All this uncertainty about timing could eclipse the political uncertainty that surrounded the latest crisis. Yet Turks and their neighbors need to worry about how this ongoing confusion will impair IMFs latest efforts to force economic reforms.

Preliminary observations made on 27 March 2002, by Ms Silvia Casale on behalf of the CPTs delegation.

However, the delegation found that practically all the prisoners held under the Law to Fight Terrorism were still refusing to take up the offer of communal activities.

The BIA Legal Units January-June 2002 report encompasses more than 50 incidents and 84 media instituations. 1 journalist imprisoned, 9 journalists are on trial, 3 convicted, 9 acquitted; 6 attacked. RTUK banned televisions and radios 2921 days.

Within days of its publication, Mr. Randals book was banned in Turkey and Mr. Keskin was charged with spreading separatist propaganda by the State Security Court in Istanbul.

New Formmation sparks fresh expectations among the Turkish business community, liberal intellectuals and trade union leaders who believe that the only way out of Turkeys present woes is accession to European Union membership.

Turkey is both a receiving and a transit country. Two factors shape current mobility.The recent political turmoil, civil wars, and clashes in the Middle East, Balkan and Caucasus regions have pushed migrants into the country with the hope of ...

An election could produce an unexpected result. The hope of the business and financial elite, along with many members of the urban middle class, is that Cem, Dervis and Ozkan, will form a dream team party to unite the center.

Syrian Journalist Husnu Mahalli: The USA states that it will attack Iraq. But the only country in the region, which has nuclear weapons, is Israel. Such an operation would lead to ethnic and sectarian clashes in the region.

Prof. Uskul: I dont think that the political parties, could risk an election. The new political group formed by the ministers and party legislators who have left the DSP, can come up with an election government with ANAP, DYP and AKP support.

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According to the Ministry of National Education, 152 thousand and 703 girls in Turkey, who should be receiving compulsory primary education, were kept out of formal education this year.

According to a study by Selcuk University, the smoking age is going down. The main reason for starting to smoke is the described as the influence of friends. 16 percent of the young people responding to the survey started smoking as a result of a fad.

RSF: Unpunished killers of journalists;21 countries accused and 9 others under surveillance. Turkey, Georgia, Indonesia, Mexico, Mozambique, Nigeria , Philippines, Serbia-Montenegro, and Sri Lanka are under surveillance.

CTP sees the election result as a sign of the peoples wish to enter the EU, journalist Levent claims, Turkey will incur a clash. The former minister Erbilen says: the results will not create much of a change, but has to be more far-sighted.

The minimum wage announced as 184 million 251 thousand Turkish Liras ($110). Protesting the new minumum wage, DISK chair Celebi said: Let alone the Constitution, this amount does not even accord with the least humanitarian values.

The BSCE brings together former Soviet republics of Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Moldova and Turkey, Russian Federation, Rumania, Bulgaria, Greece and Albania who undersigned the cooperation in the inaugural Istanbul summit in 1992.

Deriks mayor Ayse Karadag has to go through the difficulties of being a woman mayor in a region where feudal relations have weight. She got votes from the police too. And, Deriks roads are asphalted in her tine after 65 years.

Publisher Öztoprak was acquitted of charges of promoting separatism by publishing Mehmed Uzun book,Generating a Language. Publisher Abdullah Keskin faces imminent imprisonment.

Writer, publisher and political activist Pekdemir seeks asylum following three-year and nine-month prison sentence.Turkish Penal Code, for supporting an illegal organisation, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), in his book (Is the State a Revenger?.