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Items related with "freedom of expression"

Lawyer Kemalettin Gülen faces the court for threatening Hurriyet columnist Ahmet Hakan Coşkun. According to BİA Media Monitoring Report of July ...

Daily Star’s news about the five lieutenants gets General Staff’s ire and formal complaint with the Press Council follows. In return, ...

Caricaturist Özdaba, who criticized Yalçınkaya, Chief Prosecutor of the Supreme Court, by drawing him as an owl wearing a cloak, is ...

The court has fined daily Hurriyet’s reporter and managers for conducting an interview with the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK). They were ...

While caricaturist Şengöz is sentenced to a fine for criticizing Kocaeli’s mayor with his caricatures, a publisher, a translator and a ...

Transsexual singer and celebrity Bülent Ersoy, on trial for alienating people from military service, defended his words by repeating that he ...

The newspaper Alternatif has been banned for publishing the views of Abdullah Öcalan, imprisoned leader of the Kurdish Workers Party, and ...

Ministry of Justice refused to give permission for the trials of Nurettin Demirtaş and Selma Irmak, former DTP party officers, under ...

Ministry of Justice gives permission for the trial of writer Temel Demirer under article 301 for saying there was genocide of ...

Prof. Aslı Tunç of Bilgi University finds it very ironic that the Doğan Media Group, which has been target of constant ...

Writer Murat Coşkun has been arrested for the book he wrote seven years ago. He is accused of having used expressions ...

DİHA journalist Sıddık Güler, DTP’s Çukurca District Head Mehmet Kanar and two more people are on trial for passing information about ...

Police officer Muhittin Zenit, who was on the agenda after Dink’s murder for the telephone conversation he had with one of ...

Kurdish politician Mahmut Alınak is entering the prison for refusing to pay the fine he received for the crime of “praising ...

According to a telephone communication revealed by the Ergenekon investigation, there were two more individuals with Ogün Samast when he killed ...

Youtube, the biggest global video sharing site, has been inaccessible for three months now. Another site, dailymotion.com, is banned, too. ...

The sabotage acts on freedom of expression sites antenna-tr.org and ortakpayda.org, both of which are IFEX members, are taken to the ...

Chief Editor of daily Star Mustafa Karaalioğlu is sued for criticizing the “turban” (headscarf) decision of the Constitutional Court. He is ...

Lawyers of the Dink family in Hrant Dink’s murder case insist that not only Colonel Ali Öz, Captain Metin Yıldız and ...

Istanbul Regional Administrative Court decided there was no need to investigate Chief of Istanbul Police Department Celalettin Cerrah and his subordinates ...

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