According to Prof. Dr. Ergil, the PKK will be weakened, but not destroyed by the attacks. A more comprehensive package addressing the Kurdish question is necessary.

In the last two years, there have been three murder cases of Christians in Turkey. Now a priest in Izmir has been wounded by a young man.

The European Peace Parliament, the Human Rights Association and the Labour Party have protested against cross-border operations: "Violence has not solved anything up to now."

Writer Perihan Magden has been given a one year and two month suspended prison sentence for reporting on what people said about the then district governor (kaymakam) Aytac Akgül in Yüksekova, in the southeastern province of Hakkari.

The four-year trial of singer Ferhat Tunc, who criticised the imprisonment of Leyla Zana in the "Gündem" newspaper, has still not ended.

The General Staff has announced that PKK targets on Kandil mountain have been bombed, and that attacks were not aimed at people living in Northern Iraq. Reuters says that 10 villages were hit, homes and schools ruined.

A military court in Van has released the three suspects, two of them soldiers, in the Semdinli bombing trial. They will be tried without detention. Joint attorneys walked out of the hearing.

The IPA has protested against the long duration of the court case against Zarakolu, as well as against the charges brought.

The Turkish Human Rights Foundation has condemned the death of Kever Mizrak on the hands of police: "The police and gendarmerie do not use guns as a last resort."

The "Constitutional Platform Initiative" which met in workshops at the weekend has published a statement.

The ECHR has found Turkey's decision to ban the publication of the Azadiya Welat newspaper for a week wrong.

Journalists Irfan Ucar and Umur Hozatli are still charged under Article 301 for criticising losses and rights violations. Ferhat Tunc is in court today.