Baskaya is being sued for his book Articles Against the Flow, on grounds of article 159/1 of the Turkish Penal Code.

Turkeys Kurds and particularly the Kurdish guerrillas, contrary to Ankaras nightmares have apparently distanced themselves from the emergent Kurdish administration in Northern Iraq instead of finding a there a role model for their future.

The traditional outdoor rally will take place in the Caglayan Square where trade union leaders will address participants from unions, left parties and youth and intellectuals. 50 thousand is expected to come together in İstanbul rally.

Broadcast Editor of Adanas local Radyo Dunya Ozic is tried for airing a program in Kurdish, titled Kurdish Language and Literature. The final decision depends on a related State Council case.

Human Rights Associations Diyarbakir branch revealed that 24 people died and 45 injured from landmine explosions and other leftover explosives between 2002-2003. Most of those who died were children.

Three forms of political terror,no one `responsible`, political terror, `part of life`, laws concerning the media in the North, two journalists jailed, death threats, cases against journalists, foreign journalists expelled, Psychological campaigns.

Developments have not been positive in the implementation of human rights and particularly of preventing torture, in the first quarter of 2003 Human Rights Association (IHD) report says: 183 people have been subject to torture and ill treatment.

Walter Schwimmer, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, has called the opening of the Green Line for citizens from both communities in Cyprus a step, of historic proportion, towards a settlement of the Cyprus issue.

Hasan Özgün, a reporter with the pro-Kurdish daily Özgür Gündem, was released on 21 April 2003 after more than nine years imprisonment. He now faces a further 12-year jail term forinsulting state institutions.

A Turkish court tried writer Bingolce and publisher Sokmen of the Womens Slang Dictionary, for writing and publishing an obscene book. Lawyer Arin presented the court with part of the 262,000-word slang dictionary and the Large Slang Dictionary.

How will the Turkish army prevent the establishment of a federal Kurdish state for which the word of US is sufficient? By attacking and destroying it just as it is being established? And if so, when and how will the Turkish army get out of such a mess?

Turkeys chief prosecutor rejected a demand by the six police officers sentenced for torturing teenagers in the Manisa Trial, to overturn the sentencing decisions. The prosecutor sent the file to Manisa to have the decision enforced.

Coordination Against War in Iraq urges keeping up the struggle against United States aggression. US is not a force that can not be stopped or defeated says Public Workers leader Evren and warns the government for futher tension in Northern Iraq.

We hope that you can stop a second Vietnam war before it is too late and many innocent people are killed. Please put yourselves in the position of your friends in Turkey, in the position of ordinary Iraqis who will suffer in this conflict.

Peace activists took to the streets in Istanbul, Ankara, Adana, Samsun, Sanliurfa, Van, Bartin, Nigde...Flying balloons in the air, sending letters to the United Nations, hanging a banner on historic Galata Tower.

Tekeköy inhabitants took to the streets to protest against the mobile power plant. Three were arrested. Recently started to operate on the Black Sea coast near Samsun province the plant engenders environmental hazards, say environmental activists.

Supporting Womens Leadership in Turkeys Local Development, project is launched in Diyarbakır. The project includes, production facilities, childcare centers and training in various fields.

Turkey is positioning itself alongside the aggressor with an eye to readjusting its economic policies with the US aid, reacts Sami Evren chair of Public Workers Confederation (KESK) to Powells visit. Turkey should not and will not join this mess.

Gregorian Patriarch Moutafian remarks that they do not consider United States attack on Iraq as just. Visiting Iskenderun for Easter preparations all Iraqis and Americans who die in the war are innocent, says Moutafian

Law specialists question Turkish governments decision to provide logisitical support to the US forces fighting in Iraq. Is Iraq our enemy, asks Prof Dr. Uskul asks. Turkey will provide humanitarian aid to US soldiers, but how about to Iraqis?