According to Prof. Sancar, the statement issued by the National Security Council shows that the army is not obstructing the government's initiative.

DTP MP Sebahat Tuncel for Istanbul has called for a discussion on how decisions are made regarding the city.

A witness statement at the trial against JİTEM commander Temizöz seems to shed light on the disappearance and death of two HADEP members. Family lawyers are skeptical.

The conviction of a police officer for "probable intentional killing" of a young man has been welcomed by the family and their lawyer.

The recordings of witness statements regarding the death by police torture of Engin Çeber have been found to be faulty, so that witnesses will have to be heard again. Lawyers suspect tampering.

The Turkish office of Amnesty International has signed a collective labour agreement which will offer its employees an increase in wages, gender equality and other social rights.

Official data show a drop in unemployment in the last two months. Trade union confederation DİSK say real unemployment stands at 5.4 million.

In a document which the foundation handed the Minister of the Interior it outlined its own vision of progess towards a solution of the Kurdish question.

The Saturday Mothers/People and the Peace Mothers collaborated in a call for peace and the merging of the JİTEM case with the Ergenekon trial.

Istanbul chartered accountants have accused the state of diverting money collected through "earthquake taxes" elsewhere.

Thanks to the efforts of the Revolutionary "78'ers" Federation, after 26 years the farewell letter of Erdoğan Yazgan was taken from the military archives and finally given to Yazgan's family. Yazgan had been executed on 29 January 1983 <fter the military coup in 1980.

The imprisoned PKK leader spoke to his lawyers on the prison island on 14 August, and the Fırat News Agency published parts of the conversation.

These days, Turkey is discussing a solution to the Kurdish question. Tens of thousands of young people have died in the last decades. Bawer Çakır visited a military graveyard in Istanbul, the Edirnekapı Şehitliği.

KESK members setting off from Istanbul were stopped by the police and exposed to tear gas and water cannons. Six members were injured.

The investigation on the death of convict Mikail Tekin in Belgium and the murder of business woman Arzu Erbaş Çakmakçı continues. Three Belgium prison guards and the father of a child from Çakmakçı's day nursery are currently on suspicion.

According to the second quarterly BİA Media Monitoring Report, 125 people, 57 of them journalists, have been on trial between April and June.

The meeting between Minister Atalay and the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party was described as positive by both sides.

According to Prof. Dr. Ersanlı, the opposition parties need to rethink their attitude, while the AKP needs to be pushed to more radical steps.

The International Hrant Dink Foundation prepared an open film project on the topic of conscience. Short films can be submitted till 30 November and will be assessed by a jury formed by Costa Gavras and Georges Moustaki.

Because the Turkish Ministry of the Interior did not permit his funeral in Diyarbakır, musician Tigran was buried in Brussels.