The constitutional amendments toward annulling DGMs do not give hope to jurists. CHD head Sensoy said, everything will stay the same as long as laws stay the same. According to Baskan from the Istanbul Bar, republic is under threat.

Kaya, member of the City Councils Womens Assembly, said over 30 women applied to the consultation center in 10 days before it was opened officially yet. She underlined the high number of honor crimes in the city and said a womens shelter was necessary.

The Governorship has demanded that the Human Rights Agenda Association is closed down. The associations head, lawyer Orhan K. Cengiz, wrote a letter to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and asked him to take action.

Ka-Mer helped 23 women under the danger of being murdered in honor crimes in one year. Two of these women died. Others are either in shelters or have moved to other places. Honor crimes have always existed. They are just more visible now, said Kardas.

Journalist Yildiz who has been standing trial for the last three years for writing about a book called, Mehmeds Book, by Nadire Mater, was acquitted at the third trial. The journalist was being charged with insulting the armed forces of the state.

We have not been able to create a consciousness of a common homeland, said Uludag. According to Azgin, Turkish Cypriots joins EU on May 1 Ince wants the EU to work for a second referenda, and Korel wants Turkish troops to be withdrawn from Cyprus.

Assistant Prof. Altinay, in her presentation titled: Who is a good Turk? The Ideal Student According to Textbooks, said students were presented with a nationalist Turkish-Muslim identity and this teaching created a fear of difference among students.

referenda on the Annan Pla n played out pretty much as expected in Cyprus. 65 percent of voters in TRNC said Yes to reunification, while 76 percent of Greek Cypriots voters said No.

Zana and former DEP Deputies lawyer Alatas, said the court decision would hurt Turkeys EU bid. Alatas said the retrial was not fair and added former DEP deputies should have been released as the retrial began.

An appeals court upheld the 15-month prison sentence handed to Albayrak of daily Milli Gazete, in line with the law to protect Ataturk. The court wanted the same prison sentence, handed to editor-in-chief Terzi, to be commuted to a fine.

EU Commission is gathering today and will submit to the EU foreign ministers, a package of legitimate relations with Northern Cyprus.

497 people have applied to the Izmir Bar Torture Prevention Group in the last 2 years saying they were tortured. According to a report, 67 of them were women, and 121 of them were under 18. 383 police are being charged with torture in 97 trials.

As in the Madonna song, if Turkish Cypriots could `melt the heart` of Greek Cypriots for a YES so that they would not be `apart`... But there is no time left for that...

The International Publishers Association (IPA) and International PEN organized two round tables on the occasion of the 60th Session on the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland.

International PEN, alongside the International Publishers Association, is monitoring the trials against more than 40 such books and publications that have been brought to the courts during the past year.

RTUK ordered a program on CNN Turk off the air for once, for violating advertising rules. ATV was handed a penalty for hurting the development of the youth with the program A to Z with Esra Ceyhan. RTUK handed TGRT and Show TV three warnings each.

TRNC President Rauf Denktas said May God Cherish Russia after Russia vetoed the draft resolution about Cyprus, at the UN Security Council.

A court convicted Zana and three former Kurdish deputies of having links to rebels in their retrial, ordering them to serve the remainder of their 15-year prison sentences.They have already served 10 years in prison, would be eligible for release in 2005.

EP ad hoc delegation chair Lagendijk: We are convinced that the State Security Court cannot guarantee the impartiality of the legal proceedings against Leyla Zana and her colleagues and therefore approve the Governments plan to abolish this body.

Although Amnesty International believes that the former deputies Zana, Dicle, Dogan and Sadak should have been released unconditionally, the retrial offered the opportunity to end the injustice of their continued imprisonment.