Aleyna Tilki’s concert on September 24 was canceled by Osmancık Municipality on the grounds that Tilki’s statements criticizing the anti-LGBTIQ+ march in Istanbul on September 18 were “incompatible with our culture”
Ceyhan District Governor’s Office banned the concert of musician Ilkay Akkaya, who was supposed to give a concert within the scope of August 30 Victory Day. Akkaya announced on his Twitter post on August 31 that the Governorship of Mardin also banned her concert to be held on September 24
Datça Women’s Platform announced that the documentary “My Child” (2013) was banned by the District Governor’s Office upon the application of the District Police Department.
Adana Governor’s Office banned the Kurdish play ‘Tartuffe’, which would be staged on June 6 by Şanoya Bajêr a Amed ê (Amed City Theatre), without giving any reason. It was learned that Mersin Governorship gave permission for the same play first, but removed the permission given 20 hours before the play
We listened to the experiences of Ankara Union Theater, which has been struggling with censorship and bans for fifty years during the coronavirus epidemic, when theaters had to close their doors. Representative of the Speak Up Platform, Egehan Deniz Koska, spoke with Gül Göker, one of the founders of Ankara Union Theatre
Both during and after the Kurdish peace initiative process, censorship became an ordinary process of filmmaking for Kurdish documentary movie-makers. Taner Tan wrote about the challange of cenorship faced by recent Kurdish documentaries
Ayşen Güven talked with names from different disciplines and several generations of theater on self-censorship in the theater scene
We talked about the censorship story of Kaos GL Magazine, one of the most rooted publications of the Turkish LGBTI+ movement, two issues of which were declared obscene in 2000 and 2006, with the Editor-in-Chief of that period, Umut Güner, and the lawyer of the Kaos GL Association, Hayriye Kara.
TV series on both digital platforms and TV channels often come to the fore with censorship. Ayşen Güven from Speak Up Platform spoke with TV screenwriters from Turkey whose works have been censored especially due to the portrayals of sexuality and sexual identities. The second of the two-part series will be with screenwriter Yelda Eroğlu
A lawsuit for annulment has been openned for Anadolu Kültür, of which human rights activist Osman Kavala is the founder and chairman of the board of directors, who has been held in prison despite the ECHR’s release decision. We talked to names that produced or got inspired in Anadolu Kültür, pointing out that for the first time in the history of the Republic, a lawsuit has been filed against a company on the grounds that “it carries out its activities similar to associations and foundations without profit”