The ECHR has sentenced Turkey to paying Sanar Yurdatapan 3,500 Euros compensation for violating freedom of expression.

Yasin Yetisgen, responsible managing editor of the local "Coban Atesi" in Gaziantep, faces 7.5 years in prison for an article containing references to Atatürk.

Gültan Kisanak a DTP deputy said: "We are not considering forming an investigative commission about the bombing. During our visit to the governor we could not get any information."

The Diyarbakir bombing of 3 January has claimed a sixth life, that of 17-year old Engin Taskaya.

After the bombing in Diyarbakir on Thursday, four of the people initially arrested have been released.

On Friday, around 150 women marched in Taksim in order to protest against the sexual harrassment of women on New Year’s Eve and the fact that the police released the suspected perpetrators.

After waiting three years to make changes to Article 301, the government is finally taking the article in hand one week before the first anniversary of Dink’s murder.

Taken hostage on 21 October 2007 by the PKK, released on 4 November and then arrested on their return to Turkey, the eight soldiers are facing heavy sentences.

O.S., the young man suspected of shooting Hrant Dink, was 19 years old biologically at the time of the crime, says a Forensic Medicine report, issued after the court decision to ewnd the controversy regarding the suspect's age.

Agirbas of the Parliamentarian Human Rights Investigating Commission says that nothing new has come out of the commission's investigations so far.

Around fifty NGOs from Diyarbakir, the scene to a deadly blast last week, expressed determination to stop violence. "Violence and savagery must never be used as methods to try to solve problems" they said.

If Turks could criticise Turks, and Kurds could criticise Kurds, this would be a good distribution of roles. An independent Kurdish media must be as critical as I am of the Turkish mainstream media.

The Roma of Sulukule have called on the public to protest against the destruction of their neighbourhood to mayors, the President Abdullah Gül and Prime Minster Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The explosion of a car in Diyarbakir Thursday evening causes the lives of 5, including school children. 67 people reported wounded, 3 of whom seriously.

According to General Staff data, 312 PKK militants, 114 soldiers and 10 village guards died in 2007.

The USA has finally made its choice for Turkey and against the Kurds. Whether the Kurds on the two sides like it or not, US-Turkey relations are being pulled in that direction.

Turkey is considering introducing a ban on smoking, an idea which is provoking very mixed reactions.

Acar of the Erbil Businesspeople's Association says: "Violence is affecting economic relations, this is to Turkey's detriment. There are people on both sides feeding from violence."

There have been some developments in children's rights in 2007, but more needs to be done. Turkey still does not have a comprehensive policy on children.

A primary school student, Deniz Türkeş, who is a contributor to the children's magazine Minus 18 (Eksi 18) joined bianet's year-end investigation and evaluated the year 2007 for us.