Adana Governorate bans Kolektîfa Rîtmên Azad Music Group from performing
Four members of the music group Kolektîfa Rîtmên Azad were prevented from performing at the March 8 rally due to ongoing investigations
Sibel Tekin acquitted
Documentary filmmaker and journalist Sibel Tekin acquitted of “illegal organization membership”
Ankara Governorate bans Queerfest
Ankara Governorate bans 12th Queerfest with the theme “Return to Ankara”
Qral û Travis play banned 1 hour before staging
The Kurdish theater play Qral û Travis was banned in Istanbul after Ağrı and Antep. Ugur Özsunar, brother and assistant of actor Bahoz Özsunar, detained
The documentary ‘Decree’ has been blocked
The General Directorate of Cinema of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism “did not approve the documentary for commercial circulation and screening”
Manga website Jiangzaitoon blocked for the third time
The website of Jiangzaitoon, a manga and webtoon translation team that produces content on manga culture and publishes comics in Turkish, was blocked for the third time
“Qral û Travis” theater play banned in Ağrı
Patnos District Governorate banned the theater play “Qral û Travis”, which was planned to be staged on January 17, on the grounds that it was “deemed unsuitable”
Governor was disturbed by the book at Çukurova Book Fair, poster of the book was removed allegedly
While the owner of Nergiz Publishing said that the promotional poster of the book was removed upon the instruction of the governor who was disturbed by the book titled “Coup on National Education”, Adana Governorate and Tüyap Coordinatorship, which organized the event, denied the allegations
Visual designer Berkay Kahvecioğlu sentenced for “insulting the president”
Kahvecioğlu was sentenced to 1 year and 2 months in prison for his work in which he used the expression “slut” used by President Erdoğan against the Gezi protesters with a portrait of the president
Court upholds RTÜK’s ban on “Kızıl Goncalar”
The court upheld the broadcast suspension and administrative fine imposed on the TV series; the new episode of the series will not be broadcast tonight