Human Rights Watch
Copyright © February 1999 by Human
Rights Watch.
All rights reserved.
Printed in the United States of America.
ISBN 1-56432-226-2
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number:
99-60862
TABLE OF CONTENTS
IV. INTERNATIONAL
LEGAL OBLIGATIONS
Article 10 of the
European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights
Domestic Law
V. FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
IN TURKEY TODAY
The Role of the
Print Media
The Role of Private
Television
The Role of the
Military
VI. VIOLENCE AGAINST
JOURNALISTS
Political Killings
Beatings and Other
Violence
VIII. RESTRICTIONS
ON FREE EXPRESSION
Arbitrariness
Prosecution and
Repression of the Kurdish-Nationalist Press and Writers
Prosecution and
Pressure on the Islamist Press
Prosecution of
the Mainstream Press and Writers
Restrictions on
Reporting the Conflict in Southeastern Turkey
1987-1995
The Present Situation
The Confiscation
of Publications and Books and the Closing of Newspapers
In the Mainstream
Press
In the Kurdish-Nationalist
Press
IX. RESTRICTIONS
ON THE USE OF THE KURDISH LANGUAGE
International
Legal Protections
Prohibitions Against
the Use of Kurdish and Languages Other than Turkish
In Education
In Politics
In Broadcasting
Publishing in
Kurdish