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ARTICLE 01 October 2004 Turkey: Censorship Past and Present By Sanar Yurdatapan A historical approach to the nature of censorship. A chapter from ‘Shoot the Singer! Music Censorship Today’ (Freemuse/Zed Books, May 2004). Reproduced with kind permission from the author and Zed Books. Read chapter (PDF) Shoot the Singer! Read more More on Turkey: Turkey: Killed for requesting a Kurdish song A weekend in December 2011 ended tragically when a man was brutally murdered after he requested that musicians in a bar sing a folksong in Zaza Kurdish, his native language 03 January 2012 Turkey: Ferhat Tunç in court once again Kurdish singer Ferhat Tunç is the target of seven investigations and two trials due to speeches he held during his campaign for the general elections in June 2011 16 December 2011 Turkey: Campaign for Kurdish singer and activist Gazin (Raziye Kızıl) A petition addressed to the Turkish Prime Minister to free Gazin who was sentenced to one year in prison for having sung two Kurdish songs 26 October 2011 Turkey: Acquitted from 12 years' prison charge for political music album Turkish rock musician Yaşar Kurt's dissident song 'Korku', released in the late 1990s, resulted in his trial for treason where he was acquitted from a 12 years' prison sentence 25 October 2011 Turkey: 10 months in prison for chanting slogans at a concert A 10 months sentence to three young men who had been chanting slogans at a Grup Yorum concert in Dersim in 2007 was confirmed by Supreme Court’s 9th Office 18 October 2011 Turkey: One year in prison for singing two Kurdish folk songs Raziye Kızıl (Gazin) was sentenced to one year in prison for having sung two Kurdish songs and is also faced with an extra five-year prison threat 18 October 2011 Turkey: Convicted for having lyrics by Grup Yorum on computer On 22 September 2011 union official Berivan Doğan was convicted to ten months imprisonment for having the lyrics of Grup Yorum's songs on her computer 05 October 2011 Turkey: Prisoners punished with visitor-ban for singing a folk song Berna Yılmaz and Ferhat Tüzer, two imprisoned students, have reportedly received a six months ban on having visitors because they were singing a folk song 12 September 2011 Turkey: Kurdish singer’s concert cut short by protesters On 15 July 2011 at the İstanbul Jazz Festival the concert of the Kurdish singer Aynur Doğan was interrupted by shouting people in the audience, forcing her to leave the stage 25 July 2011 Turkey: Trial against the Kurdish singer Yılmaz Dünen The Kurdish singer Farquin (Yılmaz Dünen) is facing a prison sentence of between seven and 20 years, charged with ‘spreading propaganda for an illegal organisation’ 22 July 2011