RSF:A group of 16 Spanish people, including the 10 journalists, were expelled to the Greek-Cypriot side of the island by police and foreign ministry press officials after conferring with NGOs, the media and other civil society groups in the north.

Amnesty International urged the authorities to take further steps to protect all people in Turkey from the crime of torture following the sentencing of ten police officers for the torture of the Manisachildren.

RSF: Turkey breaks commitments to European Union by charging journalists Ozguden, Karaca and Sert with insulting the army. More than 50 journalists were brought before the Turkish courts in 2001 in connection with what they had written.

SP deputy Bekaraoglu, during an anti - was demonstration, said: Some people are bargaining with the U.S. over the life of the Turkish soldiers. The weapon companies that got Bush elected, now want him to start a war, so that they can sell their weapons.

A Turkish court sentenced ten police officers to prison for a total of 1020 months for charges of torturing 16 teenagers. The time for the trial, which has been going on for seven years, will be up in June 2003.

Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the European Union Strategy Paper and Progress Report Regarding the Cyprus Issue: Turkey expects the EU Council not to make a historical mistake by relying on the relevant Commission reports.

A complaint by Turkeys former armed forces chief of staff, Gen. Hüseyin Kivrikoglu, that Reporters Without Borders (RSF) harmed his public image will be heard by a Paris court on 16 October.

The court refused to retry journalist Kizilyaprak. The judge decided that the EU-reforms did not alter Kizilyapraks conviction. The journalist is facing a prison sentence. The case is taken to the ECHR.

Scholor Aktar: The negativeness of the progress report is due to the weaknesses of the commission. It has come in very handy for the anti-EU circles. The general elections has already been affected in such a way to benefit the anti-EU parties.

The head of the Chamber of Architects, Gursel, believes that the findings excavated at the antique City of Zeugma should be preserved and exhibited. This would contribute to Gazianteps and the regions economy according to Gursel.

HRW: EU report on Turkeys progress toward membership due out Wednesday EU report on Turkeys progress toward membership due out Wednesday could signal whether the EU considers recent reforms enough for Turkey to start membership negotiations.

Afrika newspaper editor-in-chief Sener Levent and editor Memduh Ener released from prison; progress in case of journalist Lutlu Adali murdered in 1996.