UNESCO Guilelrmo Cano Prize has been given to Ahmet Şık, a Tiurkish journalist on trial within Odatv case and a target of police violence during the Gezi Park Resistance. He has also been acquitted of defamation lately.

bianet interviewed Press Council Chairman Türenç, Turkish Journalists’ Union Chairman Güç and Turkish Journalist Association Chairman Olcayto on the discrepancy between AA and CİHAN’s election result coverage.

PEN’s 64 leading writers from Turkey and around expressed their concern regarding the Twitter and YouTube ban in Turkey, calling for access to be restored immediately.

Turkey's Telecommunication Authorities (TİB) blocked the access to YouTube.

A Turkish court released 8 defendants in KCK media case and 37 in KCK main case pending a trial including publisher Ragıp Zarakolu’s son Deniz Zarakolu.

Arzu Çağlan, a senior radio programmer in Best FM, has been laid off after she commemorating Berkin Elvan. “Being fired for telling the truth is better than misguiding people by telling the wrong and staying silent,” she said.

TRT reporter Elif Akkuş has allegedly been reassigned to a tech support position after sending tweets related to the death of Berkin Elvan. “We don’t know about the case, but there must be a reason for transfer,” HR department said.

Aktaş Erdoğan, the son of Füsun Erdoğan who has been sentenced to life within Turkey’s MLKP case, has started a 3-day hunger strike in order to protest the life sentence of his journalist mother.

RTÜK issued a warning on TRT for saying “babe opposition” for representing Turkey’s second largest opposition party on the evening news.

While 59 journalists and 23 publishers were arrested in 2013; 186 journalists, 1 media outlet and 2 internet sites were subjected to attacks. ECHR ordered to Turkey to pay 198,935 euros in FoE related cases. 143 media workers lost their jobs.

Advocate Tora Pekin told bianet that PM Erdoğan’s phone call intervention to Habertürk TV is punishable by 1 to 5 years of prison according to Turkish Penal Code Article 124/3.

bianet interviewed journalists Yavuz Baydar, Ertuğrul Mavioğlu and Amberin Zaman on the recent intervention of PM Erdoğan to Habertürk television by making a phone call during his trip to Morocco. All agreed that the government’s pressure on the press is overt now.

Mahir Zeynalov, an Azerbaijan national who worked at Today’s Zaman newspaper for 4 years, have been deported after facing prosecution related to a tweet.

bianet interviewed Berhan Soylu, an executive board member of Computer Engineers Chamber on the impact of government’s bill proposal which will regulate the internet usage.

Vagus.tv Editor-in-Chief Serdar Akinan told bianet that the access to their website has been restricted for five days unlawfully with no court order.

bianet interviewed Prof. Dr. Özden Cankaya on TRT’s public television broadcasting policies and how it should cover the upcoming elections as Turkey’s official television networked received a lot of criticism for being “pro-government”.

We are hailing all those who contributed to the creation of “bianet” through Fikret, Mustafa, Sevda and Şeyhmus who contributed us continuously for 13 years.

CHP deputies Tanrıkulu and Öğüt brought allegations about newspaper sale blocks for Evrensel, Sözcü, Yurt and Aydınlık in Istanbul’s subway stations to Turkey’s parliament.

Acting upon TGC’s application, 4th Regional Administration Court suspended the media entry ban in Istanbul’s Police Headquarters.

How did 2013 go for bianet? We have covered the whole year through photos.