At the third hearing of the Hrant Dink murder trial yesterday, suspected instigators Tuncel and Hayal were questioned. The Hrant Dink Sensitivity Group called for justice.

A project bringing together female journalists from nine Mediterranean countries wil result in 45 articles translated into seven languages.

On Sunday, Turks and Germans gathered to say good-bye to the nine victims of the fire in Ludwigshafen last week. The bodies were then flown to Turkey.

After attacking journalists Magden and Temelkuran who spoke out against the nationalist manipulation of children, the Tercüman newspaper is being taken to court.

The second vote on constitutional amendment on Saturday was passed with 411 votes. The opposition CHP is applying to the Constitutional Court.

The trial of the murder suspects of journalist Hrant Dink continues with the third hearing today. The hearing will be recorded and might yet be opened to the press, pending a court decision.

There is continuing reluctance to link the different trials in Trabzon, Samsun and Istanbul concerning the murder of journalist Hrant Dink. Senior police and gendarmerie officers are still not on trial.

The father of Baran Tursun, who was shot dead by a police officer in Izmir called on the media and others to attend the second hearing in the trial to ensure that those responsible were punished.

Although the AKP proposal to allow women wearing headscarves access to higher education has been couched in language about “freedoms” and “rights”, the government is actually not promoting women’s rights at all.

Amendments to Articles 10 and 42 of the constitution were passed in the first round of debates and votes yesterday. The second round of votes is on Saturday.

RSF joins the International Press Institute and the Cartoonists’ Rights Network International in their condemnation of the planned prosecution of two cartoonists.

The demonstrators who had set out from Diyarbakir to Sirnak in order to protest against cross-border operations spent the night at Cudi Mountain.

After an explosion in an illegal fireworks factory killed 23 workers and injured over a hundred people, trade unions and professional associations reminded the Minister of Employment of his duties.

The BIA² 2007 Media Monitoring Report reveals that there are still countless violations of press freedom across the country. There were also more attacks on journalists in 2007 than in the previous year, with the shocking murder of Hrant Dink still fresh in everyone's mind.

After a fire in a building in Germany killed nine Turks, five of them children, there have been suspicions that the building was set fire to deliberately.

With the support of the Council of Europe and the EU Commission, Turkey is launching a two-year anti-corruption programme.

An Istanbul court dropped the case against Hrant Dink’s lawyer Erdal Dogan for writing that nationalist lawyer Fuat Turgut should be tried for threatening Hrant Dink.

A march against cross-border operations in Northern Iraq, organised by the pro-Kurdish DTP, was sent off by some 20 thousand people in Diyarbakir. Convoy joining from Istanbul was held up after constant searches.

An Internet campaign of academics supporting the freedom to wear a headscarf at university has been signed by 2,252 university lecturers so far.

After questioning the expenditure of a district governor in the Devrek district of Zonguldak, journalist Ibrahim Tig faced a five-year trial. He was acquitted on 30 January.