article.

Demirtaş Criticizes TRT on TRT

Demirtaş Criticizes TRT on TRT

Presidential candidate Demirtaş criticized TRT’s one-sided broadcast with allegorized remarks in his propaganda speech on TRT. TRT News stopped the broadcast after MHP leader Bahçeli’s TRT criticism.

Ötüken Journal Threatens Agos Newspaper, Fatih Akın

Ötüken Journal Threatens Agos Newspaper, Fatih Akın

Ötüken Journal threatened director Fatih Akın on twitter for shooting a movie on the Armenian Genocide and Agos Newspaper for interviewing him.