After 8 months TKP/ML member Musa Doğan was released from his sentence to life imprisonment because of health reasons. Sweden has granted asylum to Doğan.

The Court of Appeals approved the acquittal of a specialist sergeant who killed a civilian when he fired his gun into the crowd of a demonstration.

According to the quarterly report of the BİA Media Monitoring Desk published for April, May and June 2009, a total of 125 people, 57 of them journalists, were on trial in 80 cases for expressing their opinions during that period.

Five people are tried together with Colonel Temizöz and Abdülhakim Güven regarding a number of unsolved murders. Güven claimed that his statement made under the name of "Ball-Point Pen" are invalid and that he signed that statement without knowing its content.

Refugees kept in a refugee camp of the Aliens Department in the Istanbul district of Fatih/Kumkapı revolted to draw attention to their poor living conditions.

With a decision from June this year the Beyoğlu Public Prosecutor's Office now blocked access to MySpace and Last FM, two of the world's biggest sites for socializing and music-sharing. Both artists and internet users voiced their disapproval of the decision.

Radio journalist Gürbüz was released from detention in her second hearing. Gürbüz had been detained after an operation against the Turkish communist party. Her trial is to be continued.

Out of a total of 97,300 cases in the hands of the ECHR 11.4 percent are from Turkey. 1,676 out of 1939 cases from Turkey are concerned with violations of the European Convention. In 50 years only 37 decisions taken by Turkish courts were justified by the ECHR.

The court convicted journalist Sevda Turaçlar from the Turkish 'Ekspres' newspaper of insulting president Gül because of publishing an "ignoble" anecdote regarding the president. The sentence of almost 1 year imprisonment is suspended for a period of 5 years. Turçlar declared not to lodge an appeal.

The Malatya Public Prosecutor's Office decided to close the investigation into the murder case of Vedat Aydın because of "lack of jurisdiction". After 18 years the file has been returned to Diyarbakır now "where the incident started".

The ECHR decided in favor of Eğitim-Sen union members Kaya and Seyhan. The union members applied to the ECHR after they had encountered administrative and judicial pressure because of their participation in a one day strike.

Cumhuriyet newspaper claimed two journalist were illegally wiretapped related to an operation concerning journalist Mustafa Balbay, who is a detained defendant under charge of "membership of the Ergenekon terror organization". TGC chairman Erinç said that this is a deprivation of the right of freedom of speech for everybody living in Turkey.

NGOs, mostly ignored by the media, and independent journalists from Northern Cyprus establish a common internet portal which will be operational in August 2010. Hugh Pope from ICG and Erhan Üstündağ from bianet participated in a conference about the project in Nicosia last weekend.

The court prosecutor called for the acquittal of Adnan Demir, director of Taraf newspaper. He is accused of violating a publishing ban because of reporting about an attack on the Aktütün Police Station. The case will be continued on 20 October.

Journalist Baransu is accused of "insulting the military" because of publishing news about the "Anti-Reactionary Plan" against AKP and the religious Fetullah Gülen movement. Now his file has been taken to the Ministry of Justice. The General Staff announced that they opened a trial against Baransu.

According to Journalist Organizations TGC and ÇGD, the heavy fine imposed by the Turkish tax authorities on Doğan Media Group is aimed to silence "criticism of political power" and to bring the group's course "closer to the government".

Head of the Police Intelligence Department Akyürek filed a complaint against journalist Kemal Göktaş after he has already taken journalist Nedim Şener to court. Both pressmen published books about the Hrant Dink murder, voicing their critical concerns about the handling of the case.

Journalist Yakup Önal was attacked when he took photos of a bus that had tipped over after an accident in the Tekirdağ district of Şarköy. The journalist is not able to work because of pain as a result from the assault. The prosecutor released the three suspects after he took their statements.

The Diyarbakır prosecutor's office decided to drop the trial against the parents of 10-year-old M.Ö. and Mayor Abdullah Demirbaş. With the support of Demirbaş the girl had given Kurdish lessons at home.

The Diyarbakır court decided not to release journalist Vedat Kurşun from detention. Kurşun is trialed under charges of "campaigning PKK propaganda". His lawyer Özen announced that Kurşun is trialed for his topics being picked up by other national newspapers.