Ayar from AKP, Vecdi Gonul could be the prime minister; Dogan from AKP, We will change the healthcare system; Ergun from AKP, Politics have become centralized and table; Gun from CHP, We need to reestablish the moral values we have lost.

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AKP supports Turkeys EU membership. The party is against a military strike by the U.S. against Iraq. AKP does not touch on military spending and the issue of headscarves, and promises to restructure the higher education system.

Rise in votes and seats and two principal reasons of the political upheaval. The elimination of the traditional parties in Parliament is explained in particular by a double protest by the popular strata of the big cities and Anatolia.

The parties that defended the 10 percent threshold level fell victims to the threshold. Out of 18 parties that were able to run in elections in Turkey where there are 51 parties, 16 parties fell out of parliament. AKP became the single leading party...

Unions, NGOs and political parties prepared a Peace Communiqué against a possible military strike on Iraq by the U.S: The U.S. intervention in the region would bring death, not democracy. We are raising our voices against war and poverty.

The European Commission Turkey Representation expects Turkey to confirm its commitments to reforms in order to comply with the EU-accession criteria.

AKP:Is a melange of some leftist ideas packed in an Islamic cover, symbols of modernization used without style and the formerly held Islamist views masked against legal persecution.

Lawyers Keskin and Karakas recounted what S.Y. and N.C. went through under detention in September: They now use methods that are hard to prove, but that leave deep scars in the memory

The Belgian Union of Professional Journalists (AGJPB), on October 23, 2002, officially protested against the indictment of Dogan Özgüden, Info-Türk chief editor, by the Turkish justice.

After failing to be recommended for membership of the European Union, Turkey is clinging to faint hopes that the EU Council comprising heads of government will take a political decision to give Turkey at least a date for accession talks.

SP deputy Bekaraoglu, during an anti - was demonstration, said: Some people are bargaining with the U.S. over the life of the Turkish soldiers. The weapon companies that got Bush elected, now want him to start a war, so that they can sell their weapons.

Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the European Union Strategy Paper and Progress Report Regarding the Cyprus Issue: Turkey expects the EU Council not to make a historical mistake by relying on the relevant Commission reports.

Scholor Aktar: The negativeness of the progress report is due to the weaknesses of the commission. It has come in very handy for the anti-EU circles. The general elections has already been affected in such a way to benefit the anti-EU parties.

HRW: EU report on Turkeys progress toward membership due out Wednesday EU report on Turkeys progress toward membership due out Wednesday could signal whether the EU considers recent reforms enough for Turkey to start membership negotiations.

The head of the Chamber of Architects, Gursel, believes that the findings excavated at the antique City of Zeugma should be preserved and exhibited. This would contribute to Gazianteps and the regions economy according to Gursel.

Independent Kurdish intelectual Umit Firat believes that Turkeys concerns are not about security, but about freedom: Ankara cannot stand the fact that the Kurds outside Turkey are granted more rights than Turkeys Kurds.

In the first 9 months of 2002, 51 books were banned in Turkey. As a promising development, 11 of these were acquitted. But 4 books were sentenced. 42 books were banned in 2001.

Scholar Gerger said: This treatment is part of the 11 September syndrome, but cannot prevent me from defending human rights and fighting against the USAs belligerent policies.

Ulgen, the owner of the English Fast language institute, may not establish a Kurdish Fast class. The Education Ministry did not approve teaching Kurdish at the language institutes where every other language is taught.