EP calls for more reforms on freedom of opinion, religious and minority, women and cultural rights, civilian-military relations, unions and impartiality of justice. Evaluation report adopted by General Assembly asks Ankara to open ports to Greek Cyprus.

Lawyer Asci lived through the 175th consecutive day of his one-man hunger strike on Tuesday in protest of isolation treatment in maximum-security F-type prisons. Justice Ministry has so far failed to take any steps on issue.

Following his arbitrary arrest, 3 days in prison and around a week of being held at a police station, artist Dickinson was finally released. He was hosted in a dirty isolation cell, left hungry and sleepless while made to listen to the police beating.

More than 110 people including journalists have been rounded up in a major operation aiming to crush a leftwing organization.Unions, associations, newspaper bureaus and a radio station have been searched by police. 82 still under custody, 30 detained.

Human Rights Foundation discloses that 96 people have appeared before courts in 2006 on charges related only to what they wrote. Onen says: The very soul of the Penal, Anti-Terror, Protection of Ataturk, Press and RTUK codes must be changed.

Court acquits Mayor Demirbas on charges of propaganda in European Social Forum statement titled Municipalities and Local Administrations in the Light of the Multilingualism. Case was launched on grounds that the PKK also demands Kurdish language rights.

Human rights groups are warning to authorities on the outlawed activities of intervening Jurists Union demanding measures and an investigation. Concerns mount over security at court due to rightwing groups public appeal to display national unity.

Four newsmen and five human rights activists involved in securing and covering the release of a Turkish soldier kidnapped by the PKK are to be tried at High Criminal Court unless their appeal is accepted. Prosecutor currently demands 5 years jail for each

Diyarbakir prosecutors have demanded 9 years imprisonment for IHD Provincial Chairman Selahattin Demirtas due to remarks he made on Gun TV and Roj TV. Demirtas is accused of propaganda for terror organization.

Chief of Staff Prosecutors Office charges retired General Tokat for public revelation of ordering clandestine street bombings in Southeast Turkey. Rights activists insist retired commander should be put on trial for human rights violations.

Public Prosecutors Office probes Ankara Bar Association in wake of decision to halt all obligatory counsel services as of Wednesday, following governments failure to pay up. Association executives face possible charges of authority abuse.

A Turkish police superintendent has filed a court case to annul a circular granting immunity from police detention to soldiers and armed forces members even if they are caught red handed while committing crimes out of uniform.

Lawyer and leading children rights activist Akco analyses Turkeys obligatory counsel crisis as bar associations nation-wide stop free legal aid in lack of government funding: The problem is the state policy which is based on the sacrifice of lawyers.

Human Rights Association says plainclothes officers provoked incidents during anti-Israel protest in Istanbul where police used excessive force. They beat the demonstrators. Police threw gas bombs anywhere there were people moving.

Turkeys Human Rights Foundation calls on Justice Ministry to allocate resources for free counseling in wake of TTB decision to halt services due to lack of funding. The right to access to counsel means prevention of torture. Its the governments duty t

Istanbul court acquits novelist-journalist Perihan Magden on charges of discouraging people from military service. Magden was indicted for 2005 magazine article Constientious Objection Is A Humans Right.

A number of union members and executives were injured in a police attack when they attempted to hold a press conference in protest of layoffs. Witnesses say injuries result of gas bombs. Turkeys Transport Workers Union has condemned attack.

Union of Bar Associations is halting all free counseling services for defendants charged under the Criminal Procedures Code on August 1, following Ministry failure to cover costs. Thousands of defendants who cant afford lawyers are at loss.

Prosecuted Turkish cartoonist Musa Kart and Mithat Kabaali, the judge who acquitted him on charges of insult, have received the TGC 2006 Press Freedom Awards. Kabaali says I did whatever was required for the supremacy of justice.

Initiative for Freedom Expression leads meeting in Gezi Park using mobile phones to call and SMS MPs asking for article 301 of and Anti-Terror Law to be abolished. Most deputies reject incoming calls while some promise to look into the matter.