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.

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.

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.

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?.

Armenian, Azerbaijani and Turkish journalists held a meeting in Ankara.

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

Five Turkish members of the bi-communal peace choir from Cyprus prosecuted by the Northern Cyprus authorities for performing in Turkey with their Greek colleagues. Teachers Union calls for international urgent action.

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 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 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 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.

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...

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.

"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.