Description of Incident: On 6 February, Diyarbakir Criminal Court No.2 continued to hear the case of the executives of the local TV station G¸n TV in Diyarbakir. The court decided not to be responsible to hear this case. Television executives, Baki Demirhan, Nevzat Bing–l, Osman ÷zsat, Zafer G¸r and Semsettin Yildirim were charged with insulting the armed forces (a violation of article 159 of the Turkish Penal Code) for playing the song "De Xalo" (Uncle) on 4 October 2001. The managing director Cemal Dogan was fined TL 34 billion 285 million because of 11 songs played on the station. The fine was reportedly due to violation of the Article 9/2 of the Law on Cinema, Video and Music Productions.

Results of Incident: Dogan the managing director of teh station stated that since the station had never received the list of banned songs from the Ministry of Culture, he would not pay the fine.