Turkey is going to the ballot on 12 September to vote on the Constitutional Reform Package. Electoral constituencies in eastern provinces close at 4.00 pm, and at 5.00 am in the rest of the country. More than 60 percent of the electorate is younger than 44 years and 40 percent live in 8 metropolises.

Akkaya from the Demanding Justice for Children Group announced that 18-year old H.Y., imprisoned under the Anti-Terror Law, was finally released from prison after 3 suicide attempt within 4 years. 56 children are still in prison, 21 in south-eastern Turkey and 35 in Istanbul.

The compensation claim filed against Nurgün Balcıoğlu from the Gaziantep Sabah newspaper was rejected. She was tried for criticizing retired judge Dilsizoğlu who had said, "Of every 10,000 murder trials, 9,000 are due to women."

An unknown person voiced a death threat via the phone against Taraf newspaper writer and politician Orhan Miroğlu. In his column the writer commented that he had no intention to take a step back because of the threat.

Yılmaz from KA-MER explains the incident in Malatya, where a young woman was kidnapped from the women's shelter by her family: "This was not a first. Insufficiency related to funding and staff create problems in terms of security and shelter conditions".

Without a related court decision, the Telecommunication Communication Presidency banned access to the Playboy website because of a technical inspection. The ban comes right before the religious holidays. YouTube.com is banned in Turkey since 5 May 2008.

A delegation from the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Congress and the Peace and Democracy Party met Kurdistan Patriots Association leader Talabani to talk about cooperation in solving the Kurdish question with all Kurdish parties involved.

The former president of the Contemporary Lawyers Association in Adana, Rişvanoğlu, is on trial for reading out a press release related to the suspicious death of Metin Alataş, distributor of the Kurdish Azadiya Welat Newspaper. The trial starts on 16 September.

With the support of environmentalist Perdikis from Cyprus, last Saturday's meeting of the relatives of the disappeared focussed on the whereabouts of disappeared Acar. Hanım Tosun once more asked for the fate of her husband Fehmi before the concert of U2 who mentioned Fehmi Tosun in their album "Pop" in 1997.

Mustafa Özbek, defendant of the Second Ergenekon Case, was removed from the courtroom in the 78th hearing after he said, "What right do you have to keep me here? Fear Allah!" Journalist Balbay criticized, "This is advanced punishment, you are dispensing the law in instalments".

"Arrested for organized crime" was Thursday's headline of the Güney Marmara'da Yaşam newspaper, whose editorial manager Cihan Hayırsevener was killed in December 2009. The trial opened by the Istanbul 10th High Criminal Court will start on 15 October .

Foreign Minister Davutoğlu recently spoke about efforts for legal amendments regarding freedom of expression cases at the ECHR. The Turkish Human Rights Foundation sent an according petition to the PM 3.5 years ago. The Anti-Terror Act, the Press Law and other regulations have to change.