Journalist Arat Dink and imprisoned Burmese monk U Gambira are among the winners of Index on Censorship's 2008 Freedom of Expression ...

The accused gendarmerie Veysel Şahin on trial in Trabzon makes a deposition for Dink’s murder trial in İstanbul. He says they ...

The conscientious objector Savda, still in prison, is declared exempt from military service to prevent the discussion of conscientious objection. Savda ...

The president Gül ratifies the revised 301, which now forbids denigrating the Turkish Nation rather than Turkishness. The permission to open ...

The Initiative Against Thought Crime restarts its activities as a reaction to the increased number of law suits targeting people who ...

The Supreme Court of Appeals confirms the acquittal of Prof. Dr. Kaboğlu and Prof. Dr. Oran, who were on trial for ...

Journalists do not draw a picture of a “contemporary” country, when it comes to the freedom of the press and the ...

The Turkish Parliament passes the revised 301 with the new expressions of “Turkish Nation” and “the State of the Turkish Republic” ...

15 months later, with a hearing nearly every three months, the court has still not determined all the responsible parties in ...

After Wordpress and Youtube.com, the Indymedia-Istanbul website has now been closed with a court decision. Turkey continues to close down whole ...

After one of their writers was taken into custody for an article he wrote, two representatives of the Taraf newspaper have ...

An Izmir court has sentenced Prof. Dr. Yayla to a suspended 15-month prison sentence for saying that Kemalism was “more regressive ...

The US Department of State released its 2007 report on Turkey on 11 March. The report criticises the fact that there ...

Chief of General Staff Büyükanit expressed in an interview that he was open to criticism. So how come so many people ...

In protest at Hrant Dink's murder, writer Demirer had called on others to commit the same "crime" as Dink had done, ...

Yesterday, former IHD branch president Ridvan Kizgin was sent to prison for two years and six months for investigating the murders ...

Lawyers for the Turkish-Armenian Agos newspaper have demanded that the case against Seropyan and Nalci be heared by a different court, ...

The General Staff has sued lawyer and human rights activist Keskin for “denigrating the army”; Keskin said, “I will continue to ...

Singer Ferhat Tunc was taken into custody from his home in the early hours of the morning in order to give ...

In his fifth suit against satirical cartoon magazines, this time against Leman, Prime Minister Erdogan is demanding 20,000 YTL compensation. ...