Publisher Mehdi Tanrikulu has been sentenced to five months imprisonment for writing a petititon in Kurdish and for speaking Kurdish in court. He will appeal against the sentence.

At the third hearing of the Hrant Dink murder trial yesterday, suspected instigators Tuncel and Hayal were questioned. The Hrant Dink Sensitivity Group called for justice.

After attacking journalists Magden and Temelkuran who spoke out against the nationalist manipulation of children, the Tercüman newspaper is being taken to court.

There is continuing reluctance to link the different trials in Trabzon, Samsun and Istanbul concerning the murder of journalist Hrant Dink. Senior police and gendarmerie officers are still not on trial.

The BIA² 2007 Media Monitoring Report reveals that there are still countless violations of press freedom across the country. There were also more attacks on journalists in 2007 than in the previous year, with the shocking murder of Hrant Dink still fresh in everyone's mind.

An Istanbul court dropped the case against Hrant Dink’s lawyer Erdal Dogan for writing that nationalist lawyer Fuat Turgut should be tried for threatening Hrant Dink.

After questioning the expenditure of a district governor in the Devrek district of Zonguldak, journalist Ibrahim Tig faced a five-year trial. He was acquitted on 30 January.

After courts in Ankara and Sivas blocked access to the international video-sharing website in mid-January, a court in Izmir blocked access to the site again yesterday. The ban has now been lifted.

Fikri Sağlar, former minister and a member of the parliamentary investigation committee into the Susurluk affair urges for persistent investegitation into the "Ergenekon" conspiracy, in order to relieve Turkey from "deep state cancer."

Veli Kücük, Kemal Kerincsiz, Sevgi Erenerol, now under arrest for charges of "conspiracy" had already come into notoriety for the part they played in the provocative shows in the trials opened upon their own complaints against liberal intellectuals.

RSF and OSCE release general recommendations for internet use in the OSCE member states. "Filters can only be put in place by Internet users themselves" they recommend.

It has been 15 years since Cumhuriyet journalist Ugur Mumcu was murdered. The “Hope” trial, which is related to his murder and that of three academics, has been going on for eight years. There is only one person detained.

Two Turkish judges successively impose categorical ban on access to Youtube.com, for the content of one single video clip.

On the first anniversary of the murder of journalist Hrant Dink, more than ten thousand people gathered in front of the Agos newspaper office, the place where he was shot.

The family of murdered journalist Hrant Dink wants all those responsible for the murder to be prosecuted and has filed a complaint against Istanbul Police Chief Cerrah and other officers, as well as the officers of the Trabzon Gendarmerie Command.

Of 254 people tried, 55 were on trial under Article 301; six of them were convicted. 83 people were accused of supporting terrorism, 23 of inciting to hatred and hostility. 34 journalists and 12 media institutions were attacked; Turkey had to pay a total of 123,912 Euros compensation in ECHR cases.

The Sisli prosecution in İstanbul has fined six major Turkish newspapers for violating the publishing ban on the soldiers taken hostage by the PKK in October 2007.

Necip Capraz, owner of the Hakkari Yüksekova News newspaper, has won a case against his attacker, although he will appeal against the light punishment.

The ECHR has awarded compensation to journalists who were punished under emergency law.

Nine local newspapers, none with a circulation of over 4,000, have been fined for "influencing the judiciary" in the Malatya murder case.