MAZLUMDER emphasized that the prison management made it very difficult for not only the lawyers, but also the lawmakers to see the victims. We are afraid that there are serious human rights violations in the prison, it stated.

Journalist Kara, who filmed local governer while he was swimming, faces up to 15 days in prison for disturbing him. He is also charged with swearing though a book he wrote and he also has 13 cases pending at the appeal Court.

According to a survey by the Ankara Chamber of Commerce, the gap between income groups in Turkey, has widened. While middle-class has turned to products sold in open containers, low-income groups prefer buying cheaper crumbled food.

Thirteen local Human Rights Assocaiton leaders pointed to the increasing number of human rights violations in eastern and southeastern Turkey. They called on the government and Ocalans KADEK organization to maintain peace in the country.

Abdullah Ocalan, imprisoned Kurdish guerrilla PKK/KADEK leader, urges the government exile himself and declare amnesty for the Kurdish fighters for arriving at a settlement for the Kurdish question.

Ms. Sevim Yetkiner, local Human Rights Association branch chair arrested under controversial circumstances. The activist is charged with supporting the guerrilla PKK for participating in a convicts funeral who died in prison.

The US side noted the Turkish concerns related to the kind of treatment its military personnel were subjected to during the unfortunate incident. The Turkish side noted the US expressions of concern about reported activities of Turkish personnel.

Singer Tunc is released. The other artists, singer Rojin and stand-up showman Batki, who performed in the same festival, are sentenced in absentia. The first hearing of the trial opened against the artists will be held in August.

121 Turkish intellectuals, of whom 12 of whom are women, including Yurdatapan, Kanar, Öndul, Kurkcu, Kocali, Kemal, Kaplan, Duran, Zarakolu called for peaceful discussion of Turkeys problems and legalization of political amnesty.

Last month a woman named Semse Allak was buried in a corner of a municipal cemetery here. She, unmarried and pregnant, had died from a stoning. When she died on June 7, noone from her family and relatives claimed her body and attended the funeral.

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Turkeys prominent intellectuals protest the arrest of folk singer Ferhat Tunc. The musician has fallen victim to baseless slanders, told artists, musicians and writers in a press conference.

Turkish media is focused on the broken national pride in the arrest of 11 Turkish Special Force troops in Qirquq. Yet real questions remain unanswered:What were these troops tasked with on foreign territories.

Human rights activist folk singer Ferhat Tunc is arrested under southeastern Dogubeyazit local court decision in the southwestern district of Milas prior to his performance.

Why were the Turkish forces there, asked engineer Mater about the detentions in northern Iraq. The US acted before the Turkish forces, which wish to carry on with deep state habits, said writer Firat. Historian Akad said The US does not want Turkey.

ODP vice chair Turkmen said: Turkish public remains uninformed of on the issue of what Turkish soldiers are doing in Suleymaniye. Turkmen stressed on the importance of political amnesty for solving the Kurdish problem.

RSF has called on RTUK to rescind the one-month suspension it imposed on 5 television stations. RTÜK accuses the television stations of carrying broadcasts defending the unfair interests of their owner, their shareholders and members of the family.

Reforms are good but we need to see the effects,said Kretschmer, the European Union Commissionsrepresentative to Turkey, who visited the waterpurification facility in Sanliurfa being built withfinancial support from the EU.

The local women were always by Semses side at the hospital. Women from especiall Ka-mer who supported Allak financially and psychologically during the eight months she spent in a coma at the hospital, are spending efforts to prevent honor killings.

RTUK ordered Radio Dunya off the air for a month for broadcasting a program in Kurdish. Ozic said the recent reforms in Turkey allowed Kurdish broadcasts.