Başak Ertür

Children, their mothers and women gathered in Istanbuls Taksim Square on Saturday, to voice their opposition to the war. Flew their balloons in the air and shouted the value of childrens lives cannot be measured with oil or dollars .

Thousands of people protested the U.S. -led attack on Iraq. U.S., take your hands off the Middle East, Make Peace not War, We wont kill, we wont die, we wont be anybodys soldier, shouted the crowd. Police broke up the protest by using tea gas.

Anti-war protesters warned Turkish leaders and called on the parliament and the government not to get Turkey involved in a crime against humanity.

Peace Initiative has taken legal action against the AKP government in two seperate suits. They demand the cancellation of the Memorandum of Understanding signed between the US and Turkish government, and compensation for the moral damage involved.