37 reporters and academicians participated in the Seminar on Reporting on Childrens Rights by the BİA² and UNICEF. They agreed that the media plays an important role in the correct representation of the child in society.

Turkeys public TRT television broadcast in languages other than Turkish is criticized for its stereotype content. The Kirmanchi Zaza Circassian Arabic and Bosnian news broadcasts remain identical and little emphasis is laid on cultural differences.

32 local reporters and womens rights activists met at the BIA² training and discussed womens rights and reporting on womens issues. They focused on violence against women and honor murders and said We will bring womens rights into local reporting.

Seventy-one reporters and NGO representatives from seven provinces attended the BIA² Seminar. The participants criticized womens misrepresentation and inadequate representation in the media and called for effective reporting.

Reporters Without Borders has released the 2005 World Press Freedom Index report ranking 167 countries according to the level of freedom of the press. Turkey has been ranked 98th, fifteen places higher than last year.

The Human Rights Foundations Batman Director calls attention to F-Type prisons and solitary confinement: These prisons are contrary to fundamental rights and freedoms.

BIA² organized its third seminar on Womens Rights and Womens Rights Reporting in Eskisehir. Educators and media employees from the provinces of Eskisehir, Bilecik and Kirsehir attended the seminar.

A public suit has been filed against Cumhuriyet newspaper publisher İlhan Selçuk, editor-in-chief Mehmet Sucu, and reporter Alper Turgut, for not paying a USD 50 thousand fine levied against them for publishing a report called Acquittal for Torture.

Human rights groups IHD and Mazlumder are concerned about the intensifying recent clashes in the southeast and Kurdish areas, and are campaigning for an end to military operations and the replacement of violence with political solutions.

Reporters from 31 local media in Adiyaman, Ardahan, Diyarbakir, Elazig, Erzincan, Gaziantep, Hakkari, Igdir, Malatya, Mardin, Mus, Siirt, Sivas, Sanliurfa, Sirnak, Midyat, Nizip and Van discussed Womens Reporting.

The proposed changes to the Anti-Terror Law carry penalties of three-year prison terms for publication of the statements of a terrorist organization and terrorist organization propaganda. The changes could result in ECHR lawsuits.

DIHA reporter Duru was arrested while he was investigating allegations about cannabis planting. The local court has rejected his demand to be released. His camera and tape recorder have not been returned so that the evidence is not fiddled with.

Sanar Yurdatapan, the spokesperson for the Initiative Against Thought Crimes, criticized the court for deciding to have police officers bring writer Orhan Pamuk to the hearing. This decision was totally unnecessary, said Yurdatapan.

ECHR handed Turkey a fine of 166,000 dollars in damages last year, in 17 cases about freedom of expression, fair trials and journalist deaths. In the first six months of this year, ECHR has fined Turkey 370,000 dollars in damages.

Reporters Without Borders protests against the arrest of journalists who covered the release of Turkish infantryman private Kirandi. The legitimate and necessary fight against terrorism can never justify such violations of press freedom, the RSF said.

BİA2s second quarterly media monitoring report includes rights violations within the new legal setting of the new Penal Code, the Anti-Terrorism Act, RTUKs members election by the Parliament; and discusses union existence in the media sector.

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Bogatekin, the owner of the Gerger Firat newspaper was acquitted in which he was tried for writing an article.In another trial, he was handed a fine of 1,000 YTL for failing to inform the prosecutors office about the type of his publication within 30 day

Yildirim is faced with up to three years in prison for criticizing some generals relations with holding companies, in an article published on www.sansursuz.com. In a second investigation opened against the writer after the article was published in Sol.

Columnist Dilipaks flat has been sequestrated after he failed to pay a high fine. The Military Supreme Court has overturned a lower military courts decision to send a trial, in which he is charged with damaging juniority-seniority relations, ...