The Turkish Peace Assembly describes the campaign to apologize to the Armenians as a right move in the direction of facing the past. They claim that the citizens did what the state should have done and they accuse the counter campaigns for making living together impossible.

The vice president of the Romani People Culture and Solidarity Association of Didim district on the Aegean coast says the Romany prefer not to reveal their cultural and ethnic identity because of the negative prejudices and therefore their association has become inactive.

A new research lead by Prof. Dr. Toprak of Boağaziçi University shows that the ruling party did not transform the religiously structured conservatism in Anatolia, but fed it.

Minister of Interior Atalay admits that the police officers are under obligation to identify themselves before they are asked. The admission came after another person was beaten by police officers, when he asked them to identify themselves.

President Gül files a lawsuit against Arıtman, the People’s Republican Party deputy, for claiming that his mother had an Armenian origin. The acusation came after he said that the campaign to apologize to the Armenians was within the limits of the freedom of speech.

Thousands of Alevites met in Adana and demanded the prosecution of the perpetrators of the 30 year old Maraş massacre. They sent their questions about the massacre to the President.

Journalist Özer is sentenced under article 301, which restricts the freedom of expression, without the benefit of the examination of the case by the Ministry of Justice, as directed in the latest revision of the article.

Parliamentarian Arıtman of the People’s Republic Party reacts to President’s characterization of the campaign designed to apologize to the Armenians as a civil campaign allowed by the freedom of expression and accuses him of having an Armenian origin.

Famous transsexual singer Bülent Ersoy is acquitted of the accusation of “alienating people from military service”, which she faced for her words during a TV show that if she had a son she would not send him to the war with the PKK in the east.

The court sentenced Fidan, who was killed four years ago, Erbaş, who was not at the scene of the supposed crime, and Kalay to prison for speaking in Kurdish. Erbaş and Kalay do not even know Kurdish.

İskenderun Prosecutor launches an investigation against the head of the Iskenderun branch of the Democratic Society Party (DTP), Mahmut Aydıncı. The local newspaper “Demokrat İskenderun” is added to the investigation

The Minister of Justice replied to the claim that there were PKK militants in the electoral registers by saying that they could vote if they were Turkish citizens. According to the minister, this way they would get to know them.

The President of the Constitutional Court announces that they are still not close to making a decision in the closing case for the Democratic Society Party (DTP).

Since the Supreme Court of Appeals did not give permission to prosecute under article 301 the case in which academicians Kaboğlu and Oran are accused of "inciting hatred and hostility" by writing a report about minority rights, the 28th Criminal Court of First Instance sent the file to the Justice Ministry for permission to try it under article 301.

Prosecutor Şahin demands prison sentences for the Diyarbakır mayor and the Democratic Society Party representative for describing the Kurdistan Workers Party militants as guerillas. The suspects say they were simply expressing the pain they felt over watching people from both sides get killed in this conflict.

The Prime Minister criticizes those who campaign to apologize to the Armenians about the Great Catastrophe of 1915 by describing the whole thing as irrational. The campaigners react to Prime Minister’s words.

The women deputies of the Democratic Society Party (DTP) take a stand against the polygamy law passed by the Northern Iraq Kurdish Parliament, although the Kurdish deputies in the northern Iraq claim that the new law makes life easier for the women.

Italian artist Pippa Bacca’s murder trial is postponed to January 20 to wait for the needed documents. The women’s organizations are still denied to take part in the trial on the grounds that they were not similarly injured by the crime committed against Bacca.

The Supreme Council of Radio and Television (RTÜK) gives permission to the FM 49 radio to do non-musical broadcasting by allowing a health program aired in Kurdish. However, the radio is waiting for a politically more suitable period to do the broadcasting.

The campaign to apologize to the Armenians for the insensitivity shown to and the denial of the “Great Catastrophe” has been taken to the internet. The number of the signatures has already risen to 2500.