1,350 voters from three villages have decided to turn in empty ballots. Complaining of lack of basic services such as roads, water, health and education, the headmen are angry: They did not even respond our demands.> the> politicians: We wr

Cypriot Fileleftheros Newspaper wrote that Annan would put forward an ultimatum-like solution proposal. Haravgi newspaper said that Denktas and Clerides talked about sovereignty. According to daily Mahi, no steps have been taken at the negotiation talks.

The State Security Court ordered the confiscation of the Fall 2002 issue of Serbesti Magazine, saying that it disseminated separatist propaganda. The magazines publication committee condemned the censoring mentality of the Turkish state.

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Akad, the provincial head of HADEP, says that the officials are pressuring the party with the aim of preventing voter registrations. 27 headmen have been removed from their posts for allegedly mediating fake voter registrations.

The National Security Council decided in its last meeting that the students,who were expelled for signing petitions demanding Kurdish lessons, could return to school. With this decision, a minimum of 1,445 students will be able to go back to school.

The Revoluatarny path Dev-Yol trial continues even after 22 years. Opened under the Military rule, the case comprises 723 Dev-Yol affilates 23 of whom are sentenced to death. The local court converted death penalties for imprisonment for life.

Excavations at Soli Pompeipolis have been completed. The teams that have left the region are worried about the town, where they came across the remains of five separate periods, could be looted. The efforts to declare the region a Museum Town,continue.

My answer is my success, says a proud Sureyya Ayhan. I ran not only against my rivals but also against rumors, slanders, lies and gossips at home. I am happy that I beat them all.

It points out that the Cyprus problem should be solved before the end of the year and that the Turkish Cypriots and the people of Turkey would suffer the most if a solution was not reached by then.

Selek from Peace Promoters, Salman from Womens Platform for Selek of Peace Promoters, Salman of Womens Platform for Peace, Ciftci of HADEP, Keskin of IHD, Temurturkan of ODP, and Seyman of SHP are against Turkeys purchase of four AWACS.

The 23-year-old Ayhan won in 3min 58.79sec, denying Szabo by just two hundredths of a second. A long way back, in a lifetime best of 4:01.28, was the Russian Tatyana Tomashova.

IFJ is calling for the immediate and unconditional release of Sener Levent and Memduh Ener and for an end to the on-going legal actions against the newspaper which, says the federation, amount to a continuation of a long-running campaign of harassment.

86 Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus NGOs representing a wide spectrum of the Turkish Cypriots on July 9 urged for an immediate political solution to the long standing Cyprus question.

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Sener Levent, the director of the Afrika published in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, and writer Ener were arrested and sent to prison because of an article. The article, which was published in the Avrupa newspaper in 1999, reads as follows.

Package abolishes death penalty, brings freedom of education and broadcast in non-Turkish languages, freedom of criticism of the state organs, easing restrictions against foreign NGOs working in Turkey, greater freedom for non-Muslim minority foundations.

Lawyer Ilkiz, journalist Boncuk and activist Yurdatapan comments on Turkeys move to abolish death penalty, allow Kurdish education and broadcasts, and grant broader freedom of expression.

With the nationalists likely to make these new laws the central issue in early parliamentary elections scheduled for November 3, there will seemingly be little public pressure on Ankara not to follow Washingtons lead on intervention in Iraq.

712 people including 15 women, have been executed during the last 80 years. At the moment, 1500 people trials are continuing, face death penalty. 125 people have been sentenced to death penalty which was abolished in August 3.