International Federation of Journalists protests refusal for accreditation of Kurdish media to the EU Seville summit.

Journalist Horuz sentenced to 15 years imprisonment. Daily Cumhuriyet managing editor Yildiz was detained, for no apparent reason, at an Ankara hotel during the night of 14 to 15 June. He was held for questioning an for 12 hours, then released.

Karabulut, the chair of the Turk-Is Office for the Working Children: The problem of child labor in Turkey can only be solved through an equitable income distribution.

The kiwi adaptation studies in the eastern Black Sea region, have finally paid off. the total yield of kiwis has reached 200 tons annually. The producers will be provided with 20 thousand kiwi saplings this year.

The Human Rights Association criticized a report, dated 24 April 2002, on the F-type prisons, by the European Committee for Preventing Torture: Considering the basic international and universal standards, the committee is quite backwards.

The European Human Rights Court held unanimously there had been a violation of Article 3 to Protocol No. 1 (right to free elections) of the European Convention on Human Rights. the Court awarded the applicants 50,000 euros (EUR) each for damage.

The EU summit was successful in pushing forward the solution of the problems regarding Turkeys EU membership. However, the actions of the parliament will have to be closely watched from now on. Turkeys government problem is persisting.

Turkish journalist, Asiye Zeybek Güzel, who has been in jail since 1997, has been released following a decision by the National Security Court. However the charges against her have not been dropped.

Turkey was defeated. But winning the game would not have been a better outcome for the nation and for fottball. Brazil is a better team. It is even better that the pop nationalism blown up by the multinational firms and the media is puffed out.

23 events including three orchestral concerts, six chamber orchestra concerts, two of which are with a chorus, five recitals, two traditional music concerts and one choral concert. Repin, Te Kanawa, Berglund , Vogt, Biret, Kan, Kremer...

"They raped me under custody." Asiye Zeybek Güzel could only pronounce this truth when she could appear before the court 8 months of after her arrest. She had been unable to voice this bitter experience neither to her husband nor to her relatives, friends and lawyers.

Guzel, former editor of radical newspaper released following a five years and four months imprisonment. She was in Gebze (Istanbul) Prison.

CPJ: 389 journalists killed between 1992 and 2001. Turkey, where 18 journalists have been killed during the last decade, rounds out the top five most lethal countries for the press.

Turkey and Israel share this concern about the expansion of Iranian influence in the Caucasus and Central Asia. Indeed, Ankaras good relations with Jerusalem are well noticed in Baku and contribute to improve Israels status in this country.

RSF calls attention to human rights situation in five football World Cup qualifying countries: Saudi Arabia, China, Russia, Tunisia and Turkey.RED CARD

Womens Handcraft Associations Center is aiming at generating solutions for beating and violence against women in general. The association is also working on organizing seminars on womens rights. Women shelter will be the next step.

Torture and ill-treatment, high security prisons, rape in custody, impunity, two HADEP politicians disappeared, increased pressure on human rights defenders, prisoners of conscience, death penalty, political killings.

Proposals of the Patriotic Unity Movement for a comprehensive solution of the Cyprus problem:Effective participation of the two communities, special ties with Greece and Turkey, constitutional aspects of the federation, legislature, Judiciary...

According to a Jerusalem Post report on May 15 quoted by ANICA Turkish Intelligence is worried that Iran is to start building long-range missiles.

With the aim of Creating a football festival, Yapi Kredi Culture and Arts Center has organized a series of activities such as football prints by Dino and documentaries under the name, The Ball is a World.