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Acquittal and Trial for Banned Publication

Eren, provincial head of HAK-PAR and the Diyarbakir representative of the Dema Nu newspaper, was acquitted along with three other party members. They were being charged with disseminating propaganda for a terrorist organizaton.

27 December 2002 Erol Önderoğlu

DGM Convicted Demir and Feyzioglu

State Security Court convicted publisher Demir and writer Feyzioglu for disseminating separatist propaganda, by writing and publishing a book called Ibo-Ibrahim Kaypakkaya.

20 December 2002 Erol Önderoğlu

Journalists: Press Freedom and Job Security

TGC chair Erinc, TGS chair Soner, and Yarkadas from CGD and communication jurist İlkiz demand job security and amendments in Media Law, RTUK, TMY and TCK on the basis of press freedoms. They also draw attention to the importance of implementation.

19 December 2002 Erol Önderoğlu

Ozturk: State is Protecting the Torturers

The state is not fighting against torture, said lawyer Ozturk. As evidence of the ongoing torture, he presented the application by children to the IHD. The children claimed they were tortured after the police killed one of their friends mistakenly.

4 December 2002 Erol Önderoğlu

Journalists will be Tried from France

The editor-in-chief Erol Ozkoray and writer Nur Dolay of the Idea Politic magazine will make their depositions in writing from France. The case was brought against the journalists based on the General Staffs demand.

3 December 2002 Erol Önderoğlu

Journalists Await Decisions by Supreme Court

Caricaturists Ayrancioglu and Saatci; Superonlines former editor Ak; Turkish Daily News writer Bekdil and director Cevik; Gun TVs former owner Bingol and many other journalists, are awaiting the decisions by the supreme court of appeals post-EU reforms.

18 November 2002 Erol Önderoğlu

Novelist Altan Acquitted in 2 Cases out of 4

Aktuel weekly magazine columnist Altan and editor Tunali were acquitted in 2 cases under charges of insulting the army. The other two trials were postponed because the General Staff did not issue a response about the Andic Document.

18 November 2002 Erol Önderoğlu

Former Editor Sentenced To 12 And a Half Year

When the sentence was announced, Zeybek, a former editor of a radical newspaper was in Sweden to receive the PEN Tucholsky Award, granted annually to writers who have been persecuted, threatened or are in exile.

18 October 2002

TRNC Expells 10 Spanish Journalists

RSF:A group of 16 Spanish people, including the 10 journalists, were expelled to the Greek-Cypriot side of the island by police and foreign ministry press officials after conferring with NGOs, the media and other civil society groups in the north.

18 October 2002

Decision in Manisa Children Torture Case

A Turkish court sentenced ten police officers to prison for a total of 1020 months for charges of torturing 16 teenagers. The time for the trial, which has been going on for seven years, will be up in June 2003.

17 October 2002

3 Journalists Accused for Insulting the Army

RSF: Turkey breaks commitments to European Union by charging journalists Ozguden, Karaca and Sert with insulting the army. More than 50 journalists were brought before the Turkish courts in 2001 in connection with what they had written.

17 October 2002

RSF Sued for Harming Turkish Ex-Army Chief

A complaint by Turkeys former armed forces chief of staff, Gen. Hüseyin Kivrikoglu, that Reporters Without Borders (RSF) harmed his public image will be heard by a Paris court on 16 October.

14 October 2002

EU-Reforms Could Not Save the Journalist

The court refused to retry journalist Kizilyaprak. The judge decided that the EU-reforms did not alter Kizilyapraks conviction. The journalist is facing a prison sentence. The case is taken to the ECHR.

10 October 2002 Erol Önderoğlu

Cyprus: Opposition Journalists Released

Afrika newspaper editor-in-chief Sener Levent and editor Memduh Ener released from prison; progress in case of journalist Lutlu Adali murdered in 1996.

Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan Journalists

On September 20-24 in the vicinity of Turkish Kusadasi town the final third meeting of the Armenian, Azerbaijan and Turkish journalists under Azerbaijan-Armenia-Turkey: Journalist Initiative-2002 project was held.

28 September 2002

Cyprus:Wife of Murdered Journalist Threatened

RSF expressed its concern about pressures being exerted on the widow of murdered journalist Adali, apparently from those close to the authorities trying to get her to drop a lawsuit against the government connected with his death in Cyprus, North part.

12 September 2002

Turkey: Journalist Reported Kidnapped

Journalist Ahmet Un of Weekly Firatta Yasam in Diyarbakir reported kidnapped and threatened with death. RSF secretary- general Robert Menard asked guarantee the security of the journalist.

10 September 2002

The Journalist Demands to be Tried Again

Journalist Kizilyaprak of the closed-down Ozgur Bakis, will apply to the attorney generalship. He demands to be retried under the deregulated terrorism law. The journalist faces prison sentence since October 2001.

26 August 2002 Erol Önderoğlu

Journalism Challenges to Turkey

Journalism and The Human Rights Challenge to Turkey. Report of the IFJ / EFJ Mission to Turkey in April 26-30 April, 2002: Putting Union Rights and Press Freedom on the agenda.

Locals Debate on Media Freedom

Its thought that the EU-reforms are positive yet inadequate. According to the local media organizations, it depends on implementation. Kara from Datca, Bingol from Diyarbakir, Toprak from Mersin and Kucuk from Edremit discuss the new journalism.

12 August 2002 Erol Önderoğlu

Turkish Cypriot Journalists Arrested

Sener Levent, the director of the Afrika newspaper published in TRNC, and writer Memduh Ener, were arrested and sent to prison because of an article called Who is the Biggest Traitor? Cypriot journalists union criticized the arrests.

9 August 2002 Erol Önderoğlu

Two Turkish Cypriot Journalists In Prison

RSF today voiced its outrage at the Six-month jail sentences imposed on two journalists of the Nicosia daily newspaper Afrika, Sener Levent and Memduh Ener, for insulting the President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Rauf Denktash.

The Last Struggle of the Publisher

Ayse Nur Zarakolu was a publisher. She got several awards and faced with trials and sentences. She passed away in January 2002. She was also publisher of Omer Asans book Pontos Kulturu (The Culture of Pontos). The books banned. Here is the story...

Journalism Under Emergency Rule

Ferit Demir, the only journalist in the region, has been working under emergency rule for the last 12 years. He has been detained three times, received threats and got kidnapped by the PKK during the period. Emergency rule was lifted in Tunceli last week.

5 August 2002 Erol Önderoğlu

Turkey: Publisher Convicted

Keskin, charged with separatist propaganda for publishing a journalist Randals book about Turkeys Kurdish minority. population, was sentenced to a six-month prison sentence, which the court converted to a fine of about 500 dollars.

The Six Months of Local and Regional Media

The BIA Legal Units January-June 2002 report encompasses more than 50 incidents and 84 media instituations. 1 journalist imprisoned, 9 journalists are on trial, 3 convicted, 9 acquitted; 6 attacked. RTUK banned televisions and radios 2921 days.

23 July 2002 Erol Önderoğlu

The International Criminal Court begins work

RSF: Unpunished killers of journalists;21 countries accused and 9 others under surveillance. Turkey, Georgia, Indonesia, Mexico, Mozambique, Nigeria , Philippines, Serbia-Montenegro, and Sri Lanka are under surveillance.

Publisher Oztoprak Acquitted, Keskin?

Publisher Öztoprak was acquitted of charges of promoting separatism by publishing Mehmed Uzun book,Generating a Language. Publisher Abdullah Keskin faces imminent imprisonment.

Sentenced Writer Seeks Asylum

Writer, publisher and political activist Pekdemir seeks asylum following three-year and nine-month prison sentence.Turkish Penal Code, for supporting an illegal organisation, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), in his book (Is the State a Revenger?.

Journalists Project for Goodwill

Armenian, Azerbaijani and Turkish journalists held a meeting in Ankara.

Kurdish Media Accreditation for EU Summit

International Federation of Journalists protests refusal for accreditation of Kurdish media to the EU Seville summit.

RSFs Letter to Turkish Justice Minister Turk

Journalist Horuz sentenced to 15 years imprisonment. Daily Cumhuriyet managing editor Yildiz was detained, for no apparent reason, at an Ankara hotel during the night of 14 to 15 June. He was held for questioning an for 12 hours, then released.