Government officials, soldiers, Turkish settlers carrying three-crescent flags, a concert by Levet, a day-off for civil servants, call from the governing parties, loudspeakers of civil defense, and imprisoning children chanting peace slogans at school..

President Sezers recent statement that the headscarf has no place in the kamusal alan didnt make it entirely clear: Does he mean public/official institutions solely an interactive, transactional process or both?

The environmentalists demand that the Spanish-flagged cargo ship loaded with poisonous waste: The EU will demand that we build eradication facilities, not that we accept their waste.

Turkeys secularist elite is convinced that presence of veiled women in the public sphere symbolizes the Islamist urge for reshaping the secular government on the guidelines of Islamic canon.

What are the steps taken by Turkey, in terms of freedom of expression, since its adoption as a candidate member to the European Union- that is a usual question we hear from almost all international reporters who visit Turkey.

The state is not fighting against torture, said lawyer Ozturk. As evidence of the ongoing torture, he presented the application by children to the IHD. The children claimed they were tortured after the police killed one of their friends mistakenly.

More than 10,000 demonstrators, including workers, unemployed, homosexuals, anarchists, Islamists, and communists, gathered in Istanbul and said, No to War in Iraq... The leftist parties were in majority while right-wing parties were not present...

The editor-in-chief Erol Ozkoray and writer Nur Dolay of the Idea Politic magazine will make their depositions in writing from France. The case was brought against the journalists based on the General Staffs demand.

Joint Statement:The submission of the plan for the solution of the Cyprus Problem by the UN Secretary-General brings Cyprus to a most critical phase in its history. As members of the academic , conscious of the need for open dialogue.

Senlikoglu criticized the fact that the headscarf is only allowed in places other than public places. According to her, this is an artificial agenda., the ones who started the debate over headscarves are trying to cast a shade on AKPs success.

23 percent of women in Turkey give birth before the age of 20. Each year, 1,200 women die during pregnancy, labor or after childbirth. 42 percent of women in Diyarbakir are uneducated. 32 percent of girls arent registered in schools, TAP Foundation says.

Armenian and Turkish language newspaper AGOS editor in chief Dink believes that the minorities should be excluded by the regulation that authorizes and says that the regulation is antidemocratic. Armenians are preparing to establish a radio station...