Selek from Peace Promoters, Salman from Womens Platform for Selek of Peace Promoters, Salman of Womens Platform for Peace, Ciftci of HADEP, Keskin of IHD, Temurturkan of ODP, and Seyman of SHP are against Turkeys purchase of four AWACS.

IFJ is calling for the immediate and unconditional release of Sener Levent and Memduh Ener and for an end to the on-going legal actions against the newspaper which, says the federation, amount to a continuation of a long-running campaign of harassment.

The 23-year-old Ayhan won in 3min 58.79sec, denying Szabo by just two hundredths of a second. A long way back, in a lifetime best of 4:01.28, was the Russian Tatyana Tomashova.

86 Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus NGOs representing a wide spectrum of the Turkish Cypriots on July 9 urged for an immediate political solution to the long standing Cyprus question.

Incirlik American Air Bases Turkish workers are on strike with demands of a pay rise. This is the fifth labor strike at the base. Workers ask for pay rises once in three months, employers insist on granting pay rises only once in six months.

Its thought that the EU-reforms are positive yet inadequate. According to the local media organizations, it depends on implementation. Kara from Datca, Bingol from Diyarbakir, Toprak from Mersin and Kucuk from Edremit discuss the new journalism.

Sener Levent, the director of the Afrika published in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, and writer Ener were arrested and sent to prison because of an article. The article, which was published in the Avrupa newspaper in 1999, reads as follows.

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Sener Levent, the director of the Afrika newspaper published in TRNC, and writer Memduh Ener, were arrested and sent to prison because of an article called Who is the Biggest Traitor? Cypriot journalists union criticized the arrests.

RSF today voiced its outrage at the Six-month jail sentences imposed on two journalists of the Nicosia daily newspaper Afrika, Sener Levent and Memduh Ener, for insulting the President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Rauf Denktash.

Package abolishes death penalty, brings freedom of education and broadcast in non-Turkish languages, freedom of criticism of the state organs, easing restrictions against foreign NGOs working in Turkey, greater freedom for non-Muslim minority foundations.

Ayse Nur Zarakolu was a publisher. She got several awards and faced with trials and sentences. She passed away in January 2002. She was also publisher of Omer Asans book Pontos Kulturu (The Culture of Pontos). The books banned. Here is the story...

Lawyer Ilkiz, journalist Boncuk and activist Yurdatapan comments on Turkeys move to abolish death penalty, allow Kurdish education and broadcasts, and grant broader freedom of expression.

The soldier searched a house in the village of Catma with authorization for the first time in 22 years. The food quota seems to be lifted. Following 22-year-old emergency rule era, the people are trying to get used to a regular life.

Human Rights Watch: Turkeys Bold Reforms Fail Imprisoned Legislators. Death Penalty, Language Restrictions Abolished; Kurdish Parliamentarians Still Jailed

With the nationalists likely to make these new laws the central issue in early parliamentary elections scheduled for November 3, there will seemingly be little public pressure on Ankara not to follow Washingtons lead on intervention in Iraq.

712 people including 15 women, have been executed during the last 80 years. At the moment, 1500 people trials are continuing, face death penalty. 125 people have been sentenced to death penalty which was abolished in August 3.

Six-year-old Siyar, who was hit on the head with a mortar shell, was discharged from the hospital. His two sisters were killed in the same incident. Grandfather will open a lawsuit against Yuksekova Battalion Commandership.

Ferit Demir, the only journalist in the region, has been working under emergency rule for the last 12 years. He has been detained three times, received threats and got kidnapped by the PKK during the period. Emergency rule was lifted in Tunceli last week.

Amnesty International welcomes Turkeys abolishing of the death penalty in peacetime.