A group of rights activists has started a campaign against the 10-year prison sentence handed down to Kurdish politician Leyla Zana.

Former prosecutor Kayasu has applied to the Adana prosecution to process the indictment he prepared in 2000.

A Minority Rights Group reports calls on the Turkish government to introduce necessary amendments in law to allow education in mother tongues as well as clearing curriculum of nationalistic and discriminatory approaches.

The findings of the second project of monitoring Turkish school books for human rights violations, run by the History Foundation and the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey, have been published as a book.

In 2008, 82 people were tried under Article 301, 44 under the Anti-Terrorist Law. Freedoms of press and expression have been damaged by political polarisation, the lack of a solution to the Kurdish issue and the intolerance of criticism.

Following the detention of fifty people in six different cities on 10 March, eight of them have been arrested. One of them is Çobanoğlu, an independent socialist candidate for mayor in Antakya.

After the find of bones and flannel on 9 March in one well, the opening of another well has revealed bones, hair and clothing.

Parties and organisations have protested against the arrests of members and employees of BEKSAV, ESP, Atılım newspaper and the Güneş Agency.

The International Press Institute (IPI), based in Vienna, has released a press statement urging European Commission leaders to consider press freedom a priority when negotiating with Turkey.

In a second attempt, an alleged site of burial utilized by the illegal JİTEM is excavated. Human bones were found on March 9. Investigation could shed light on extra-judicial killings in 1990s.

22 people were killed when several gunmen open fire on cafes in Gazi district, where Alevites make up most of the population. "Despite high hopes, Ergenekon case failed to taken on Gazi's initiators," says ÇGD.

Three journalists were attacked during a DTP meeting in Adana on March 7th. In February, three others were assaulted during protests in Diyarbakır. An MP allegedly threatens a journalist in Tarsus.

TÜBİTAK, the central council on public science policies, is criticized following an alleged censorship on Darwin in its popular monthly magazine. Science circles react to this "reactionary incident".

Despite demands by NGOs to stop the screening of the racist "documentary" "'Sarı Gelin' - The Inside Story of the Armenian Problem", the Ministry of Education is expecting reports on the film from teachers.

Reporters were kept away from the wells in the military zone of Silopi where excavations were carried out under the supervision of the prosecution and lawyers.

Demanding their lost relatives be found, Saturday Mothers met for the 206th time in Galatasaray. This time, they brought the case of Hasan Gülünay, who disappeared in July 1992, to attention.

Writer Karin Karakaşlı spoke at a panel on “The other’s other: Armenian women”, saying that every identity requires labour and has a price. Kayuş Çalıkman Gavrilof spoke of the need for women to organise.

The International Publishers Association has called on the EU to support independent publishers in Turkey who are being restricted by Article 301 and face financial ruin because of court cases.

Women’s Day was celebrated by around six thousand women, many of them Kurdih. Workers and feminists were also part of the crowd.

Emre Günaydın, main suspect in the murder of three Protestant pastors in Malatya, has taken back his statement accusing Varol Bülent Aral of inciting him and his friends to the murder.