Archive for 'General'
Prosecution for Books about Dink Murder
Erol ÖNDROĞLU
BİA News Center
Up to now, 3 cases have been opened against Milliyet newspaper journalist Nedim Şener on the grounds of his book “The Dink Murder and the Lies of the Intelligence”. Şener faces prison sentence of up to 32 years 6 months in total. The next hearing takes place tomorrow (16 December) at the [...]
Posted: December 23rd, 2009 under General.
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Writer’s Case Pending for 2 Years
Erol ÖNDROĞLU
BİA News Center
The case against writer Temel Demirer under article 301 of the Turkish Criminal Code (TCK) on “Insulting the Turkish People, Republic of Turkey and Governmental Institutions and Bodies” has been pending for more than 2 years. Demirer is tried on the grounds of his statement “Hrant Dink was not murdered because he [...]
Posted: December 23rd, 2009 under General.
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Discrimination in the Media by Denial of Discrimination
Tolga KORKUT
BİA News Center
Assoc. Dr. Ülkü Doğanay from Ankara University Faculty of Communication is the author of the “Discrimination Framed by the Print Media Research”.* According to Doğanay, the “discrimination denial strategy” is one of the most typical examples for discrimination in the media.
“Embrace diversity, stop discrimination” is the topic of this year’s International Human [...]
Posted: December 23rd, 2009 under General.
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Decision in Favour of Armenian Agos Newspaper Sparks Hopes
Erol ÖNDROĞLU
BİA News Center
The Şişli (Istanbul) 2nd Magistrate Criminal Court handed down a 8,000 TL (€ 3640) monetary fine to Kenan Celepoğlu on the grounds of electronic mails he sent to the Armenian Agos newspaper which allegedly contained insults, threats and racism.
The lawyers of the weekly newspaper brought a charge against an unidentified person in [...]
Posted: December 23rd, 2009 under General.
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Email harasser must pay $5,300 for racist threats against Armenian newspaper, Istanbul court rules
Lou Ann MATOSSIAN
The Armenian Reporter
Minneapolis – Sparking hopes for the Turkish judiciary system, the Sisli (Istanbul) Second Magistrate Criminal Court has convicted a fourth individual of harassing the Istanbul Armenian weekly Agos, reported the BIA News Center on Dec. 15.
Kenan Celepoglu of Samsun was fined 8,000 TL ($5,286) for “insult via an oral or written [...]
Posted: December 23rd, 2009 under General.
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UN Award for Turkish Caricaturist Firuz Kutal
Bawer ÇAKIR
BİA News Center
The United Nations (UN) awarded Turkish peace and human rights activist and caricaturist Firuz Kutal with the “Political Caricature” price for his work entitled “Peace Doves”. Kutal lives in Norway and criticized the United States of America with his caricature at the time when the USA invaded Iraq despite wide-spread anti-war demonstrations [...]
Posted: December 23rd, 2009 under General.
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Stop jerking us around
AGOS
Weekly Turkish Armenian Newspaper
It has been two and a half years since the murder of Hrant Dink, the founder of our newspaper. The 10th hearing of the trial will be held on 6 July, Monday. We have reached a point where the ‘deep’ will preventing the exposure of the powers behind the murder has managed [...]
Posted: July 6th, 2009 under General.
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Posted: November 4th, 2007 under General.
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