Unions, NGOs and political parties prepared a Peace Communiqué against a possible military strike on Iraq by the U.S: The U.S. intervention in the region would bring death, not democracy. We are raising our voices against war and poverty.

Dondu Kulaksiz, the widow of the retired police who committed suicide after shooting his daughter called on authorities to seize the weapons of retired police officers.

AKP:Is a melange of some leftist ideas packed in an Islamic cover, symbols of modernization used without style and the formerly held Islamist views masked against legal persecution.

Tas from ODP, The decision encourages torturers and rapists, Selek from DEHAP, Social establishments are male, Turenc from ANAP, The law should be scrutinized, Gogus from CHP, Women should be more active in politics and in life.

Lawyers Keskin and Karakas recounted what S.Y. and N.C. went through under detention in September: They now use methods that are hard to prove, but that leave deep scars in the memory

Many villagers told Human Rights Watch that the authorities would give them permission to return only if they signed statements absolving the government of responsibility for their original displacement.

The Belgian Union of Professional Journalists (AGJPB), on October 23, 2002, officially protested against the indictment of Dogan Özgüden, Info-Türk chief editor, by the Turkish justice.

After failing to be recommended for membership of the European Union, Turkey is clinging to faint hopes that the EU Council comprising heads of government will take a political decision to give Turkey at least a date for accession talks.

Turkish Energy Minister Zeki Cakan and his Iranian counterpart Bijan Namdar Zanganeh told reporters they were satisfied with the results of the agreement, but did not say whether they had reached any new deal on prices.

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: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.

When the sentence was announced, Zeybek, a former editor of a radical newspaper was in Sweden to receive the PEN Tucholsky Award, granted annually to writers who have been persecuted, threatened or are in exile.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.