Lawyer Alatas applied to the Supreme Court of Appeals and demanded that former DEP lawmakers are released. The Supreme Court of Appeals released the lawmakers on Wednesday. It will decide on a retrial on July 8.

The day Kurdish broadcast was launched, the High Appeals Court ruled to release the four former DEP Deputies Zana, Dicle, Sadak and Dogan. In this way, the two excuses which the European Union asserted, were eliminated.

Journalist Baskaya and publicist Erdogan face up to three years in prison for a book called, Articles Against the Flow.

Turkey as a democratic partner, Italy on behalf of G-8 and Yemen on behalf of regional countries became co-president of the mechanism. Details will become clear in the course of transition period.

Mass arrests of pro-Kurdish journalists ahead of NATO summitRSF has described as shocking an 8 June 2004 operation by anti-terrorist police that took 25 people into custody in raids on two pro-Kurdish publications and a news agency in Istanbul.

Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the International Federation for Human Rights, IHD, TIHV and Mazlum Der urged the Turkish authorities to take urgent practical measures to ensure the full protection of human rights.

European Parliament President Pat Cox welcomed on Wednesday Turkish Court of Appeals decision to release four former DEP deputies Zana, Dicle, Dogan and Sadak.

The four former Democracy Party deputies Leyla Zana, Hatip Dicle, Selim Sadak and Orhan Dogan who were sentenced to a 15-year prison after the retrial were released after orders by High Appeals Court.

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 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.

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 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.

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...

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 ...

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.

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.