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bianet Did its Job to Report on Male Violence, Court Rules

bianet Did its Job to Report on Male Violence, Court Rules

Emphasizing on the press freedom, a Turkish court rejected the removal request of a bianet news article by a plaintiff who battered his ex-girlfriend.

Commencement Day For OHO 2014 Graduates

Commencement Day For OHO 2014 Graduates

Having hosted 36 journalist candidates from 33 communication faculties across Turkey and North Cyprus, From School to Newsroom (OHO) program has ended. Participators received their certificates in a cocktail party.

1 September 2014 Melike Futtu

OHO 2014 Kicks Off

OHO 2014 Kicks Off

Held for the eighth time this year, From School to Newsroom (OHO) program kicked off. The program attracts 36 journalist candidates from 36 communication faculties across Turkey and North Cyprus.

bianet Holds Its Annual Women and LGBTI Meeting

bianet Holds Its Annual Women and LGBTI Meeting

Following bianet's appeal, a round table meeting brought together Women and LGBTI oriented journalism/non-governmental organizations.

5 May 2014 Nilay Vardar

bianet Holds Annual Meeting on Human Rights Journalism

bianet Holds Annual Meeting on Human Rights Journalism

bianet brought together various human rights activists to evaluate and plan its human rights oriented journalism and the job opportunities in this field.

28 April 2014 Ekin Karaca

Journalists From 11 Countries Come Together For Media Freedom

Journalists From 11 Countries Come Together For Media Freedom

Experts, monitoring organizations, journalists including bianet have met around “Safety Net for European Journalists” project to make a difference for media freedom in Europe.

bianet Evaluates Its Children-Focused Journalism

bianet Evaluates Its Children-Focused Journalism

bianet held its annual roundtable meeting on Children Rights Focused Journalism, discussing past year’s children news reporting’s procedure, language and context as well as next year's projects.

22 April 2014 Yüce Yöney

Court Restricts bianet Article

Court Restricts bianet Article

Acting upon businessperson Çeçen’s defamation complaint, Ankara 5th High Criminal Court ordered a URL-based restriction on bianet’s article regarding the purchase of Sabah-TV allegedly by the order of PM Erdoğan.

bianet is Seeking Translation Interns

bianet is Seeking Translation Interns

bianet is now launching a translation internship program. The application deadline is March 31.

We Are Thankful

We Are Thankful

We are hailing all those who contributed to the creation of “bianet” through Fikret, Mustafa, Sevda and Şeyhmus who contributed us continuously for 13 years.

27 January 2014 Nadire Mater

bianet’s 2013 Through Photos

bianet’s 2013 Through Photos

How did 2013 go for bianet? We have covered the whole year through photos.

bianet Receives Press Freedom Award From RSF Austria

bianet Receives Press Freedom Award From RSF Austria

Reporters Without Border (RSF) Austria awarded bianet with its Press Freedom Awards – A Signal for Europe. RSF Austria President Dr. Moehring said they have decided to give out this year’s award to bianet in order to emphasize on the jailed journalists in Turkey.

9 December 2013

Life Sentence + 789 Years of Prison + 1,263,320 Lira Fine!

Life Sentence + 789 Years of Prison + 1,263,320 Lira Fine!

I believe that every/thing has not ended, yet. Because I know that since 2006, political cases in courts are based on false evidence manufactured by the police!

18 November 2013 Füsun Erdoğan

bianet Awarded By Chamber of City Planners

bianet Awarded By Chamber of City Planners

Chamber of City Planners awarded bianet with its annual prize in “Urban Planning Media”.

11 November 2013

Various Moods of Turkish Police

VIDEO

Various Moods of Turkish Police

Authorities closed down Gezi Park again last night - after reopening following a long closure of 23 days. Some of Turkish police response to protestors appeared on bianet cameras as follows.

9 July 2013 Beyza Kural,Elif Akgül

bianet Receives Contemporary Journalists Association Award

bianet Receives Contemporary Journalists Association Award

Contemporary Journalists Association awarded bianet with its Best Internet Website Award for bianet's "long-lasting features and coverage on Turkey's media".

How to Vote For bianet

THE BOBS AWARDS 2013

How to Vote For bianet

How will I vote for the winners at The Bobs 2013: Best of Online Activism Awards where bianet is nominated for the Reporters Without Borders category?

bianet Nominated For Reporters Without Borders Award

bianet Nominated For Reporters Without Borders Award

Nominations have been announced for The Bobs 2013: Best Online Activism Award. Among 34 categories in 14 languages, bianet was nominated for Reporters Without Borders Award.

bianet's Latest Book Promoted

bianet's Latest Book Promoted

bianet's new book "10 Years in Freedom of Expression" has been promoted to a group of academicians, authors, journalists and NGO representatives.

11 January 2013 Nilay Vardar

bianet in 2012: FEATURES

bianet in 2012: FEATURES

In 2012, bianet published several features that encouraged countrywide discussions including the abortion right, jailed journalists/students, maternal language rights and reconciliatory soup recipes from Anatolia, as well as countless topic and issues which the mainstream media put a deaf ear on.

bianet Defamation Charges Declared Nolle Prosequi

bianet Defamation Charges Declared Nolle Prosequi

A special media prosecution office in Istanbul has decided to voluntarily discontinue criminal charges for bianet staff on Thursday, upon the defamation complaint from Sedat Selim Ay, Istanbul's Police Commissioner on Anti-Terrorism.

31 December 2012

Bianet Journalists Testify to Prosecutor

Bianet Journalists Testify to Prosecutor

Bianet staff were order to testify to Istanbul press prosecutor this afternoon, concerning a series of coverage issued on Sedat Selim Ay, Istanbul's intern chief police officer, in July this year.

29 November 2012

bianet “The Best News Website of the Year''

TURKISH JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION AWARDS

bianet “The Best News Website of the Year''

bianet received ‘the best news website award’ at the "Journalism Achievement Awards” of Turkish Journalists Association.

Award of Turkey Journalism Association Goes to bianet

Award of Turkey Journalism Association Goes to bianet

The laureates of the 52nd Turkey Journalism Achievements annually bestowed by the Turkey Journalism Association were announced. bianet will be awarded in the field of internet journalism.

bianet Went to Court - Regulations Changed

INTERNET CENSORSHIP

bianet Went to Court - Regulations Changed

Due to a change of regulations the Council of State dismissed bianet's request to stall the disputed internet filter application. Bianet had filed an according case against the application which is part of the "Draft Bill on Principles and Procedures for the Safe Use of the Internet".

3 November 2011 Ekin Karaca

bianet in the Focus of Academic Research

CTITIZEN JOURNALISM

bianet in the Focus of Academic Research

A research on internet journalism in the context of citizen journalism in Turkey studied bianet.org in the context of citizen journalism and pointed to the news portal as a showcase example for citizen journalism.

20 July 2011 Tezcan Özkan Kutlu

Students from Berlin and Istanbul at bianet

Students from Berlin and Istanbul at bianet

bianet was the starting point for students from Bahçeşehir University in Istanbul and from the Freie Universität Berlin in a series of visits to Turkish media institutions. As part of the Media and Culture Management project, they met BİA Project Advisor Nadire Mater.

28 April 2011 Haluk Kalafat

Exclusive Serials From bianet

Exclusive serials of news, photo reportages and articles from bianet.

Heading for a New Challenge...

ERTUGRUL KURKCU BİDS FAREWELL TO BIANET

Heading for a New Challenge...

The right to stand candidate in coming elections, that I was only able to attend as the longest week in Turkey's history is drawing to an end, is a far more personal position than even that of a political party leader. It's now time to say farewell to bianet...

22 April 2011 Ertuğrul Kürkçü

Internet Should not Become the "Voice of Ankara"

IPS - BIANET:

Internet Should not Become the "Voice of Ankara"

The IPS Communication Foundation/bianet brought a compulsory filter program for all internet subscribers in Turkey before the Council of State. The new regulation enables the Council of Information Technologies and Telecommunication to ban access to websites according to their own unpublished list of forbidden sites.

15 April 2011 Emin Acar

Ertosun's Compensation Claim against bianet Rejected

Ertosun's Compensation Claim against bianet Rejected

The compensation claim filed against Tanay from the Contemporary Lawyers Association and bianet website co-ordinator Kürkçü by former Prisons and Arrest Stations General Manager Ertosun was rejected by an Ankara court.

Quick Decision in Case against bianet?

Quick Decision in Case against bianet?

The trial launched by former Prisons and Arrest Stations General Manager Ertosun against bianet co-ordinator Kürkçü and Lawyer Tanay of the Contemporary Lawyers Association was postponed to March. At the same day, Ertoson made journalist Talu publish a disclaimer.

31 January 2011 Emir Çelik

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