The "Six Dots" Association for the Blind is calling on municipalities to finally start providing services for the blind, and disabled people in general. So far, they have been shirking their responsibilities.

Kaşıkçı of the Turkish Motorcycling Federation (TMF) has criticised the fact that traffic is regulated according to the need of cars and that this can cause motorcycle deaths.

Ahead of Turkish local elections on 29 March this year, the Amargi Women’s Cooperative organised a panel on women in local politics.

750 workers in Bursa’s third-largest steel factory who are members of a trade union have begun to strike.

Dink family lawyer Tuna evaluated the investigation of defence lawyer Turgut as positive but a step taken far too late. She is not optimistic about the trial.

The Women’s Shelter “Purple Roof” has published a book based on interviews with fifteen women seeking refuge with the organisation.

We asked people in the streets of Eminönü, central Istanbul, what they thought about Barack Obama’s election. The answers were cautiously optimistic.

Kurdish MP Sırrı Sakık holds arrested general Ersöz responsible for the rights violations in Kurdish areas and calls for a thorough investigation.

Journalist Aydin spoke about the hope which Dink, as a socialist Armenian, inspired in others. Dalkıran summarised the events of the murder trial so far.

Parliamentarian Arıtman of the People’s Republic Party reacts to President’s characterization of the campaign designed to apologize to the Armenians as a civil campaign allowed by the freedom of expression and accuses him of having an Armenian origin.

The Prime Minister criticizes those who campaign to apologize to the Armenians about the Great Catastrophe of 1915 by describing the whole thing as irrational. The campaigners react to Prime Minister’s words.

The Youth Union protests the murder of the Greek youth by the police and draws attention to the high number of police killings in Turkey, pointing out to the hypocritical stance by the Prime Minister.

On the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the activists from the Human Rights Association (İHD) handed out the copies of the declaration on one of the busiest streets of Istanbul.

The leftist activists in Turkey held press releases in front of the Greek embassies in Istanbul and Izmir. The protestors also pointed out to the similar deaths at the hand of the security forces in Turkey.

A lawsuit against the four people who participated in an activity to protest what happened to the conscientious objector Bal has been filed under article 318 for “alienating people from the military service”.

Transsexual Dilek İnce, who was killed by a gun shot in Ankara, was interred by family and friends. The members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transvestite and Transsexual (LGBTT) Rights Platform marched to the Prime Ministry to protest the killing.

Pervin Buldan, Igdır deputy for the Democratic Society Party, says the Prime Minister makes harsh statements since he is worried about the elections. She says the Kurdish people have as much right as the Turkish people to live in this country.

Ministry of Justice launches an investigation regarding the Medical Examiner’s Report that led to the release of Hüseyin Üzmez, a writer for daily Islamic Vakit, who was accused of sexual abuse of a fourteen year old girl.

Two Dicle News Agency reporters were taken into custody while trying to cover the undercover police officers who were shooting in the air. They were released the next day.

The four soldiers who were accused of tormenting conscientious objector Mehmet Tarhan are acquitted. Tarhan’s lawyer is getting ready to appeal the verdict.