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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: Yet another Kurdish song cleared in court On 21 March 2009, a broadcasting editor of a local radio station Dünya in Adana, southern Turkey, was acquitted in a trial brought for the airing of the Kurdish song 'Keçe Kurdan' 29 April 2009 Turkey: Acquitted in court case over broadcasting a Kurdish song A Turkish court has cleared the Kurdish singer Şivan Perwer’s song ‘Mihemedo’ of an accusation of ‘inciting hatred and hostility’ 02 March 2009 Turkey: Popular singer acquitted of anti-military remarks Singer and tv host Bülent Ersoy was acquitted of charges against her for having made anti-military remarks during a tv programme broadcasted in February 2008. 06 January 2009 Turkey: Busdriver convicted for playing Kurdish song A court in Diyarbakır sentenced the busdriver Mustafa Tüzün to 10 months’ imprisonment because he played a Kurdish song in his bus 08 September 2008 Turkey: Jail sentence to Kurdish folk singer Folk music singer Hasan Sağlam was sentenced to 10 months' imprisonment because he sang a Kurdish song at the Munzur Festival in Tunceli in 2007 08 September 2008 Turkey: Interview with exiled musician Fuat Talay Baglama-player and singer Fuat Talay speaks about how the Turkish authorities kept him in a police station's cellar for 23 days, and later on convicted him to 12 years in prison 04 August 2008 Turkey: Arrest order for director of childrens' choir Three members of Diyarbakir Yenisehir Council Childrens' Choir were acquitted, but the Turkish court issued an arrest order for the director of the choir, Duygu Bayar 23 June 2008 Turkey: Banned rapper did not back down In 2000, a song by Turkish rapper Sultana was banned, and she disappeared from the lime light. After an eight-year hiatus she is now back on the music stage 18 June 2008 Turkey: Three children stand trial for singing a march in Kurdish Three members of a Kurdish children's choir face prison charges by Turkish prosecutors for simply singing an old Kurdish song 09 June 2008 Turkey: Singer Ferhat Tunç's trial postponed again On 28 May 2008 Ferhat Tunç stood trial over an article he wrote. But once again, the trial was postponed 29 May 2008