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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: 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 Turkey: Singer Bülent Ersoy taken to court The famous transsexual singer Bülent Ersoy has been charged for "alienating the people from military service" 19 May 2008 Turkey / Germany: Panel debate about Turkish censorship On 4 April 2008, protest singer Ferhat Tunç performed with his Kurdish songs and discussed music censorship in Berlin, Germany 08 April 2008 Turkey: Singer Ferhat Tunç's next trial postponed A Turkish court decided to postpone the next trial of the Turkish-Kurdish singer with five months, until May 2008 17 December 2007 Turkey: Radio station to court for playing a song Gün Radio is taken to court for a song entitled 'Mesopotamia', which was played by the station on 9 November 2006 15 November 2007 Turkey: Kurdish singer Ferhat Tunç threatened in the virtual world Singer Ferhat Tunç has never felt as unsafe in Turkey as he does now. Death threats against him are published on the internet, and he faces yet another court case 01 November 2007