Perinçek from the Human Rights Association and Bilgen from the Peace Assembly want the deputies to refuse the proposal to permit the Armed Forces to have operations in Iraq. Instead, they propose more peaceful options such as forming a commission for the Kurdish problem.

The newspaper Alternatif has been banned for publishing the views of Abdullah Öcalan, imprisoned leader of the Kurdish Workers Party, and Murat Karayılan, a high-level officer of the same party.

Small tradesperson Yunus Atalay, Peace Mother Hadiye Dur and worker Mahfuz Türkan had gone to the European Court of Human Rights, when their efforts to seek justice in Turkey had not brought any results. The Court sentenced Turkey on the grounds of bad treatment for the three applications.

The court sentenced the members of the organization committee of the Adana Newroz celebration after two years for “doing propaganda work for the Kurdish Workers Party”. The members are planning to appeal the decision.

Sakarya’s Chief Prosecutor files a lawsuit against Aziz Koçak, the head of the Democratic Society Party's (DTP) Sakarya branch, for the “Peace and Brotherhood” night festival organized by them, which was attacked by a big crowd of far right nationalists and besieged for hours.

Bahçelievler District Governorship did not grant permission for the investigation of the police officers who had attacked reporters Esra Açıkgöz and Ali Deniz Uslu, and activist Songül Çiftçi at the May Day police violence.

Journalist Cengiz Kapmaz is sentenced to 10 months in prison for his interview with former Democracy Party (DEP) deputy Orhan Doğan, who had said in the interview that the PKK should be permitted to do politics.

In the panel held for the birthday of Hrant Dink, the participants urged for more decisive struggle against discrimination.

Ministry of Justice refused to give permission for the trials of Nurettin Demirtaş and Selma Irmak, former DTP party officers, under article 301. Both individuals were on trial for voicing the allegation of chemical weapons regarding the Turkish Armed Forces.

Many intellectuals, journalists, non-governmental organizations and activist under an initiative to keep the Democratic Society Party (DTP) open have started collecting signatures to support the DTP.

Ahmet Türk submited the oral defense for the Democratic Society Party and he said at the end that he was positive about the outcome of the case. Türk demanded that the European Human Rights Court and the Venice Criteria be taken into consideration.

The Democratic Society Party is getting ready to take the arbitrary police raid to its Van branch office to the court. Recently there has been an increase in attacks to the DTP offices.