Left political groups and trade unions join forces to campaign against growing number of layoffs. Starting in October with a wide signature collection the campaign is planned to last for three months, for bringing employers under stricter measures to cancel work contracts.

Members of Genç Praksis magazine have completed oral history projects with 12 witnesses of the military coup in 1980.

At the last hearing, defendant Yıldırım said that he got young men to bomb the newspaper, but he denies involvement in the State Council attack.

Minister Eker has mentioned plans of knocking down Diyarbakır prison and building a school there, but former prisoner Kankılıç calls for a memorial to the suffering there.

The peace process in Northern Ireland began in 1994, but it took 13 years for peace to be achieved in the region. The most strenuous opposition came from the Protestants, who felt that the British government "sold" them to IRA terrorists.

Official data show a drop in unemployment in the last two months. Trade union confederation DİSK say real unemployment stands at 5.4 million.

Thanks to the efforts of the Revolutionary "78'ers" Federation, after 26 years the farewell letter of Erdoğan Yazgan was taken from the military archives and finally given to Yazgan's family. Yazgan had been executed on 29 January 1983 <fter the military coup in 1980.

The imprisoned PKK leader spoke to his lawyers on the prison island on 14 August, and the Fırat News Agency published parts of the conversation.

The investigation on the death of convict Mikail Tekin in Belgium and the murder of business woman Arzu Erbaş Çakmakçı continues. Three Belgium prison guards and the father of a child from Çakmakçı's day nursery are currently on suspicion.

Professional associations say that the necessary legislation has not been passed and that not enough buildings have been strengthened.

Student protesters say that their protests drew the government's attention to the increase by up to 500 percent of university fees.

According to the third Ergenekon indictment, there were plans to assassinate Armenian and Alevi leaders, DTP representatives and the writer Orhan Pamuk.

The indictment of 52 suspects has been accepted by the Istanbul 13th High Criminal Court.

According to architect Demirkan, the flooding in Giresun has been caused by human error.

56 defendants faced their first day in court in the second Ergenekon trial.

The journalism trainees created their own first pages of newspapers and were later handed their certificates.

On the eve of the start of the second Ergenekon trial, demonstrators protested against reported plans for the prosecutors and judges in the case to be transferred elsewhere.

Around two thousand people gathered and marched against the construction of a third bridge across the Bosphorus in Istanbul.

Contemporary Iranian society is full of contradictions. The oppressed people of Iran seem to have no other way out of the religious oppression by the Islamic regime than praying to God!

Participants in the journalistic training course were told about the importance of organised labour.