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Kurdish Students Will Return to School

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.

Dev- Yol Trial Continues for 22 Years

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.

26 August 2002 Yaşar Kanbur

Excavations Ended at Soli, Protection Needed

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.

Gold Medalist Sureyya Ayhan Runs For Her Kind

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.

19 August 2002 Nadire Mater,Ertuğrul Kürkçü

Denktash Panic Over NGOs Call for Solution

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.

Women Ask: Why Does Turkey Need AWACS?

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.

Süreyya Ayhan - Turkeys Secret Weapon

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.

14 August 2002 Doug Gıllon

Call for Release of Cypriot Journalists

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.

Turkish Cypriots Urge for Immidiate Solution

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.

Sokaktan

Who is the Biggest Traitor?

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.

10 August 2002 Şener Levent

Reforms In Baggage Turkey Knocks EUs Door

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.

8 August 2002 Nadire Mater,Ertuğrul Kürkçü

Reforms Not Enough, Implementation Essential

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.

8 August 2002 Erol Önderoğlu

US Pushes Turkey Toward The Red Line

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.

7 August 2002 Ertuğrul Kürkçü

80 Years List : Victims of Death Penalty

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.

Abolition of Death Penalty Welcomed

Amnesty International welcomes Turkeys abolishing of the death penalty in peacetime.

Turkey Abolished the Death Penalty

Council of Europe Secretary General Schwimmer said that this vote would be a major step forward for human rights in Turkey, in his press release in August 2.

Armenian Journalists Visited Turkey Again

This is the third meeting of Armenian and Turkish journalists under the project stipulating mutual visits of Armenian and Turkish journalists to learn about the lives of the two countries and the subsequent coverage in their media.

Turkey Prepares the Worst Scenario in Iraq

Known for his staunch opposition against war on Iraq, the apparent shift in Prime Minister Bulent Ecevits tone follows series of meetings with Robert Pearson, US ambassador to Ankara.

1 August 2002 Nadire Mater,Ertuğrul Kürkçü

Industrialists Against the Iraq Operation

The business premises of Adana, Gaziantep and Diyarbakir, are worried about the effects on economy of a prospective attack on Iraq. They are uneasy because such an operation would interfere with the gas transportation and increase migration to the cities.

Turkey: Claim Over Arab Lands

A major United Arab Emirates Arabic daily: Anytime there is escalation in the US threat of striking Iraq, the Turkish media and political circles react in such a way that reflects the historic Turkish crave after Arab lands, especially Kirkuk and Mosul.

The Mausoleums of Mem and Zin are Restored

Ahmedi Xani had written in Kurdish, about the eternal love of Mem and Zin in Cizre, during the years 1450-1451, 240 years after they died. Mayor Yildirim declared that Mem and Zins 500-years-old mausoleums would be restored for the first time.

Calling Elections, Government Stalls for Time

All this uncertainty about timing could eclipse the political uncertainty that surrounded the latest crisis. Yet Turks and their neighbors need to worry about how this ongoing confusion will impair IMFs latest efforts to force economic reforms.

23 July 2002 Mevlut Katık

Americans of Incirlik Base Examine Hospital

American soldiers from the Incirlik Air Base reportedly visited and examined the hospitals in Batman. Private Sifa Hospital officials said: The Americans wanted to find out about our capacity in every aspect and so we showed them the present atmosphere.

Americans Book Leads to Charge Against Turk

Within days of its publication, Mr. Randals book was banned in Turkey and Mr. Keskin was charged with spreading separatist propaganda by the State Security Court in Istanbul.

22 July 2002 Alan Rıdıng

Old Faces Spark Fresh Hopes Out of Impasse

New Formmation sparks fresh expectations among the Turkish business community, liberal intellectuals and trade union leaders who believe that the only way out of Turkeys present woes is accession to European Union membership.

18 July 2002 Nadire Mater,Ertuğrul Kürkçü

Turkeys Political Crisis Could Affect Region

An election could produce an unexpected result. The hope of the business and financial elite, along with many members of the urban middle class, is that Cem, Dervis and Ozkan, will form a dream team party to unite the center.

16 July 2002 Jon Gorvett

Iraq Operation Not Realistic

Syrian Journalist Husnu Mahalli: The USA states that it will attack Iraq. But the only country in the region, which has nuclear weapons, is Israel. Such an operation would lead to ethnic and sectarian clashes in the region.

12 July 2002 Burçin Belge

MHP Shouldnt Take Place in the Government

Prof. Uskul: I dont think that the political parties, could risk an election. The new political group formed by the ministers and party legislators who have left the DSP, can come up with an election government with ANAP, DYP and AKP support.

10 July 2002 Hamza Aktan

Girls Kept Out of Formal Education

According to the Ministry of National Education, 152 thousand and 703 girls in Turkey, who should be receiving compulsory primary education, were kept out of formal education this year.

Elections, EU Membership, Turkey and Cyprus

CTP sees the election result as a sign of the peoples wish to enter the EU, journalist Levent claims, Turkey will incur a clash. The former minister Erbilen says: the results will not create much of a change, but has to be more far-sighted.

4 July 2002 Hamza Aktan

A Woman Mayor in Mardin

Deriks mayor Ayse Karadag has to go through the difficulties of being a woman mayor in a region where feudal relations have weight. She got votes from the police too. And, Deriks roads are asphalted in her tine after 65 years.

26 June 2002 Bircan Değirmenci