Pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party calls on all labor, employer organizations and NGOs to take bold and determined steps for the PKK cease-fire to be lasting. Says problem should be solved through internal dynamics and all weapons need to be silenced.

PENs Sayar gives out signals on freedom of expression after genocide vote in France saying retaliation should be by abolishing article 301. TGCs Erinc refutes France PMs statement. Prosecuted journalist Duzel wants to see what happens ın practice.

Egitim-Sen reports incidents of primary school children in Adana being questioned by the police and gendarme for outstanding credit card debts of parents. Boga: We must immediately rid ourselves of this shame of turning schools into police stations

RTUK closes down Istanbul-based radio station for airing a song of a famous folk singer and its programs on Kurdish issue and operations in prisons. Anadolunun Sesi closure enforced on Tuesday on alleged offences ranges back three years.

Turkish Union of Engineers and Architects Chambers (TMMOB) stages massive rally in capital Ankara protesting the government and calling for a free and democratic country. TMMOB Chairman Soganci says: We want a free country on the side of labour.

Ankara feels deeply regrets over French Parliaments criminalization of the denial of Armenian Genocide: Heavy blow on relations. Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrank Dink believes Senate will reject bill as Turkey presses for freedom of expression.

Genocide Denial Law will neither serve to resolve incidents in 1915 nor benefit Armenians in Turkey says minorities law expert attorney Cetin. Turkey should come to the level where it can solve its problems itself believes EU specialist Dr. Aktar.

French Parliament adopts controversial law criminalizing the denial of an Armenian Genocide. Assembly approved bill with 106 votes with members of governing UMP also voting in favor alongside socialists and opposition UDF.

Prominent Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk wins Nobel Literature Prize as the Swedish Academy announced today. In the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city, Pamuk has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures it said.

Evrensel owner Belek and chief editor Bayar at court for news articles covering demands to unveil truth behind Semdinli incidents and reporting on education sector workers plight for rights. Trial monitored by intellectuals under heavy security .

Prof. Oran says France is using Armenians and the genocide question to exclude Turkey from the EU: Fear of globalization has spread everywhere. Economist Sonmez warns that this debate can put Tukey off the rail on the way to EU membership.

Journalists Mahcupyan, Dink and Zarakolu blast French Genocide Bill as a product of repressive mentalities similar to the ones in Turkey: This bill is ethically illegal and Armenian history needs to be treated with conscience, not laws