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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: Date of next hearing set in Ferhat Tunç's case The date for the next hearing in the case against musician and Freemuse Award winner Ferhat Tunç has been set to 30 September 2010 04 August 2010 Turkey: Court sentences band to 10 months imprisonment for Kurdish song The Malatya Criminal Court has sentenced the band members of Grup Munzur to 10 months imprisonment for singing a Kurdish song at a concert held in June 2008 27 July 2010 Turkey: Singer sentenced to 10 months in prison Singer Cevdet Bağca to serve a 10 months prison term for a statement given to the crowd before his concert in the Turkish town Siirt in September 2009 22 July 2010 Turkey: Kurdish singer Ferhat Tunc faces 15 years in prison Kurdish singer Ferhat Tunç faces imprisonment of up to 15 years regarding charges of "spreading propaganda for the PKK organisation", the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party 26 May 2010 Turkey: Kurdish music in turmoil of censorship and court cases A Kurdish song has been banned, and Kurdish singers are being arrested for singing - or just singing along to - specific Kurdish songs, accused of making propaganda 19 May 2010 Turkey: German musician detained and told to leave the country The German DJ Shantel was denied access into Turkey on 14 April 2010 when he arrived at the airport in Istanbul. His concerts had to be canceled. 23 April 2010 Turkey: One year ban and prison sentences to Kurdish music group Diyarbakır High Criminal Court banned 13 members of Bahar Cultural Centre from performing arts for one year and gave them 10 months prison sentence each 23 April 2010 Turkey: A new investigation against musician Ferhat Tunç Ferhat Tunç made a formal deposition at a Public Prosecution Office due to an investigation filed against him about a speech he made at a music festival in 2009. 16 April 2010 Turkey: Kurdish singer Rojda charged with 20 months imprisonment In a court in Diyarbakır, the Kurdish singer Rojda Şenses was charged with one year and eight months imprisonment for ‘conducting propaganda’ in two separate concerts 29 March 2010 Turkey: Killed for singing Kurdish folk songs in bar A young man, Emrah Gezer, was killed because he and his friends had been singing Kurdish folk songs in a bar 03 March 2010