Justice Ministry rejected the appointment request made by Turkey's four prominent Kurdish party leaders to visit PKK founder Abdullah Ocalan this morning in Imrali island.

Fearing that their bosporus campus might soon be transformed into a hotel complex, a group of Galatasaray University students launched a petition demanding a preservation guarantee from the Tourism Ministry.

A blaze raged through the historical Bosporus building of Galatasaray University last night, leaving the central campus building in ruins.

BirGün newspaper journalist Duygu Kıskanç has been detained by the police yesterday as she was reporting on the Patriot missile protests in Adana province.

Hundreds of thousands people gathered in Diyarbakir early to this morning to say a last goodbye to Sakine Cansız, Fidan Doğan and Leyla Şaylemez, 3 Kurdish politicians who were cold-bloodedly killed in Paris on January 9.

All current historical renovation-restoration efforts account to the reinvention of a neo-Ottoman eclectic style," said Edhem Eldem, history professor at Boğaziçi University.

TÜBİTAK, Turkey's official science and technology institution, ordered the halt of publication and distribution of almost all its books related to evolution theory, Radikal newspaper said.

"My brother expressed his sorrow for 3 slain Kurdish politicians and demanded an urgent result on the murder investigation," Mehmet Öcalan, PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan's brother, told the press last night after returning from a visit to Imrali island prison.

Turkey's Human Right Association members disclosed a letter sent from Siirt province prison inmates saying that 5 underaged inmates were facing serious psychological problems.

On Sunday afternoon, anti-terror police teams raided an apartment in Nusaybin district in the southeastern Turkey, killing 1 PKK member who was allegedly a chief militant.

"Recent leakage case once more proves the necessity of democratization and transparency of university administrations," Tahsin Yeşildere said, commenting on the cables leaked by RedHack on Tuesday.

A recent poll by Metropol research firm showed that 42 percent of the population in Turkey supported the ongoing negotiations between the Turkish state and PKK, a prominent increase compared to another by A&G last year.