Turkeys Revolutionary Workers Unions Confederation is launching a nation-wide Stop Israel! campaign with press conferences to be held in all regions and statements against Israeli attacks to be read at all work places.

Prosecuted Turkish cartoonist Musa Kart and Mithat Kabaali, the judge who acquitted him on charges of insult, have received the TGC 2006 Press Freedom Awards. Kabaali says I did whatever was required for the supremacy of justice.

Turkeys Journalists Association chair Ipekci speaks out on national media saying it has fallen under the yoke of censorship and auto-censorship - stemming from pressure, blackmail and threats - as country marks 98th anniversary of lifting censorship.

A leading association on children rights has warned that the governments failure to pay for free counseling services prompting an end to the practice next month, will victimize minors threatened by torture and mistreatment and affect all defendants.

Union of Bar Associations is halting all free counseling services for defendants charged under the Criminal Procedures Code on August 1, following Ministry failure to cover costs. Thousands of defendants who cant afford lawyers are at loss.

Initiative for Freedom Expression leads meeting in Gezi Park using mobile phones to call and SMS MPs asking for article 301 of and Anti-Terror Law to be abolished. Most deputies reject incoming calls while some promise to look into the matter.

Some 500 people sign a public petition giving themselves to the prosecutors as accomplices in the crime committed by Armenian-Turkish bilingual weekly editor Hrant Dink, who was recently found guilty of insulting Turkishness.

Held in prison for 40 days after trying to file complaint against police harassment, LIMTER-IS Chairman Dinc and Training Expert Saygili have been released to face trial as free citizens. Dinc denies charges and complais from being subject to violence.

Local Prosecutor demands 3.5 years for daily Birgun newspaper Sunday supplement editor Gokhan Gencay for discouraging the public from military service. Charge relates to an interviwev published in the paper with a conscientious objector.

Rights NGOs, trade unions and opposition parties call for nation-wide campaign against Article 301 on July 24. Campaign is particularly directed at MPs who will be called to move for lifting the article from Penal Code.

Public Prosecutors Office launches new investigation into Armenian Turkish bilingual Agos newspaper Editor-in-Chief Dink for remarks in a Reuters interview. Dink suspected of insulting the Turkish identity for referring to genocide.

Economist Sonmez: Public investments in the East produce results benefiting the west or sustaining a State of Emergency. Economic and political positive discrimination is needed. GUNSIAD Chair Bedirhanoglu: Atmosphere of conflict should end.

Reaction against Israels attacks grows with NGOs condemning aggression. Rallies for solidarity with Palestine are organized. Israel called on to immediately end attacks; withdraw to 1967 borders, release captive ministers.

Government discusses reinstating State of Emergency in Southeast as violence escalates. IHD Deputy Chair Yalcindag: We practically live OHAL. Concrete steps should be taken on the Kurdish problem.

Major troop deployment reported along Iraqi border after government tells military to plan and prepare for an incursion. PM rebuffs US Ambassadors warning against unilateral action, says government will decide on what to do.

The British government this week formally outlawed the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons TAK and added three other organizations to its list of terrorist groups under a new legislation which makes glorification of terrorism illegal.

The Ankara Bar Association has announced it will stop assigning free lawyers to suspects and victims involved in Criminal Procedural Code prosecutions after states failure to cover expenses.

Derya, fiercely articulate and newly invigorated after counseling, said she was determined to get on with her life. This region is religious and it is impossible to be yourself if you are a woman, she said. You can either escape or kill yourself.

Journalist Eser to be tried at Criminal Court of First Instance for news reports on a driver who committed suicide. He face up to 2 years jail each if found guilty of insulting the memorable image of a deceased person .

Initiative For Freedom of Expression expand civil disobedience action through public declaration denouncing themselves as co-offenders of journalist Dink after appeals court upholds a suspended 6 month sentence criminalizing his article in Agos weekly