Turkey deploys 102 health workers and physicians to the Iraqi border area. A mobile hospital is set up. Medical supplies from WHO against smallpox and against anthrax and nuclear-chemical-biological toxication are transferred to the area.

Seemingly, a clash with KDP and PUK forces will be inevitable should the Turkish army enters in Northern Iraq,. They will fight against this invasion say Kurds here. Yet most believe that friendly relations will follow as soon as Saddam regime falls.

Turkey needs to be taking precautionary steps today, to make sure its troops dont commit repeat violations in any operations it undertakes in northern Iraq, says Elizabeth Andersen of Human Rights Watchs Europe and Central Asia division.

Unions and NGOs declare March 27 an action day for peace. Iraqi children are dying, let us not send our children to school, say DİSK, KESK, TMMOB and TTB and call for one-day general strike.

Political scientist Gerger said Turkey was a partner of the US in its war crimes. Gerger said. Turkey has become an unpaid soldier instead of being a paid soldier. And now it is acting as if it said no to the US

European Human Rights Court has unanimously decided that the EHRC judges accepted PKK leader Ocalans application against his condemnation after an unfair trial. Constitutional Court ruled out permanent ban of pro-Kurdish party HADEP.

I am against the US, but I dont think a new motion will be rejected, said AKP lawmaker Caliskan. Lawmakers Ozcan, Akman and Erdogan would act towards national interests. Oztunc and Eri chose not to say anything before the motion is resubmitted.

Peace Initiative/Turkey calls Turkish deputies to keep their present stand for peace as Washington pressure for providing access to US land troops grows on the Turkish government.

37 anti-war activists including known acedemics, writers and journalists appealed to Turkish Parlimanet in order to stand firm on the motion not to allow the US troops deployment in Turkey.

25 academics from Turkey in their letters to the President, the Prime Minister and the Chairman of the Turkish Parliament, demanded that Turkey does not participate in this war, does not allow its land, air space, ports and airport to be used for attack.

Peace Initiative has taken legal action against the AKP government in two seperate suits. They demand the cancellation of the Memorandum of Understanding signed between the US and Turkish government, and compensation for the moral damage involved.

TUBAKKOM was established to push for gender equality in Turkish laws and to maintain swift implementation of laws. On with the contention, said the commissions founder president Nazan Moroglu.

AKPs program on women is much more advanced and radical than CHPs. Im only in doubt because I dont know if they will implement it. There is neither a competent women speaking nor strong and ostentatious women organizers.

We will take shelter in caves if there is a chemical attack, said Mardin mayor Tutasi. The U.S. troops have rented certain places, said Kiziltepe mayor Sincar. Some people have already become rich through the war.

Anti-war protesters warned Turkish leaders and called on the parliament and the government not to get Turkey involved in a crime against humanity.

Thousands of people protested the U.S. -led attack on Iraq. U.S., take your hands off the Middle East, Make Peace not War, We wont kill, we wont die, we wont be anybodys soldier, shouted the crowd. Police broke up the protest by using tea gas.

Turkey has brought its own troops into a state of preparedness, both to keep Iraqi refugees out and pre-empt a Kurdish dash for Kirkuk. It already has several thousand troops stationed at a small airfield in northern Iraq.

Turkali sings Hiroshima, a cry against the war in the silence of the candles. In Ankara, Izmir, Bodrum and Assos... New Zealand to New York, Montreal, Paris, Manila, Santiago and everwhere. At 19:00, they all demanded peace, those on Azores demanded war

Peace activists held a protest in Sabiha Gokcen Airport rented by the US as an airbase in the war on Iraq. The motion was rejected but the occupation goes on, shouted the protestors. The checks will go on every week, they said.

Greenpeace activists chained themselves to the truck they brought into the port of Iskenderun on the Mediterrenian, where the US military has been unloading soldiers and military equipment. They demanded that the US soldiers leave Turkey immediately.