Afrika newspaper editor-in-chief Sener Levent and editor Memduh Ener released from prison; progress in case of journalist Lutlu Adali murdered in 1996.

On September 20-24 in the vicinity of Turkish Kusadasi town the final third meeting of the Armenian, Azerbaijan and Turkish journalists under Azerbaijan-Armenia-Turkey: Journalist Initiative-2002 project was held.

RSF expressed its concern about pressures being exerted on the widow of murdered journalist Adali, apparently from those close to the authorities trying to get her to drop a lawsuit against the government connected with his death in Cyprus, North part.

Journalist Ahmet Un of Weekly Firatta Yasam in Diyarbakir reported kidnapped and threatened with death. RSF secretary- general Robert Menard asked guarantee the security of the journalist.

Journalist Kizilyaprak of the closed-down Ozgur Bakis, will apply to the attorney generalship. He demands to be retried under the deregulated terrorism law. The journalist faces prison sentence since October 2001.

Journalism and The Human Rights Challenge to Turkey. Report of the IFJ / EFJ Mission to Turkey in April 26-30 April, 2002: Putting Union Rights and Press Freedom on the agenda.

Its thought that the EU-reforms are positive yet inadequate. According to the local media organizations, it depends on implementation. Kara from Datca, Bingol from Diyarbakir, Toprak from Mersin and Kucuk from Edremit discuss the new journalism.

Sener Levent, the director of the Afrika newspaper published in TRNC, and writer Memduh Ener, were arrested and sent to prison because of an article called Who is the Biggest Traitor? Cypriot journalists union criticized the arrests.

RSF today voiced its outrage at the Six-month jail sentences imposed on two journalists of the Nicosia daily newspaper Afrika, Sener Levent and Memduh Ener, for insulting the President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Rauf Denktash.

Ayse Nur Zarakolu was a publisher. She got several awards and faced with trials and sentences. She passed away in January 2002. She was also publisher of Omer Asans book Pontos Kulturu (The Culture of Pontos). The books banned. Here is the story...

Ferit Demir, the only journalist in the region, has been working under emergency rule for the last 12 years. He has been detained three times, received threats and got kidnapped by the PKK during the period. Emergency rule was lifted in Tunceli last week.

Keskin, charged with separatist propaganda for publishing a journalist Randals book about Turkeys Kurdish minority. population, was sentenced to a six-month prison sentence, which the court converted to a fine of about 500 dollars.

The BIA Legal Units January-June 2002 report encompasses more than 50 incidents and 84 media instituations. 1 journalist imprisoned, 9 journalists are on trial, 3 convicted, 9 acquitted; 6 attacked. RTUK banned televisions and radios 2921 days.

RSF: Unpunished killers of journalists;21 countries accused and 9 others under surveillance. Turkey, Georgia, Indonesia, Mexico, Mozambique, Nigeria , Philippines, Serbia-Montenegro, and Sri Lanka are under surveillance.

Publisher Öztoprak was acquitted of charges of promoting separatism by publishing Mehmed Uzun book,Generating a Language. Publisher Abdullah Keskin faces imminent imprisonment.

Writer, publisher and political activist Pekdemir seeks asylum following three-year and nine-month prison sentence.Turkish Penal Code, for supporting an illegal organisation, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), in his book (Is the State a Revenger?.

Armenian, Azerbaijani and Turkish journalists held a meeting in Ankara.

International Federation of Journalists protests refusal for accreditation of Kurdish media to the EU Seville summit.

Journalist Horuz sentenced to 15 years imprisonment. Daily Cumhuriyet managing editor Yildiz was detained, for no apparent reason, at an Ankara hotel during the night of 14 to 15 June. He was held for questioning an for 12 hours, then released.

"They raped me under custody." Asiye Zeybek Güzel could only pronounce this truth when she could appear before the court 8 months of after her arrest. She had been unable to voice this bitter experience neither to her husband nor to her relatives, friends and lawyers.