The Turkey PEN Women Writers Committee announced their opposition to war and all initiatives in support of war. We are protesting NATOs initiatives which are supposedly in the name of peace, the committee said.

Turkey, who assumed responsibility within the framework of the decision made by NATO, will train the Iraqi police. The training is expected to be carried out, both inside and outside Iraq.

Police fired chemical gas on the group, which had gathered in protest of the NATO summit. We wont remain silent as decisions are made concerning our future, said SDP head Kocali. The governors decision was just a show, added Turek of EMEP.

De Hoop Scheffer and Afghan President Hamid Karzai held a joint news conference on the second day of NATO Summit. Scheffer said NATO, UN, EU and all the donor countries should act in coordination during the election process.

A group of Greenpeace members hung a banner writing Nukes out of NATO on the Bogazici Bridge, chained themselves on iron bars of the bridge and made a press statement to protest NATO.

According to journalists, TRT reporter Demirs temporary appointment to Erzurum amounts to an exile. We will show our reaction as TGC, said Calislar. Newspapers and journalists should not remain indifferent, said Toluay and Guven.

Noting that anybody had not yet claimed the responsibility for the explosion, Aksu said that marginal, small scale terrorist organizations staged such acts to make their existence felt and spread terror.

Global BAK participants mailed postcards to members of the parliament. The postcards had photographs of torture in Iraq. Dont let Bush into the parliament, said the protesters.

A bomb exploded on public bus in the Capa district of Istanbul, killing three and injuring 21. The blast reportedly occurred at 3:15 p.m. local time.

Shelters for hundreds of women, and rehabilitation centers for children could have been set up with the money spent for the NATO summit, say womens rights activists. Some USD 17 million was spent for environmental arrangements ahead of Istanbul summit.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe AKPM is expacted to terminate the monitoring process which it imposed on Turkey for 8 years. This decision has a vital meaning to commence membership negotiations with the EU.

PM Erdogan addressed those who opposed to the NATO Summit saying, The mentality of Go home should be overcome. He said that the NATO Summit is an opportunity to promote Turkey.

F-16s will patrol the skies, and ground any object that violates the air space prohibition. Beginning to west of Bakirkoy, it will extend east of Umraniye. Two early warning AWACS will be in Istanbul to report any aircraft in violation of the airspaces.

Aygun, head of the Tunceli Bar, is standing trial for getting people chant slogans during Newroz celebrations. He says he did not get people chant slogans but just gave a speech.

Representatives of the EC and Council of Europe met with members of Turkish Parliamentary Justice Commission to discuss the draft Turkish Penal Code and Kretschmer hopes Turkey will review lows on freedom of expresion.

Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said that he met former Democracy Party (DEP) deputies in his capacity of Deputy P.M, upon the evaluation of the governmental units that, the meeting would be useful.

A table designed especially for the NATO Summit and the main meeting room is composed of 29 parts. The 13.5 meter wide table is one of the main parts of the project as 26 Presidents will meet around it.

Balik from DIHA, and Gullu from Ozgur Halk magazine were arrested after being detained for four days. They are expected to be transferred to the maximum-security Tekirdag F-type prison. Lawyer Dogan will object to their arrest.

The IHD is making public the unexplained points in Siyar Perinceks death, and the torture that those detained went through.

At the rally in Diyarbakir, which the former Democracy Party (DEP) deputies Leyla Zana, Hatip dicle, Selim Sadak and Orhan Dogan joined yesterday after their release, slogans for Apo (Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of PKK) were chanted.