There will be Bosnian, Kurdish, Zaza, Circassian and Arabic broadcasts on radio and TV once a week each. Kurds and Zazas think six oclock in the morning is too early for the radio programs. Bosnians say they did not demand to have Bosnian broadcasts.

The broadcast in local dialects and languages, which is regarded as an important step towards the European Union path of Turkey, was launched yesterday in Bosnian. The broadcast of state-run TRT Channel caused the reactions of Bosnians in Turkey.

The owner of the Munzur Haber and lawyer Aygun is standing trial for giving a speech about the students who petitioned to receive education in their mother tongues. He had been acquitted before in a similar trial.

The Human Rights Association is protesting the execution of Siyar Perincek, the son of IHD regional head Mehdi Perincek, who was killed by police in Adana with a bullet to his back.

Amnesty Report: What is honour? What is rape? Sexual violence in custody, rape as a form of torture, inhuman or degrading treatment, ethnic discrimination, virginity testing, womens access to justice, rape victim...

250 million Euros to be provided by the European Union (EU) as part of its 2004 fiscal year cooperation will be used for regional development projects.

What is violence against women? The scale of violence, discrimination and violence against women, marriage by force, without consent, erarly marriage, forced prostitution, Aaculture of violence, We will not be anyones honour ...

Amnesty report: The concept of honour has been degraded to such a degree that it is used as a justification for a wide spectrum of violent crimes against women. Women can be locked in their homes, ostracized and murdered for being victims of rape.

Delegates from PEN centers participated in Barcelona Forum 2004 signed petitions for freedom of expression and human rights in Iraq and Israel. The petition addressing US President Bush, US administrator in Iraq Bremer and Israel Prime minister Sharon.

Director General of WAN Timothy Balding talked about how the written press would be affected by the Internet and rapidly developing electronic media in the World Association of Newspapers and the World Editors Forum (WEF).

If Parliament approved the decision of the investigation commission, former Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz and state minister Gunes Taner will stand trials at the High Tribunal Court in connection with the embezzlement in the Turkbank bid.

ECHR said Turkey, by sentencing former DEP deputy Yurttas, had violated the principles of freedom of expression, and prolonged detention. ECHR said the sentence handed to him for charges of separatism was unnecessary in a democratic society.

BAK, Union Against NATO and Bush, Committees Against Invasion will protest the NATO summit in Istanbul in June. They will stage a demonstration in Istanbul on June 27. The anti-war activists will act together to make their voices heard.

Lawyer Keskin criticized the TCK at the Being a Women in the World of Violence panel organized by the Izmir Womens Platform. Legal amendments do not mean violence against women will come to an end, said Keskin.

Will Turkey with its great potentials have no problem at all in finding a new channel to flow through as claimed by Prime Minister Erdogan. There, unfortunately, exists no other regional integration alternative that is attractive for Turkey.

Istanbul suffered a series of devastating suicide truck bomb attacks targeting Synagogues and on HSBC Bank headquarters and British Consulate on November in which 61 people were killed and more than 700 people were injured.

Representatives of gay&lesbian groups urge for inclusion of their demands in the new draft criminal law moved by the government. Gays&lesbians raise their demands that sexual identity is not regarded as provocation in homosexual murders.

Anchor Gundogdu of Adana local station Radyo Dunya was detained and will stand trial for quoting a statement from imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan. She is charged with separatist broadcasts, and affiliation with illegal organization.

RSF has protested jailing of a journalist for insulting the memory of Ataturk - founder of the Turkish Republic. Former editorialist Albayrak of Milli Gazete was sentenced to 15 months in prison and was sent to Kalecik prison in Ankara,

Experts at the Association of Sexual Education, Treatment and Research (CETAD) national congress said partner rape remains as secret partly because it is not regarded as a crime. Evidence is destroyed especially in partner rape.