Rahîm Er is a Turkish

Turkey

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 author

Author

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 and lawyer

Lawyer

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. He is currently the chairman of board of BKY-Babıali Kültür Yayıncılığı A.Ş, a publishing

Publishing

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 company based in İstanbul

Istanbul

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 and also the owner of Haber Kuşağı (haberkusagi.com), an online Turkish

Turkish language

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 newspaper.

Biography

After graduating from Adana Erkek Lisesi in 1969, he graduated from the Faculty of Law of İstanbul University

Istanbul University

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 in 1974. He is a member of the İstanbul Bar Association and the Union of Turkish Bars. In 1970 he joined Türkiye daily newspaper and started to write daily columns. Er was the founding general managers of Türkiye Çocuk, weekly magazine for children; TGRT, a national Turkish television channel which was bought by Fox Broadcasting Company

Fox Broadcasting Company

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 and changed to its current name Fox

Fox Turkey

-History:TGRT launched on April 22, 1993 that was owned by Huzur Radyo TV A.Ş belongs to İhlas Holding.The channel was bought by News Corporation with Ahmet Ertegün on July 26, 2006 and changed to its current name Fox on February 24, 2007....

; and İhlas Databank which was changed to its current name ihlas.net, one of the first internet service providers in Turkey

Turkey

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. He hosted television and radio programs on TGRT and TGRT FM from 1996.

Rahîm Er is the author of books entitled Sevgili Peygamberim, İmparatorluk Coğrafyasında Diplomasi Koşturmak, Örsteki Ülke Türkiye, and Hayatın Rengi İnsan. He currently has a column which is entitled Entellektüel Boyut (English

English language

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: Intellectual Dimension) in Türkiye daily newspaper.

In the year of 2008, Er was prosecuted within controversial Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code because of his opinions criticising the Court of Cassation of Turkey

Turkey

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. Even though he was criticising the Court of Cassation because of the length of trials, heavy backlog, and its hidden resistance to the establishment of regional courts of appeals in Turkey

Turkey

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, Er was charged with insulting an institution of the Republic of Turkey by chief public prosecutor's office in Bakırköy

Bakirköy

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. However, since a series of changes were made on the Article 301

Article 301 (Turkish penal code)

Article 301 is a controversial article of the Turkish Penal Code making it illegal to insult Turkey, the Turkish ethnicity, or Turkish government institutions...

 on April 30, 2008, including a new amendment which makes it obligatory to get the approval of the minister of justice to file a case regarding the Article 301

Article 301 (Turkish penal code)

Article 301 is a controversial article of the Turkish Penal Code making it illegal to insult Turkey, the Turkish ethnicity, or Turkish government institutions...

, this prosecution was stroke out by the dismissal of the minister of justice.