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The case of Karkin v. Turkey concerns the conviction of the secretary of a union who was sentenced by the National Security Court in 1997 to one year's imprisonment for making a speech inciting the people to hatred and hostility creating discrimination based on membership of a social class and race, a criminal conviction in application of Article 312 of the Turkish Criminal Code. Although the European Court of Human Rights clearly tion in south-east Turkey and the need for the authorities to be alert to acts capable of fuelling additional violence in the region, the Court did not agree that the...

With the enactment of several harmonization packages, much progress has been achieved in the process of fulfilling the Copenhagen Political Criteria and involve efforts on the process of harmonization with the acquis communautaire that is currently underway in Turkey. To strengthen the exercise of the right of freedom of thought and expression, amendments have taken place as regards several acts and regulations such as the Turkish Penal Code and the Broadcasting Act. Some examples of this are as follows: The amendment to Article 159 of the Turkish Penal Code reduces the minimum penalty for those...

On 7 April 2003, the governments of Poland and Turkey signed an agreement introducing a programme relating to their co-operation in the fields of science, education and culture. In Article 25 of the agreement, the contracting parties undertake to support direct co-operation between Polish and Turkish institutions, organisations and associations of film-makers, especially with regard to the production of films, the provision of the necessary services and the presentation of films from the other country. According to Article 26, co-operation between film-makers’ associations and film archives is...

The South Eastern Europe Cinema Network (SEE) was set up in 2000 on the initiative of the Greek Film Centre (a state-owned organisation attached to the Greek Ministry of Culture). It promotes and supports the national film industry of eleven Southeast European states (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Greece, Croatia, “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovenia, Turkey, Cyprus). The aim is to provide support for the development, production and advertising of the member states’ films both within and outside the network. A support fund for co-productions...

In August 2002, the Turkish Parliament adopted Act no. 4756 amending the Broadcasting Act (Act no. 3984 of 20 April 1994). The most important amendment is the addition of Article 4, under which programmes in various languages and dialects are permitted. In principle, programmes should be broadcast in Turkish, although exceptions are possible for languages that are commonly used by Turkish citizens in everyday life. Another new addition is an article which permits the retransmission of programmes from abroad. Furthermore the Act contains provisions concerning sanctions, the composition of the Supreme...