Childrens rights group Gundem Cocuk says on explosion killing 6 children in Diyarbakir: Those conducting violence, nourishing it, those creating the conditions for it are all equally guilty. The crime is a crime even if the bomb had not killed children

The right to life of 11-year-old Kurdish girl in Batman might have been neglected while two suspects killed in the same incident could have been apprehended alive, concludes a fact-finding mission of human rights NGOs.

Those against peace will be uncovered, if they are not protected by the state says DTP leader Turk. Funerals held for those killed, protests recorded, local businesses pull down shutters. Governors office: The bomb killing 10 was planted in a thermos.

More than 200 Turkish and Kurdish intellectuals call on PKK for an unconditional end to all armed activities and appeal to state for legislation allowing everyone to participate in democratic social life.

SDP and SODEV back DTPs appeal for PKK unilateral ceasefire and call on public to press for peaceful solution. Kocali says Cease-fire alone will not end conflict, . Cingi: Government initiatives for peace should be supported.

A bomb attack in the poor Baglar district killed 10 and wounded at least 15 people, many of them children. As the investigation continues, IHD and Diyarbakır mayor Baydemir condemned the attack as a provocation against efforts of peace.

One of the leading Kurdish politician Ekinci says PKK must lay down arms with no conditions attached to it. Ekinci argues that for democracy forces to advance in Turkey and be effective, PKK has to end armed activities point blank.

The practice of fingerprinting employees during entries and exists at Diyarbakir Dicle University Faculty of Medicine HOSPITAL has come to an end after health sector union applies for annulment to province Human Rights Board.

Atilim newspaper Editor-in-Chief Ibrahim Cicek and Ozgur Radio Broadcast Coordinator Erdogan among 33 suspects detained by police on charges of being members of outlawed leftwing MLKP. Detentions condemned as lawyer claims police kidnapped another suspect

Pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) chairman Ahmet Turk issues cease-fire appeal and says he is hopeful PKK will accept: If the PKK declares a cease-fire it is a must to create the conditions to make it durable.

The case against four newsmen and five activists for their involvement in the PKKs release of kidnapped Turkish soldier Coskun Kirandi is to continue with Prosecutors opinion being read. If found guilty on charges each face 5 years jail.

Human Rights Foundation Chair Onen says 80 military coup still intact by renewing and sophisticating itself. The culture of conflict is trying to spread into the civilian environment. This is an operation to suppress peace.

Human Rights activists say it found no sign of a clash where 9-year-old Kurdish girl Mizgin was killed by gunfir. Her brother Hadi charges they were fired on by security forces without warning and corpses were shot again afterwards.

Movie actors and playwrites warn film and TV industry of possible walkouts if conditions of new Team Agreement are not met. Their union SINE-SEN proposes to end uninsured employment, improve working hours and protect women from harassment.

DISK chairman Celebi announces that a youth union is to follow the founding new pensioners union. A union of women is unlikely he says. Women are already in every field. Yet they are not active at the unions executive levels, due to family burdens.

Turkeys school-teachers uniaon Egitim-Sen to launch nation-wide campaign petitioning for equal, free and quality education for all levels and sections of education. Engineers Chamber, TMMOB and largest union confedartion Turk-Is to support campaign.

9-year-old Mizgin Ozbek and two others were sprayed with bullets in a car in southeast Batman while officials maintain child was caught in cross-fire. Human rights NGOs and local Bar Association set up fact-finding delegation.

Turkey criticized in the lastest Amnesty International report on The persistence of protracted and unfair trials for those charged under anti-terrorism legislation. AI issues seven-point appeal for improvements addressed at Ankara government.

Brushing off public reaction and warnings by opposition deputies, ruling AKP majority passes government motion to send Turkish soldiers to Lebanon. Simultaneous to the vote, over 10 thousand people poured out to the streets of capital Ankara in protest.

Turkish courts are geared up to hear 45 press and freedom of expression cases until the end of the year. First case starts with the Kirandi trial on September 8 while eight journalists, writers and publishers are to face judges on October 5.