Detained since May 20, Tayfun Altıntaş, Editor in Chief of Kızıl Bayrak weekly newspaper and 10 members of MİB have been released.

GÖP responded to requisition of Public Prosecutor of Ankara from ministry to ban Gülen linked media organs.

After the President Erdoğan said “Let’s skip 4G and proceed on 5G”, 4G tender planned to be on May 26 has been suspended for three months.

Nor zartonk’s twitter account has been suspended indefinitely. Serhat Koç, IT lawyer, stated that the reason of twitter account’s suspension could be a spam attack.

23 journalists and 9 distributors entered the month of April in prison. 1 columnist was killed, 10 journalists were attacked. 7 journalists and 4 newspapers were threatened; 2 journalists’ houses were searched. 7 journalists and a social media person were detained. 3 journalists and 2 cartoonists were sentenced by the reason of insulting Erdoğan. European Court of Human Rights ordered Turkey to pay EUR 22.983…

Being tried at Penal Court of First Instance upon her tweet that criticized the prosecutor due to closing of the corruption file, journalist Sedef Kabaş’s file was sent to the Assize Court. However, Kabaş was not alone during the trial.

Bianet’s project “Peace Journalism” continues with the participation of ombudsmen and civil society organizations

BirGün newspaper journalist İnce on trial for insulting then PM Erdoğan and son Bilal Erdoğan has been fined 10,620 TL for “offending persons’ honor, reputation and respectability”. The court did not abate the sentence because İnce was not seen to “show regret”.

An investigation has been launched against Hürriyet, Cumhuriyet, Posta and Bugün newspapers under “terrorism propaganda” suspicion for publishing the photos of Prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz during Istanbul Courthouse hostage crisis.

Journalists Society of Turkey and Press Council of Turkey criticized the order issued by Prime Minister’s Office to bar several newspapers and TV channels from attending the funeral ceremony of Prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz this afternoon.

Ece Aydın, a former bianet intern and current reporter at BirGün and Yol TV, has been released early morning after being detained last night while reporting from Istanbul Courthouse hostage crisis.

bianet launched its peace journalism project with a workshop focusing on the differences between war and peace journalism as well as the ways to put peace journalism in practice.