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Kurdish woman activist arrested in Turkey | Alliance for Kurdish Rights

13 Feb 2012 More Options Tweet Kurdish woman activist arrested in Turkey by Ruwayda Mustafah Rabar Photo: Mizgin Müjde Arslan Hundreds of Kurdish ac

Who Is The Terrorist? | Mideast Youth

11 Feb 2012 No Comments More by this Author Who Is The Terrorist? by Xende Biradosti Contrary to what the Turkish government would like you to believ

Turkish General staff knew Uludere victims were not PKK rebels | Alliance for Kurdish Rights

03 Feb 2012 More Options Tweet Turkish General staff knew Uludere victims were not PKK rebels by Ruwayda Mustafah Rabar Civilians killed in an airstr

"Kill All The Lawyers": Stifling Dissent in Turkey | Human Rights Now - Amnesty International USA Blog

As worrisome as arrests of Journalists in Turkey are, the current practice of imprisoning attorneys is cause for alarm.

New wave of arrests | ANF ENGLISH

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Kurdish teenager jailed four times in Turkey since 2011 | Alliance for Kurdish Rights

03 Feb 2012 More Options Tweet Kurdish teenager jailed four times in Turkey since 2011 by Ruwayda Mustafah Rabar 17-year old S.T A Kurdish teenager w

30 Kurdish students arrested in association with KCK | Alliance for Kurdish Rights

Thirty Kurdish students have been arrested in association with being a member of an illegal organisation and organising activities on behalf of an illegal organisation.

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Kurdish reporter’s arrest over weekend is the latest in wave of detentions

Turkish journalists are very frightened – but we must fight this intimidation | Ece Temelkuran | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Ece Temelkuran: A journalist's murder and jailing of two others is an attempt to silence the media – but it makes me more determined to speak

Jody Sabral: Turkey's Censorship Puzzle

Turkey has surpassed the likes of China, Iran and Russia, when it comes to the number of journalists/authors in prison, many of whom are being held without charge.

English :: Censorship in Prisons - Bianet

Censorship in Prisons

"A book is not a bomb" - Reporters Without Borders

Reporters Without Borders urged the Turkish government today to prove it supports the media freedom it proclaimed during the recent election campaign. The appeal came in a report called “Media and justice in Turkey – mistrust and repression”...

Turkey Protests New Internet Filters

Disgruntled Turkish Internet users marched through the streets in more than 30 cities on Sunday to protest a new Internet filter system that they consider censorship.

TV satellite operator usurps court’s prerogative to silence Kurdish TV station - Reporters Without Borders

Reporters Without Borders is stunned by Paris-based TV satellite operator Eutelsat's decision yesterday to stop carrying the broadcasts of Copenhagen-based Kurdish TV station Roj TV on the grounds that a Danish court found it guilty of supporting...

ERSU ABLAK - Why censorship is easy in Turkey

Censorship is easy in Turkey because one is sure to get away with it. No one in the history of this country has ever paid a price for imposing censorship.

Why censorship is easy in Turkey

Censorship is easy in Turkey because one is sure to get away with it.

Turkey: Art exhibition caught in censorship debate | Index on Censorship

Turkey: Art exhibition caught in censorship debate 13 Jan 2012 Share An art exhibition in Turkey has been cancelled by organisers after municipal off

Internet Censorship: Why Turkey Internet Users Should Use a VPN

Turkey has had public access to the Internet since 1993 and while the country’s government has implemented both legal and institutional reforms in the hopes of becoming a member of the European Union (EU), the country has also shown itself to be...

Uludere: Civilian Deaths and a Culture of Silence in Turkey | Human Rights Now - Amnesty International USA Blog

Will the Turkish government fully investigate a massacre at the Turkey-Iraq border in late December?

Turkey Arrests Journalists in Wave of Media Repression - TIME

Turkey, a so-called beacon of modernity in the Muslim world, is rounding up reporters who investigate the government's ties to religious organizations

Internet in Turkey: Safe or Censored? , 31 December 2011 Saturday 9:54

The much debated internet filtering system, or safe internet, which appeared as access limiting packages for Turkey's internet users last month, continues to spark debate over questions of censorship, privacy and personal freedoms.

Turkey: opposition leader also investigated for 'insults' - Turkey - ANSAMed.it

A Turkish public prosecutor has opened a case against the leader of the country's main CHP opposition party, Mr Kemal Kilicdaroglu, because of statements made in November in which he compared a famous prison near Istanbul to a ''concentration camp''.

Trying to get at the truth of Turkey's jailed journalists | Media | guardian.co.uk

Roy Greenslade considers the dispute over whether the imprisonment of journalists in Turkey amounts to a genuine assault on press freedom

Turkey: “Free journalists” challenge courts | Index on Censorship

Turkey: “Free journalists” challenge courts 06 Jan 2012 Share The trial of several journalists accused of being involved in an alleged plot to ov

Turkey: Erdogan represses press freedom, NYT - Politics - ANSAMed.it

Turkey: Erdogan represses press freedom, NYT, U.S. daily underlines arrests and financial machinations, , Politics, Ansa

Vigil for freedom of the press | ANF ENGLISH

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CPJ condemns journalist arrests in Turkey - Committee to Protect Journalists

Prime Minister Erdoğan: The Committee to Protect Journalists is writing to condemn the arrests of as many as 29 journalists in raids on Tuesday as well as the ongoing media repression that has earned Turkey a reputation as one of the world’s...

Turkish Police Arrest Journalists - WSJ.com

Twenty-six journalists were among the suspects arrested on Tuesday in a crackdown on an organization tied to Turkey's outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party, or PKK, a media watchdog said, heightening criticism of the country's record on press freedom.

Turkey: Crucial Problems: Detained Journalists and Censorship | Center for International Media Assistance

Bianet.org By Polen Artar OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Mijatovic paid her first official visit to Turkey to talk to government officials about media freedom. Prior to the talks she attended a panel of the Ankara University Faculty of...

OSCE media freedom representative expresses concern over detention of journalists and censorship - IFEX

OSCE media freedom representative expresses concern over detention of journalists and censorship - IFEX

Kurdish singer jailed for singing Kurdish song | Alliance for Kurdish Rights

ARS (DİHA) – Kurdish singer, Engin Ancı, was imprisoned for singing Kurdish song in Digor, a district of Kars.

English :: Crucial Problems: Detained Journalists and Censorship - Bianet

Crucial Problems: Detained Journalists and Censorship

Hard times for media in Erdogan's Turkey| Reuters

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - He has been feted in Arab states as the midwife of Islamic democracy. At home in Turkey, he strides the political stage unchallenged, a powerful army tamed, a hostile judiciary subdued,

Hevallo. Turkey and The Kurdish Question.: Why Is the UK Media Ignoring the Serious Suppression of the Kurds in Turkey?

English :: Internet Filtering System Combined with Censorship - Bianet

Internet Filtering System Combined with Censorship

MUSTAFA AKYOL - Why dozens of Turkish journalists are in jail

Political observers who follow Turkish democracy often get confused with the contradictory phenomena they face.

Herdict Blog » Blog Archive » Controversial Turkish Filtering Measure Goes Live

Have you ever come across a web site that you could not access and wondered, ”Am I the only one?” Herdict Web aggregates reports of inaccessible sites, allowing users to compare data to see if innacessibility is a shared problem. By...

The Istanbulian: Am I the First Target of Turkey's Internet Filter

Censorship through the backdoor | ANF ENGLISH

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Censorship and self-censorship in Turkey

The issue of freedom of the press, like many others in Turkey, is complicated and multidimensional. The laws restricting press freedom, the judiciary

Turkey: New Internet Filtering System Condemned As Backdoor Censorship | Center for International Media Assistance

Reporters Without Borders An Internet content filtering system that Turkey's Information Technologies and Communications Authority (BTK) introduced on 22 November is proving controversial both domestically and abroad. The outcry has coincided with...

Democracy Digest » Curbs on Turkey’s civil society causing concern

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Are the Turkish government's attempts to offer the country a safer internet actually a step backwards?

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Internet filter in Turkey sparks fears of censorship « IT Jargon Tumblog

Turkish telecommunications authorities will soon introduce a new Internet filter that would ban pornographic and separatist material online, despite numerous demonstrations decrying the move as censorship.

Internet filter in Turkey sparks fears of censorship - DW-WORLD.DE - Europe

On Tuesday, a new Internet filter is set to go into effect across Turkey.

Internet filter in Turkey sparks fears of censorship | Science & Technology | Deutsche Welle | 21.11.2011

Turkish telecommunications authorities will soon introduce a new Internet filter that would ban pornographic and separatist material online, despite numerous demonstrations decrying the move as censorship. DW-WORLD.DE: German and European news,...

Turks protest new media regulations, internet censorship (SETimes.com)

By Anna Wood for SETimes in Istanbul – 19/11/11

Punishment Without Trial: Pre-trial Detention in Turkey | Human Rights Now - Amnesty International USA Blog

Under Turkey's overly broad 'anti-terrorism' legislation, prolonged pre-trial detention often results in punishment without trial.

Arrested writer sent to high-security cell - Hurriyet Daily News

Prominent publisher, writer and activist Ragıp Zarakolu, who was arrested last week as part of the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) case, has been sent to a high-security prison ahead of his trial.

Turkey arrests publisher who recognizes Armenian Genocide | Armenia News - NEWS.am

Ragip Zarakolu is a well-known human rights activist and publisher in Turkey…

Anti-terrorism law used repeatedly to charge journalists with terrorist propaganda - Reporters Without Borders

Reporters Without Borders deplores Turkey's abuse of its anti-terrorism law to censor and punish journalists who raise the issue of its Kurdish minority or quote certain Kurdish leaders.

Zarakolu among Dozens Arrested On Charges of Aiding Kurd Rebels | Welcome to the Armenian Mirror-Spectator

A Turkish court on Tuesday pressed separatism charges against 23 suspects, including a university professor and a publisher, on suspicion of membership in a separatist Kurdish rebel group, state-run television reported.

Erdoğan rejects criticism over recent KCK arrests - Hurriyet Daily News

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan hit back at critics of the latest wave of arrests in the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) case, saying that those who defend the KCK must check themselves. BDP claims that the charges are crime.