The Gendarmerie raided the Ekotopya (Ecologic Utopias) Youth Camp that meets in Sinop every year between the dates 9 and 23 August. Sinop governor demanded that the camp be removed immediately. Eleven were taken into custody in an anti-nuclear demonstration against the planned nuclear plant in Sinop.

It has been suspected all along that Ogün Smast, Hrant Dink’s killer, was not alone at the scene on the day of the murder. Now the police is considering the possibility that Osman Hayal, Yasin Hayal’s brother, may have accompanied Ogün Samast on that day.

The five accused of the Malatya massacre of the three Protestants deny the charges of murder and plunder.

The personal organizer found in Ergenekon’s major suspect Veli Küçük’s house includes notes about making money from truck convoys to Iraq, intelligence report about PKK’s Öcalan and a need list with a gun with silencer on it.

There have been four explosions or bombed attacks in Güngören and Üsküdar districts in Istanbul, Mersin and Izmir. Authorities and the media held the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) responsible for the attacks, but the PKK have not assumed any responsibility yet.

In Izmir, a car was exploded with a remote control while military and police service vehicles were passing. 7 police officers, 1 colonel, 2 privates and 6 civilians passing by are injured. There is a police quarter 50 meters from the scene.

Six people protesting the nuclear power plant planned to be built in Sinop, a Black Sea Coast Town, are taken into custody. The Greens Party asks the government to cancel the plan.

Malatya’s 3rd High Criminal Court will continue hearing new witnesses in the Zirve Publication case, in which three Protestants were killed for supposedly doing missionary work. The five suspects, who are under arrest, will present an additional defense.

Osman Hayal, brother of the alleged instigator in Dink’s murder, has been taken into custody, even though he had claimed before that he was not in İstanbul on the day of the murder, but in Trabzon.

The number of internet sites and blogs protesting the internet censorship in Turkey, court orders banning the sites, has risen to 412. They darkened their pages to warn the authorities and public about the policies that make life difficult for internet publishing

The Military Prosecutor sees no need to file a lawsuit for the bad treatment and torture conscientious objector Bal had to endure. Instead, Bal may be sued under article 301 for insulting the Turkish Armed Forces.

The Human Rights Association investigates the conditions of the seasonal workers in the Black Sea provinces of Turkey. As if not enough that they are discriminated economically, they are also treated as criminals.