TRT Radio 1 and TRT 3 TV broadcasted in the Circassion language Thursday, following the Bosnian, Arabic and Kirmanji. Besides common news programs, three songs by the Circassians Folkloric Dance Group were also broadcasted.

Turkey as a democratic partner, Italy on behalf of G-8 and Yemen on behalf of regional countries became co-president of the mechanism. Details will become clear in the course of transition period.

The day Kurdish broadcast was launched, the High Appeals Court ruled to release the four former DEP Deputies Zana, Dicle, Sadak and Dogan. In this way, the two excuses which the European Union asserted, were eliminated.

TRT 3 TV broadcasted programs in Kirmanji dialect of Kurdish. The channel showed the video clip of Mirkut by Kardes Turkuler music group and talked about the Diyarbakir Culture and Arts Festival. There will be Kirmanji broadcasts every Wednesday.

Lawyer Alatas applied to the Supreme Court of Appeals and demanded that former DEP lawmakers are released. The Supreme Court of Appeals released the lawmakers on Wednesday. It will decide on a retrial on July 8.

Journalist Baskaya and publicist Erdogan face up to three years in prison for a book called, Articles Against the Flow.

Kurdish Institute head Beyaz said broadcasts in the Kirmanji dialect are too short when the need is taken into account. But Beyaz believes that the European Union criteria have been met. Beyaz criticized TRTs package programs.

The four former Democracy Party deputies Leyla Zana, Hatip Dicle, Selim Sadak and Orhan Dogan who were sentenced to a 15-year prison after the retrial were released after orders by High Appeals Court.

European Parliament President Pat Cox welcomed on Wednesday Turkish Court of Appeals decision to release four former DEP deputies Zana, Dicle, Dogan and Sadak.

If Parliament approved the decision of the investigation commission, former Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz and state minister Gunes Taner will stand trials at the High Tribunal Court in connection with the embezzlement in the Turkbank bid.

Will Turkey with its great potentials have no problem at all in finding a new channel to flow through as claimed by Prime Minister Erdogan. There, unfortunately, exists no other regional integration alternative that is attractive for Turkey.

Istanbul suffered a series of devastating suicide truck bomb attacks targeting Synagogues and on HSBC Bank headquarters and British Consulate on November in which 61 people were killed and more than 700 people were injured.

Egitim-Sen Diyarbakir head Babaoglu met with teachers who made the students perform barefoot at the May 19 ceremonies: Teachers, who organize the ceremony with a military mentality, and who fear being sent to other schools, dont think students health.

Prime minister Gul maintained that there was no possibility that the Greek-Cypriots could derail a possible positive conclusion related to Turkey at the EU Summit.

IHD deputy head Keskins request to change her name to Xezal, and Bicicis request to change her name to Xece. were rejected. The letter X could lead to administrative problems, said the court. Use the letter H but pronounce it differently.

Religious high schools should accept students according to the need for imams and preachers, said Dr. Kozanoglu. YOK should be abolished and university systems should be planned by a higher board comprising of university components.

Prof. Dr. Azrak said, If the specialty courts to be set up to replace DGMs have the same trial system as DGMs, the Constitutional amendment will have no meaning.

Leading European dailies said that there was a dangerous quarrel between the Turkish government and the army, Turkey underwent its deepest crisis since the permit to send troops to Iraq, and the secularism principle of Turkey was damaged.

Amendments to article 90 placed international human rights law above internal law, said Professor Uskul. This is important in making the legal system more effective in guaranteeing human rights.

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