Holland based Press Now and the IPS Communication Foundation are working together to educate 25 reporter candidates from 15 different cities at the Local Gay-Lesbian Reporter Network Education in Eskişehir.

Minister of State Nimet Çubukçu says they will object to the report that led to the release of Üzmez, writer for daily Vakit, who was accused of sexually abusing a fourteen-year-old girl.

Halil Ç., slained youth’s friend, who was with him at the time of the shooting, says the same police officer threatened to shoot him, too. Alevite Culture Associations describe the incident as a murder.

Writer Cezmi Ersöz was acquitted of the charge of “alienating people from the military service” through his article that appeared in weekly Leman. A similar lawsuit was filed against three people protesting the bad treatment and torture against conscientious objector Mehmet Bal.

Ufuk Uras, deputy for the Freedom and Solidarity Party, says the process of solving the Kurdish Problem does not have to wait for laying down the weapons.

The Human Rights Association (İHD) protest the use of violence against children who take part in the activities protesting the bad treatment against Abdullah Öcalan, imprisoned leader of the PKK.

The court sentenced publisher Ali Rıza Vural of Doz Publishing to “doing propaganda work for the Kurdish Workers Party” by publishing Hasan Bildirici’s novel that used the words “Kurd” and “Kurdish People.”

The court finally makes it possible to look into Colonel Öz's neglect in Hrant Dink’s murder.

Adnan Oktar, the "Creationist" preacher upon whose claims of personal humiliation many internet sites have been closed by court decision, threatens Bianet too: “Articles by two academics dmages my personal dignity. Lift these orwe will have you banned like Richard Dawkin’s site.” There is no insult, so we are not removing the article!

In Antalya, a police officer shot a youth of eighteen years for not obeying the stop warning. Suspending the police officer, the Antalya Police Department has launched an investigation.

The Diyarbakır Court lifted the ban on blogger.com, one of the biggest blog services in the internet, four days later, until all the evidence is collected.

After transsexual singer Bülent Ersoy, writer Cezmi Ersöz is also sued for writing a story that allegedly alienates people from military service. Both Ersoy and Ersöz will appear before court on October 30.