EMEP Tunceli Province Chair Hüseyin Tunc has been sentenced for “praising a crime and criminals”. He will appeal at the ECHR.

The State Council has criticised the government's insistence on banning radio and TV broadcasts referring to the PKK attack in Daglica, Hakkari, on 21 October.

Publisher Necati Abay was threatened by student Mert Sahin after making a statement on the murder of Hrant Dink. The student is now on trial.

Recent events at the Northern Iraqi border are only the tip of the iceberg. Police and prosecution have compromised journalists' sources at least ten times in the last three years.

Yeni Asya's editor-in-chief Faruk Cakir is on trial again. The charge against him is that of violating the secrecy of an investigation.

The third quarterly report of the Bia Media Monitoring Desk has appeared, detailing violations of press freedom and the freedom of expression in the months of July, August and September 2007.

The Regional Administrative Court has refused permission to try seven police officers from the Trabzon police department, arguing that they had no involvement in the murder of journalist Hrant Dink.

Ombudsman Baydar points to the increasing dominance of a discourse inciting to war and hate speech among the media. Journalists have to recall their responsibilities.

The Turkish Initiative against Crimes of Thought, also known as Antenna-TR, has drawn international attention to three recent court cases.

Perrier, Vigoureux and de Banville, theree French journalists who were detained during border pass have been released, but their camera is seized as "instrument of crime".

The BIA Media Monitoring Desk publishes regular quarterly and annual reports on the state of press freedom and the freedom of expression in Turkey. The period of July, August and September 2007 has again witnessed many trials for journalists.

According to the Reporters Without Borders yearly list, Turkey ranks 101st out of 169 countries.

The sentencing of Arat Dink and Serkis Seropyan, journalists of the Turkish-Armenian newspaper previously edited by murdered journalist Hrant Dink, has provoked international reaction.

Agos editor Arat Dink, the son of murdered journalist Hrant Dink, and the licence holder of the newspaper, Serkis Seropyan, have been on trial for "degrading Turkishness".

A 19-year old man has been given a two-year suspended sentence for sending an email threat to the Agos newspaper.

The trial of Arat Dink and Sarkis Seropyan under Article 301 continues on 11 October.

In a press release of 5 October, the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) protested against the disappearance of evidence.

The Press Council has announced that the Radio and Televison Supreme Council stopped 39 programmes of 16 channels in September.

Writer Hozatli had been sentenced for claiming that the police has dissidents arrested.

Just before the second hearing of the Dink murder trial, the RSF urged Turkey to investigate the murder fully.