Interviews in Kurdish in news stories from southeastern Turkey are shown on national television with Turkish subtitles. Nevertheless, there are no legally operating radio or television stations with an explicitly Kurdish character, and attempts to found such networks have been shut down. Only a handful of small weekly newspapers or journals publish entirely or partly in Kurdish, even though there are no legal restrictions. Inevitably, magazines publishing in Kurdish tend to analyze the broader issues surrounding the Kurdish minority and will always come to the notice of at least the press prosecutor, and very likely the police Anti-Terror Branch. Hevi takes a moderate political line.
Most prosecutions relate to Turkish language articles rather than Kurdish ones.
In fact, writing about Kurdish politics in any language is much more dangerous than merely writing in Kurdish. In those two years, six of its reporters and twelve of its distributors were killed by assassins believed to be linked to the state. Political journalism in southeast Turkey remains a dangerous profession. According to the May report of Reporters sans Frontieres, he was blindfolded and taken to the riot squad section of the city's police headquarters where his detention was only acknowledged after five days. He reported being stripped, threatened with rape, beaten on the testicles, and soaked with cold water.