On 3 March, the ANGA organization and activists for freedom of journalists demonstrated in Istanbul to mark the first anniversary of the arrest of journalists Şık and Şener. Their message: "You cannot silence us by imprisoning journalists and laying them off".

University students Alkan and Söylemez were detained for six months on the grounds of certain posters they carried before they were released pending trial. Due to a recent legal amendment the prosecutor was allowed additional time till the next hearing to present his final plea.

Access was banned to the kizilhack.org (RedHack) website on the grounds of alleged catalogue crimes as mentioned in Law No. 5651. Internet experts Akdeniz and Altıparmak criticized the access ban saying that the activities of Redhack were not included in the catalogue crimes.

Reporters Without Borders appreciated the French Constitutional Court's decision against the law proposal related the denial of genocide. The international organization now urged Turkish authorities to fulfil their responsibilities regarding free speech.

Journalist murders/trials, imprisoned journalists, attacks, threats, and restraints, inquiries, trials, decisions, publication bans, defamation, personal rights and compensation cases, RTUK and ECHR decisions.

Specialist Biçer doubts the statement that the human bones found in a mass grave in Diyarbakır were a hundred years old. He said that the report of the Forensic Medicine Institute was insufficient and announced to apply for an independent investigation.

The trial about the murder of journalist Cihan Hayırsevener was continued on 28 February. 18 defendants are in the dock due to the murder and also on the grounds of corruption in tenders. Just as in the two previous sessions, the secret witness did not appear at court again.

A bus of the riot forces was bombed in front of the AKP Provincial Presidency and the Association of Independent Industrialists and Businessmen in Istanbul this morning. Ten policemen were slightly injured in the attack.

"We Disapprove" is the name and theme of a signature campaign launched by the Artists Initiative. With their campaign the artists take a stance against the oppression of all opposition groups including artists. Renowned Turkish artists like Edip Akbayram or Levent Kırca support the campaign.

The French Constitutional Council found the draft bill on the criminalization of the denial of genocide contrary to the constitution. The members of the French parliament who applied to the council announced to lift the law.

Murat Polat died as the result of torture in a military prison during his military service in 2005. 30 soldiers were tried, among them also commanders. At the end of the trial, one private was sentenced to imprisonment.

The Greek Baklahorani Carnival was celebrated in big style for the first time since 71 years in Istanbul on 26/27 February. A costumed crowed took over Taksim Square on Sunday; a masked parade took a cheerful course from Feriköy to Tatavla (Kurtuluş) on Shrove Monday.