32 local reporters and womens rights activists met at the BIA² training and discussed womens rights and reporting on womens issues. They focused on violence against women and honor murders and said We will bring womens rights into local reporting.

The Human Rights Foundation and representatives of the European Parliament reported rights violations--especially the mutilation of corpses--are occuring during military operations in Southeastern Turkey due to a lack of oversight.

Ankaras Deputy Governor Ekremoglu applies to court to shut down KAOS GL, a GLBT rights group, on the grounds that it is forbidden to found a society contrary to law and morality.

A recent study has revealed that the least-trusted institutions in Diyarbakir are the police, media and the army. People say there is need for democratization and an end to pressures for overcoming violence and torture.

Reacting agains the army Chief of Staff General Hilmi Ozkoks complaints that recent anti-terror legislation curbs them of authority, human rights activist Yavuz Onen of TIHV warns:The army is already granted abundant power. Our rights are in danger.

The participants and organizers of the WTI explained what the tribunal meant for them. Journalist Cubukcu: I didnt see any harm in saying that the war is dirty. Prof. Oran: Remaining silent means cooperating. Berktay:The notion of justice has changed.

Academics urge the government prepare facing the past vis-a-vis Armenian Genocide charges in the Ottoman Empire. Macar advises the state give up denial, while Caglar points to the fact that Turkey needs to consider international community.

NGO representatives, who attended the BIA ² projects training seminar for the rights organizations in Izmir, discussed their relations with the media. The media should be more conscious about the rights. The rights organizations have a lot to for that.

Turkey has adopted in 2003 the right to re-trial right in cases of violation of rights. The main problem regarding the issue is that the law conditions the right with an eye to exempt Ocalan of this right.

The ECHRs decision regarding the Öcalan case will not be about re-trial, but on the right to a fair trial. Mostly these two are confused.

According to legal experts, Turkey is not legally obliged to retry Ocalan. Yet, there exist flaws in terms of fair trial in Ocalan case. Law specialist Sözüer: Ocalan should be retried even before ECHR decison.

Pessimistic of the outcome of the truce between Sharon and Abbas, Palestine is the other for the cosmopolite Israeli society says Palestinian human rights activist Sahar Francis. Had they not war with Palestine they would not have peace at home.

More than 50 newspaper, television and radio reporters from eight provinces attended the media training seminar by BIA. The seminar was made up of workshops and presentations on responsible reporting and reporting on rights.