Turkish TRT interrupted broadcast of the speech of leader of the Kurdish Public Democratic Party Ahmet Turka in the parliament when he started speaking in the Kurdish language, the CNN informs.

In the Press Council a meeting with delegation of journalists of Turkey who are in Baku at present takes place; www.mediaforum.az informs referring to “News-Azerbaijan”.

Owner of two Philadelphia newspapers starts a bankruptcy procedure, Associated Press informs on Monday, February, 23. AP notes that the company Philadelphia Newspapers issuing The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News newspapers has became the second media company submitted documents on bankruptcy for the last two days in the USA.

Presentation of the office and radio programs of “Media FM” took place. According to www.mediaforum.az, at the presentation ceremony hold on last Saturday executive director of “Media FM” Tural Aliyev told about works carried out at the time being and forthcoming plans.

The victim side didn't overdo with a neutral stand at the trial on Anna Politkovskaya's murder case, lawyer of the decedent journalist’s family, Anna Stavitzkaya said on Sunday.

The 17th anniversary of the Khojaly tragedy will be commemorated at about 50 embassies, consulates and foreign diplomatic representatives of Azerbaijan with the support of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation. The memory ceremonies dedicated to the anniversary of the Khojaly genocide will be held in Washington, New York, Warsaw, London, Hague, Dubai, Kiev, Moscow, Berlin, Strasbourg, Brussels, Bucharest, Geneva, Ankara, Istanbul, Prague, Paris, Tbilisi and other cities, the Foundation informed the TrendNews.

Since the end of last year, editor-in-chief of the “Gundalik Azerbaijan” and the “Realny Azerbaijan” newspapers, Eynulla Fatullayev has received numerous letters and postcards from separate foreign individuals and structures on the initiative of the Amnesty International Organization. According to the information on 18 February, E. Fatullayev has received so far about 11 thousand letters and postcards from abroad.

Editor-in-chief of the “Day.az” site, Elnur Bayimov said to “Mediaforum” that the “Day.az”, the “Today.az” and the Internet “Day.az-Radio” sites will resume their activity on 25 February: “We have already spread on the site the information about this. I can't make any additional comments”.

The US State Department has called on the Russian leadership to find the killers of Anna Politkovskaya - journalist of the “Novaya gazeta”, the Agence France Presse informed on 20 February. “We regret that the murder still hasn't been detected, the US State Department's envoy, Gordon Duguid said. We call on the Russian leadership to find the culprits of this crime as soon as possible and to call them to account”.

One of the most popular Internet news resources of Azerbaijan Day.Az is closed and hasn't been functioning for the second day. The web site was not only closed, the information about the site was completely removed from DNS servers. The English-language version of the project (today.az) informs that the project is closed.

The Foundation of Assistance to Journalist Protection and Freedom of Speech granted $1300 as financial aid to Azerbaijani journalists.

A Pakistani TV reporter was deadly shot in the head in the northwest Pakistani valley Swat mostly controlled by Talibs, the Agence France Presse informs.

The leadership of the American publishing house Conde Nast has decided to close the German version of the glossy 'Vanity Fair' magazine. Serious financial troubles faced by the Conde Nast over financial crisis caused the suspension, the AP informs.

The Paris-based organization for the protection of freedom of press “Reporters without borders” has shown the financial aid to the families of four convicted journalists in Azerbaijan, the IA “Turan” informs. On Tuesday, the Organization’s representative in Baku handed the money over to the spouses of Sakit Zakhidov, Mushfig Huseinov, Ganimat Zakhid and to the father of Eynulla Fatullayev.

Four malefactors have attempted to explode the building of the Greek Alter TV station located in the south of Athena, the AP informs. Nobody suffered as a result of the attack. The local police confirmed the information about the incident not disclosing the details however.