NGOs, mostly ignored by the media, and independent journalists from Northern Cyprus establish a common internet portal which will be operational in August 2010. Hugh Pope from ICG and Erhan Üstündağ from bianet participated in a conference about the project in Nicosia last weekend.

Police officers Tufan and Akbulut, trialed for ill-treatment of village mayor Çiğdem Nalbantoğlu, have been transferred to Şırnak and Diyarbakır. They did not attend any of the court hearings yet although the court instructed them to make their statements.

The court prosecutor called for the acquittal of Adnan Demir, director of Taraf newspaper. He is accused of violating a publishing ban because of reporting about an attack on the Aktütün Police Station. The case will be continued on 20 October.

Education Minister Çubuk published a circular concerned with lessons against discrimination planned for Turkish primary and secondary schools during the first week of the current academic year.

After news about the USA selling Patriot missiles to Turkey, the Ministry made an announcement on the matter: "The project was launched in June 2006, the tender process started on 8 April this year", including one company each from China and Russia and two companies from the USA.

Journalist Baransu is accused of "insulting the military" because of publishing news about the "Anti-Reactionary Plan" against AKP and the religious Fetullah Gülen movement. Now his file has been taken to the Ministry of Justice. The General Staff announced that they opened a trial against Baransu.

According to Journalist Organizations TGC and ÇGD, the heavy fine imposed by the Turkish tax authorities on Doğan Media Group is aimed to silence "criticism of political power" and to bring the group's course "closer to the government".

Head of the Police Intelligence Department Akyürek filed a complaint against journalist Kemal Göktaş after he has already taken journalist Nedim Şener to court. Both pressmen published books about the Hrant Dink murder, voicing their critical concerns about the handling of the case.

Journalist Yakup Önal was attacked when he took photos of a bus that had tipped over after an accident in the Tekirdağ district of Şarköy. The journalist is not able to work because of pain as a result from the assault. The prosecutor released the three suspects after he took their statements.

The Diyarbakır prosecutor's office decided to drop the trial against the parents of 10-year-old M.Ö. and Mayor Abdullah Demirbaş. With the support of Demirbaş the girl had given Kurdish lessons at home.

The Diyarbakır court decided not to release journalist Vedat Kurşun from detention. Kurşun is trialed under charges of "campaigning PKK propaganda". His lawyer Özen announced that Kurşun is trialed for his topics being picked up by other national newspapers.

Writer Sungur Savran faces a 10,000 TL compensation demand from writer Yalçın Küçük. Savran has called on Küçük to disprove his claims rather than go to court. The case continues on 24 November.

CHP chair Baykal declined the Prime Minister's request for an appointment, stating: "We are not going to be a part of this process at all". He argued that the government negotiates with the PKK and he refused secret sessions of the parliament. In addition Baykal wants Öcalan's "road map" to be published.

Authorities in the province of Ardahan have taken three journalists to court around 30 times. Fakir Yılmaz says, "We spend all our time in court."

Flood could have been prevented from turning into a disaster says Istanbul Environmental Egineeers Chamber. The reasons for the disaster are to be sought in licensing buildings erected in the river courses and in the poor sewage and rain water system. Despite meteorologists' warnings no emergency plan was prepared and no warnings were issued.

32 bodies were recovered from the floods, nine people are still missing. Hundreds of cars were dragged along by the massive force of the water. People were trapped in their cars. Buildings collapsed under the impact of the flood.

After conflicts between soldiers and PKK militants the Prime Minister said: "The bullets shot to our soldiers will not block this process. We will continue the peace process". He also declared to ask CHP for an official appointment.

According to official numbers compiled by İHD, in relation to 1.7 torture cases in 2008 and 1.4 torture cases in 2007 respectively hundreds of cases concerning "resistance against the police" were filed. İHD chairman Türkdoğan criticizes a lack of effective measures against torture and claims that these figures prove suppression of civil opposition.

The Aydın Juvenile Court dropped the case of a 13-year-old child who was trialed because of addressing Prime Minister Erdoğan with the curse "God damn you". The court announced that the crime of "defaming a public official" cannot be implemented because Erdoğan visited the town in his function as AK Party leader.

Yıldız's father could not be caught yet. He claimed to have killed his own son because of his being homosexual. Darama, who got injured in the course of the incident, was admitted to case. Lambda's request to join the case was denied. The witness claimed he had been threatened.