Individuals and NGOs in Diyarbakir marched through the city on Thursday in a silent protest against the bombing: "We do not want violence," they said.

Academics, artists and rights activists join support for pro-Kurdish DTP MP Türk, whose parliamentary immunity is threatened. International support comes from reputed American intellectual Noam Chomsky and PEN.

The newly-founded Peace Parliament in Gaziantep has emphasised that "different languages, religions, confessions and cultures have lived together for centuries in this city."

The ECHR has awarded compensation to journalists who were punished under emergency law.

Lawyer Asma claims that the judiciary does not protect exploited children, but their families: "The family who forced their child to marry should have been tried under Article 233; the punishment was insufficient."

Nine local newspapers, none with a circulation of over 4,000, have been fined for "influencing the judiciary" in the Malatya murder case.

Gülcihan Simsek, the female district mayor from southeast Van province signs a collective agreement with the workers union: Male workers can be fired should they resort to domestic violence.

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.