Turkey is giving mixed signals regarding its intentions about the subject of cultural diversity. While not hurrying to ratify the Cultural ...»

At the 28th IPA Publishers Congress in Seoul, Korea, Ragip Zarakolu was voted recipient of the 2008 IPA Freedom to Publish ...»

Tiryaki and İrem from the Democratic Society Party are sent to prison for voicing the slogan “End The War” during the ...»

Journalist Arat Dink and imprisoned Burmese monk U Gambira are among the winners of Index on Censorship's 2008 Freedom of Expression ...»

The accused gendarmerie Veysel Şahin on trial in Trabzon makes a deposition for Dink’s murder trial in İstanbul. He says they ...»

In the sixth hearing of the murder trial in Malatya yesterday, Cuma Özdemir, Abuzer Yıldırım and Salih Gürler blamed Emre Günaydın ...»

In a TV show during the Northern Iraq military operation, the famous singer Ersoy demanded “solution instead of death” and Bakırköy ...»

The conscientious objector Savda, still in prison, is declared exempt from military service to prevent the discussion of conscientious objection. Savda ...»

The president Gül ratifies the revised 301, which now forbids denigrating the Turkish Nation rather than Turkishness. The permission to open ...»

The Initiative Against Thought Crime restarts its activities as a reaction to the increased number of law suits targeting people who ...»

The court accuses the family of Baran Tursun, who was shot by a police office for not stopping his car, for ...»

The Supreme Court of Appeals confirms the acquittal of Prof. Dr. Kaboğlu and Prof. Dr. Oran, who were on trial for ...»

Journalists do not draw a picture of a “contemporary” country, when it comes to the freedom of the press and the ...»

BİA Media Monitoring Report showed that in the first quarter of 2008, 186 people, 71 of whom are journalist, were tried ...»

DISK president Çelebi tells that they will take the May Day prohibitions and the police violence, what they call “state terror”, ...»

Unions ended the May Day activity in Şişli following the excessive violence by the police forces. DİSK president Çelebi said that ...»

The Turkish Parliament passes the revised 301 with the new expressions of “Turkish Nation” and “the State of the Turkish Republic” ...»

Trade unions from DİSK, KESK and TÜRK-İŞ confederations, professional organizations and political formations will meet in Şişli and march to Taksim. ...»

The DISK lawyer Okcan indicates that the court rulings disprove the governor Güler. “Taksim is open to the soccer celebrations, police ...»

PM Erdoğan says yes to a May Day press statement and a wreath-laying ceremony in Istanbul's central Taksim Square, but no ...»