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ŞANAR YURDATAPAN Sanar Yurdatapan Video interview with the Turkish composer and human rights activist, and director of the Association for Freedom of Expression, Şanar Yurdatapan 06 December 2006 Turkey: Şanar Yurdatapan: 'There is a lot of work to do for all of us' In 2012, there were no acticities marking Music Freedom Day in Turkey. "This means the work is not over yet," wrote Sanar Yurdatapan in his chronicle on the day 03 March 2012 Turkey: Three children stand trial for singing a march in Kurdish Three members of a Kurdish children's choir face prison charges by Turkish prosecutors for simply singing an old Kurdish song 09 June 2008 3rd Freemuse World Conference on Music and Censorship 200 professional musicians, scholars, and composers from 22 countries met at the 3rd Freemuse World Conference on 25-26 November 2006 in Istanbul, Turkey 18 December 2006 Stephan Smith-Said Video interview with the American musician and political activist Stephan Smith-Said (and others) about the importance of music and of fighting music censorship 06 December 2006 Speakers of the 3rd Freemuse World Conference Speakers at 3rd Freemuse World Conference in Istanbul - 25-26 November 2006 05 December 2006 Turkey: Anti-censorship initiative launched A new initiative against censorship was born when artists from Turkey launched the SSS - Sanatta Sansüre Son - which means "End to Censorship on Arts" 30 November 2006 Dangerous Music Listen to 2nd World Conference on Music and Censorship broadcast from Radio Netherlands . Interviews with Gerald Seligman, Executive Committee member of Freemuse, Farhad Darya ( Afghanistan), Sanar Yurdatapan (Turkey) 08 January 2003 Turkey: Ferhat Tunç again to appear before court Ferhat Tunç will be tried due to article 159 of the (former Turkish Penal Code) because of using the phrase “deep judiciary” in an article he wrote. The first hearing will be held on December 2nd, 2004. Proposed sentence is imprisonment of 1 to 3 years 20 October 2004 Turkey: Censorship Past and Present A historical approach to the nature of censorship. Article. 01 October 2004