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RTUK Suspends a Radio for Kurdish Broadcasts

RTUK ordered Radio Dunya off the air for a month for broadcasting a program in Kurdish. Ozic said the recent reforms in Turkey allowed Kurdish broadcasts.

Turkey - Media 2002 From RSF

Despite the announcement of democratic reforms prosecutions for beliefs and opinions are still systematically and severely punished by virtue of a repressive legislative arsenal aimed at protecting the state against Kurds, Islamists and far left.

Kara Sentenced to a Year in Prison, Fined

Kara, who stood trial for five separate cases, was sentenced to a year in prison. The court also handed Kara a fine of 20 billion Turkish lira. The journalist was acquitted in one of the cases and another trial was postponed till June 16.

BIA Local Media Report 2002: Arrests, Attacks

According to a report by BIAs Legal Branch; 2 journalists were arrested in 2002, 21 are still being tried, and 12 were attacked. RTUK ordered TVs and radios off the air for 2,921 days. BIA provides legal assistance to media organizations since 2000.

Displaced Persons in the Caucasus and Turkey

U.S. Representative Cardin and Human Rights Watch Turkey Researcher Jonathan Sugden on the occasion of the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) Hearing on Internally Displaced Persons this past Tuesday.

Police is Responsible if Something Happens.

In 1996, policemen, who claimed his daughter had escaped to the mountains, raped Kaze Ozlu with sticks. Ozlu took his case to the ECHR. He is now being pressured to back down.

Generals Money Goes to Jailed Journalists

Former army chief of staff gives up any idea of appeal in lawsuit over predator photo. The court ordered Gen. Kivrikoglu to pay costs and 2,000 euros in damages to RSF. It hands over this sum to Benli, Evcimen, Horuz and Sirin who are in prison.

Human Rights Situation Poor Report Says

Developments have not been positive in the implementation of human rights and particularly of preventing torture, in the first quarter of 2003 Human Rights Association (IHD) report says: 183 people have been subject to torture and ill treatment.

Situation of the Media in the North Cyprus

Three forms of political terror,no one `responsible`, political terror, `part of life`, laws concerning the media in the North, two journalists jailed, death threats, cases against journalists, foreign journalists expelled, Psychological campaigns.

Journalist Kara Stands Trial for Five Cases

Kara, the owner of the newspaper Datca News, stood trial for 5 cases. The prosecutor demanded Karas acquittal in the case he was being sued for wrong address declaration. The hearings were postponed because lawyer Apaydin was not present in court.

18 April 2003 Erol Önderoğlu

Chief Prosecutor Rejects Objections by Police

Turkeys chief prosecutor rejected a demand by the six police officers sentenced for torturing teenagers in the Manisa Trial, to overturn the sentencing decisions. The prosecutor sent the file to Manisa to have the decision enforced.

TRT Cannot be Compared to BBC

During the Communications Council, the Internet Commission called for the establishing of an Information Technology Ministry. There cant be public broadcasting if there is no autonomy, said the Public Broadcasting and TRT Commission.

27 February 2003 Erol Önderoğlu

European Reaction on Özgüdens Indictment

As Council of Europe was giving the case as an example of violation of freedom of expression in Turkey, Belgian Foreign Minister declares: I share your concern and regret noting that Turkey still carries out lawsuits against the freedom of expression.

17 February 2003

RSF Wins Court Case Against Gen. Kivrikoglu

Türkeys former Chief of Staff Gen. Kivrikoglu sued RSF after his picture appeared along with 37 other predators of press freedom in an exhibition the organization staged last May in the main hall of the St. Lazare railway station in Paris.

30 January 2003

Journalist Horuz Sentenced to 15 Years

Memik, the general director of the Worker Villager newspaper, is convicted of being a member of an illegal organization. He is currently in the Sincan F-type prison. According to Memik there is a plot against him.

24 January 2003 Erol Önderoğlu

Media:Little Pay Increase, High Unemployment

Two thousand and 482 journalists were laid off in 2002, in Turkey, said a report by the Work Life Commission of the CGD. The report drew attention to violations of a press law no: 212, and accounted for journalist Sinan Karas situation.

23 January 2003 Erol Önderoğlu

PM Should Explain Who Gets Money from the US

Eksi, head of the Press Council, called on Premier Gul to explain who and what he was talking about by saying, Media organizations in Turkey get money from the U.S., who reserved this money to win support for its war.

17 January 2003

More Books Banned Than 2001

In 2002, 67 books, 35 publishers and 48 writers were accused. 14 of whom were acquitted. Yet 10 books and their writers and publishers were sentenced, Turkeys Publishers Association Says...

30 December 2002 Ragıp Zarakolu

Movie is Free, Director is Being Tried

Handan Ipekci, the director of the movie, Big Man Small Love, is being charged with insulting the states security forces. The Council of State had reversed the court decision to ban the movie off the screens.

27 December 2002 Semra Çelebi

Acquittal and Trial for Banned Publication

Eren, provincial head of HAK-PAR and the Diyarbakir representative of the Dema Nu newspaper, was acquitted along with three other party members. They were being charged with disseminating propaganda for a terrorist organizaton.

27 December 2002 Erol Önderoğlu

DGM Convicted Demir and Feyzioglu

State Security Court convicted publisher Demir and writer Feyzioglu for disseminating separatist propaganda, by writing and publishing a book called Ibo-Ibrahim Kaypakkaya.

20 December 2002 Erol Önderoğlu

Journalists: Press Freedom and Job Security

TGC chair Erinc, TGS chair Soner, and Yarkadas from CGD and communication jurist İlkiz demand job security and amendments in Media Law, RTUK, TMY and TCK on the basis of press freedoms. They also draw attention to the importance of implementation.

19 December 2002 Erol Önderoğlu

Ozturk: State is Protecting the Torturers

The state is not fighting against torture, said lawyer Ozturk. As evidence of the ongoing torture, he presented the application by children to the IHD. The children claimed they were tortured after the police killed one of their friends mistakenly.

4 December 2002 Erol Önderoğlu

Journalists will be Tried from France

The editor-in-chief Erol Ozkoray and writer Nur Dolay of the Idea Politic magazine will make their depositions in writing from France. The case was brought against the journalists based on the General Staffs demand.

3 December 2002 Erol Önderoğlu

Journalists Await Decisions by Supreme Court

Caricaturists Ayrancioglu and Saatci; Superonlines former editor Ak; Turkish Daily News writer Bekdil and director Cevik; Gun TVs former owner Bingol and many other journalists, are awaiting the decisions by the supreme court of appeals post-EU reforms.

18 November 2002 Erol Önderoğlu

Novelist Altan Acquitted in 2 Cases out of 4

Aktuel weekly magazine columnist Altan and editor Tunali were acquitted in 2 cases under charges of insulting the army. The other two trials were postponed because the General Staff did not issue a response about the Andic Document.

18 November 2002 Erol Önderoğlu

Former Editor Sentenced To 12 And a Half Year

When the sentence was announced, Zeybek, a former editor of a radical newspaper was in Sweden to receive the PEN Tucholsky Award, granted annually to writers who have been persecuted, threatened or are in exile.

18 October 2002

TRNC Expells 10 Spanish Journalists

RSF:A group of 16 Spanish people, including the 10 journalists, were expelled to the Greek-Cypriot side of the island by police and foreign ministry press officials after conferring with NGOs, the media and other civil society groups in the north.

18 October 2002

Decision in Manisa Children Torture Case

A Turkish court sentenced ten police officers to prison for a total of 1020 months for charges of torturing 16 teenagers. The time for the trial, which has been going on for seven years, will be up in June 2003.

17 October 2002

3 Journalists Accused for Insulting the Army

RSF: Turkey breaks commitments to European Union by charging journalists Ozguden, Karaca and Sert with insulting the army. More than 50 journalists were brought before the Turkish courts in 2001 in connection with what they had written.

17 October 2002

RSF Sued for Harming Turkish Ex-Army Chief

A complaint by Turkeys former armed forces chief of staff, Gen. Hüseyin Kivrikoglu, that Reporters Without Borders (RSF) harmed his public image will be heard by a Paris court on 16 October.

14 October 2002

EU-Reforms Could Not Save the Journalist

The court refused to retry journalist Kizilyaprak. The judge decided that the EU-reforms did not alter Kizilyapraks conviction. The journalist is facing a prison sentence. The case is taken to the ECHR.

10 October 2002 Erol Önderoğlu