Turkish man could face two-year prison sentence for Facebook comments

October 20th, 2011

A Turkish man could face two years in prison for comments made about Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan on his Facebook page. A public prosecutor in Ankara is calling for the man’s imprisonment based on insulting Erdogan, along with some of his cabinet members and ministers from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). The man is being charge under Article 301 of Turkey’s Criminal Code.

‘Without free speech writers can have very little impact on culture’

November 25th, 2010

This is a transcript of author and English PEN deputy president Hari Kunzru’s address to the European Writer’s Parliament

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Agos journalists face charges

January 24th, 2008

the owner of the Armenian-Turkish newspaper Agos, Serkis Seropyan, and its new editor, Aris Nalci, are facing prosecution over a 9 November article condemning sentences passed on their colleagues. (more…)