Sancar, MithatTemiz, Özgür2022-04-282022-04-282007http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12575/79727The press, which is at the center of a democratic society and its political debates, makes use of its freedom as its the subject of right. Yet, for the interpretation of freedom of expression, the press makes it possible for `expression? not as a one-sided way but as an interactional right including the targeted recievers. In return for this, it is not only a right that the press provides information and news but also it is a democratic duty of the press towards the receivers and the whole public.In Turkey, the press has been purposed to be a tool for propoganda during the pre-Republic period and Republic period?s martial law, military interventions and through the laws, notifications or decrees. Throughout this period, the the right for criticism, the right to disseminate ideas and to air news independently, as well the public?s right to get informed has been massively damaged. Although after the analysis of Laws and Constitutions the rules of cencorship were never enacted during the Republic, through emergency laws and during the state of emergency some arragements which might stand for cencorship and implications which might substitute for arrangements were conducted as opposed to the press laws and the Constitution.The principles of the European Convention on Human Rights and Trials, which constitutes the base of Turkish laws and other arragements related to the freedom of the Press, have neither been stated in the local courts as caselaw nor used as a source in the laws. Yet, there is no legal barrier for the implication of this liberal thinking which has been laid down by the above mentioned principles and whose meaning is fully realized as freedom of debate in a democratic society. Although it cannot be stated that the freedom of the Press is restricted by cencorship, bans and authorization-permission, this dangers always sustain its existence through obscure statements and the states of emergencies.trAnayasa 1924Constitution 1924Press crimesBasın tarihiBasın özgürlüğümasterThesis