Only 17 out of 237 MPs positively responded to invitations meeting NGOs in their electoral region, Seeking cooperation with the MPs the NGO initiative repeats the call. Next meeting is due February 28 in İzmir.

The "Ergenekon" investigation probing into Turkey's "stay behind" operations, revokes public memory. Relatives of the "disappeared" people under police custody revive their successful campaign of the 90's to raise the issue.

Currently dozens of children around Turkey are in prison. They are being kept in unacceptable conditions and may face steep prison sentences.

Abdülkadir Aygan, a former PKK member who then worked for the clandestine JITEM gendarmerie organisation for nine years, now lives in Sweden. Taraf reporter Neşe Düzel talked to him there. This is the first part of the interview.

An actor's confession of killing a Greek Cypriot prisoner of war during Turkish military intervention of 1974, a confession later retracted, sparks debate on the missing persons in Cyprus.

An increase in poverty will lead to more children working. Children’s centres need to be improved to prevent children from working in the street and education support must be a priority.

19-year-old Kırbaş has been paralysed by a police bullet. While a warrant for his arrest is still valid, the officer involved remains free. The court case continues.

Operations in 16 provinces resulted in the arrest of 39 people, among them police and army officers, as well as a trade union leader and a researcher.

The UN General Secretary has condemned Israel and at least three of its workers have been wounded. Defence Minister Ehud Barak has admitted "a grave mistake." A hospital was also bombed.

The Political Science Department of Ankara University has made its “Human Rights Centre Journal” (1991-1996), published in Turkish, and its “Revue des Droits de l’Homme/Human Rights Review”, published in French and English, available on the Internet.

Following the statement of former special operations police officer Şahin, lawyer Tanrikulu has called for a special parliamentary committee, as “a prosecutor’s investigations are not enough to face up to Turkey’s past.”

The pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) claims that the intricacies of the underground Ergenekon organisation can only be solved if the Kurdish Issue is reconsidered.