Students Ferhat Tüzer and Berna Yılmaz were released pending trial on 6 October. They stand accused of "membership of an illegal organization" and "propaganda" . They are on trial on the grounds of a banner they had posted to demand free education.

The five defendants tried for having supported conscientious objector Enver Aydemir appeared before the court at their third hearing in Eskişehir on 6 October. Lawyer Doğanoğlu reiterated his request to call a gynaecologist for an expert opinion.

The Platform for Solidarity with Arrested Journalists denounced the custodies of Özgür Gündem editor Şeker and Azadiya Welat newspaper writer Temel and the arrest of DİHA reporter Yıldız. The platform regards the latest incidents as an attack on press freedom.

According to the revised Civil Procedure Law, the cost for opening a trial at a civil court has to be paid in advance. Lawyer Tekay criticized, "Efforts to speed up judiciary processes should be done by increasing the budget instead of restricting the freedom to seek your right".

The book "Nurjuvazi" might be seized upon a criminal complaint filed by the Bank of Asia. The bank put forward that the book by Eren Erdem "incites the public to hatred and hostility" and "opposes the Anti-Terror Law".

The "citizen informant" application as previously applied in the USA and Germany is now on the Turkish agenda again. Law experts deem the application an "implementation of a military junta" and warned that unfounded denunciations will not be sanctioned.

92 members of the Peace and Democracy Party were taken into police custody in the course of a KCK operation in Istanbul on 4 October. At the same time, dozens of people were taken into custody in Diyarbakır, Gaziantep, Ankara, Derik, Batman and Kurtalan.

Interpreter Uncu and publishing company owner Çıplak are each facing up to three years in jail on charges of "conveying the publication of obscene publications" on the grounds of the book "Ölüm Pornosu" by Chuck Palahniuk in orginal.

The militant Kurdistan Workers' Party released four workers and four village guards. One special sergeant was kidnapped. 19 people are still being kept hostage, including twelve teachers.

Government Spokesman Arınç invited media executives to a meeting on "processing terror news". Experts and top-level executives in the Turkish media evaluated such a meeting for bianet.

Özçelik, eye-witness of the massacre at the Ulucanlar Prison in 1999, claims that the operation was planned in advance. He recalled the incidents from his memory in an interview with bianet.

Members and executives of the Human Rights Association, the education union and the social service sector union were taken into custody in Urfa on 27 September. Private homes and the branch head offices were searched.

A Woman and a child died in an armed attack on a police car in Batman in the South-East. One police officer and three civilians were wounded.

Seven people on trial in relation to the incidents in Hopa in June this year were now acquitted of charges of "making propaganda for a terrorist organization". The remaining allegations put up against them will be handled by a different court.

30 out of a total of 34 people who were taken into police custody in the context of a KCK operation were now arrested on charges of "membership of a terrorist organization".

Based on the application of conscientious objector Ülke, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe urged Turkey to declare concrete steps to be taken by Turkey until December regarding the right to conscientious objection.

Fatoş Güney, widowed wife of film director Yılmaz Güney, criticized in her speech at the Adana Altın Koza Fim Festival that Güney's movies are still being banned from broadcasts on the Kurdish-language state channel TRT 6.

A soldier and two village guards were killed in armed conflicts with the PKK in Van. An attack on a police team in Diyarbakır left one police officer dead. A total of twelve people died in armed clashes within the past four days.

TAK, an armed wing of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, assumed responsibility for the explosion of a minibus in Ankara on 20 September. Three people died in the blast.

The assailant who detonated a bomb in a minibus in Ankara on 20 September was reportedly filmed by public cameras. Three people died in the blast.