Visitors of the prisoners at the Tekirdag F-type prison were beaten up by soldiers with nightsticks. The Human Rights Associations Istanbul branch is pursuing legal action against the incident.

The Vakit newspaper will have to pay a total of USD 40,500 in damages to 312 generals for an article titled, The country where those who do not have the capacity to become corporals have become generals.

Mazidagi districts mayor from SHP, Aysen Atli, is Turkeys youngest woman mayor. Twenty-six year old Atli is planning social activities for the youth in the 11,000-people district. A library is also on the way.

Egitim-Sen Diyarbakir head Babaoglu met with teachers who made the students perform barefoot at the May 19 ceremonies: Teachers, who organize the ceremony with a military mentality, and who fear being sent to other schools, dont think students health.

Prime minister Gul maintained that there was no possibility that the Greek-Cypriots could derail a possible positive conclusion related to Turkey at the EU Summit.

Guler Sabanci who was named the President of the Sabanci Holdings Executive Committee after the death of Sakip Sabanci became one of the most powerful women in Turkey.

DEHAP head Tuncer Bakirhan testified for saying goodbye and thank you in Kurdish after a speech at an election rally. It is not yet clear if he will stand trial.

523 people went missing in Turkey under detention. The Saturday Mothers, who had their weekly vigil in front of the Galatasaray High School for four years want to know what happened to the missing and demand that those responsible are tried.

Teacher Eriman of an elementary school was sent to a village school after he asked his students to learn a Kurdish poem for the reading day:I am just upset that I was assigned to another school before being able to give report cards to my students.

IHD deputy head Keskins request to change her name to Xezal, and Bicicis request to change her name to Xece. were rejected. The letter X could lead to administrative problems, said the court. Use the letter H but pronounce it differently.

Prof. Dr. Azrak said, If the specialty courts to be set up to replace DGMs have the same trial system as DGMs, the Constitutional amendment will have no meaning.

Gun TV broadcasted a Kurdish film with Turkish subtitles for the first time. TVs chair Dogan said they broadcasted the program as an individual broadcast, and said RTUK has still not responded to their request to broadcast a Kurdish cultural program.

Religious high schools should accept students according to the need for imams and preachers, said Dr. Kozanoglu. YOK should be abolished and university systems should be planned by a higher board comprising of university components.

Amendments to article 90 placed international human rights law above internal law, said Professor Uskul. This is important in making the legal system more effective in guaranteeing human rights.

The second International Symposium of Religions and Peace in the Light of the Common Ancestor (Abraham) (Harran Meetings), organized by Intercultural Dialogue Platform of Journalists and Authors Foundation (JAF), begins in Mardin today.

Leading European dailies said that there was a dangerous quarrel between the Turkish government and the army, Turkey underwent its deepest crisis since the permit to send troops to Iraq, and the secularism principle of Turkey was damaged.

The BIA initiative set out in 1997 with the goal of providing the public with freedom of expression and information and opened a Web page four years ago. Over time it has become an alternative news pool and the representative of independent journalism.

IHD Van Branchs head Lawyer Zeki Yuksel said there were a total of 35 rights violations in April, including those that appeared in the media. Yuksel also demanded that the Bostanici Paramilitary Police Station is moved out of the residential area.

Children, who work and live on streets go to school on the one hand and sell tissues, gather garbage or dye shoes on the other. The families of most of them have no income. Migration, poverty and unequal distribution of income push children on streets.

Kalan Muzik sent the video clip of Kurdish Mirkut song to national TVs. When none broadcasted the clip, it placed announcements on 8 newspapers. People, whose mother tongue is Kurdish, do not have access to their own cultural elements, said Okcu.