Kenneth Roth, administrator of the Human Rights Watch (HRW), described his experience with Çiçek, minister of the human rights, during his meeting to introduce his report about the police violence as meeting with a minister assigned to violate the human rights.

An investigation has been launched against Tutku Türkol, a reader of daily Birgün, who had filed a complaint against police officers for apprehending and harassing her both verbally and physically.

The court sentences Leyla Zana for the statements picked from nine of her speeches. She is accused of doing propaganda for the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK). The court deprived her of the right to elect and be elected.

Some intellectuals and academicians are getting ready to launch a campaign to apologize Armenians for the denial of the “Great Catastrophe” they were subjected to in 1915.

Court sentences Leyla Zana, a member of the former Democracy Party (DEP), to ten years in prison and deprives her of the right to elect and elected.

Antalya’s vice governor sends a circular to the prosecutor asking for information about the investigation regarding Çağdaş Gemik’s murder. Gemik's lawyer says the governorship attempts to influence the due process and thus commits crime.

Kaan Gerçek changes his previous statement about being with Ogün Samast, the murder suspect in Dink’s trial, the day before the murder. He now remembers nothing.

Turkey finally ratifies the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which it had signed last year. Once it is signed by the president, it will be binding in the internal legal arrangements concerning the persons with disabilities.

Turkey’s Disabled Association (TSD) wants the 40 percent border required of the disabled persons to have access to the services they need to be lowered to the 30 percent. They also want the removal of the contribution rate.

The court ruled for the acquittal of Faruk Çakır, director in-charge of the newspaper Yeni Asya, in the case in which he was accused of violating the secrecy of the investigation regarding the attack on the State Council

Columnist Fikri Sağlar of daily Birgün and the newspaper itself are fined in the amount of 8500 euro for writing about the questionable meeting between the Prime Minister and Büyükanıt, Chief of Staff at the time.

Journalists Hacı Boğatekin and Cumali Badur together face 18 years in the lawsuit filed against them for writing about possible connections between Prosecutor Sadullah Ovacıklı and Fethullah Gülen, a well-known Islamic community leader in Turkey.

YÖK’s circular about excusing the Jewish and the Armenian students and personnel during their religious holidays gets reactions, since the other religious groups are not included in the new practice.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that Ahmet Gemici’s freedom of expression was violated when the bulletins of the Labor Party (EMEP) were seized in a police raid and he was punished for having banned publications in his possession.

The organization which calls itself “Revolutionary Headquarters” assumed the responsibility for the explosion at the Istanbul building of the Justice and Development Party that resulted in ten wounded.

Trabzon’s Chief Prosecutor’s Office has launched an investigation against Colonel Ali Öz and five gendarme officials for possible neglect in Hrant Dink’ murder. There are no police officers on trial for the same accusation.

The number of those who live with HIV/AIDS has become 376 last year. 892 of the cases are women and 118 of them under eighteen. The Positive Life Association (PYD) advises immediate measures in Turkey where most of the population consists of young people.

Hidayet Tuksal, representative of the Capitol City Women’s Platform, says, “The reason the social sexual discrimination does not end has to do with the fact that religious perspective is not improved.”

There was an explosion in the Istanbul building of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), wounding ten people. The governor says it is likely that it was a fragment bomb.

Tayfun Görgün, secretary-general of the Confederation of the Revolutionary Trade Unions (DİSK), says the cost of the crisis should be laid on those responsible for it. He advises unity against measures meant to make the workers pay for the crisis.