Erdogan spoke at the Forum of the Alliance of Civilisations in Madrid, discussing the headscarf and Article 301 in a press meeting.

Defendants, in the second hearing charge the main suspect Emre Günaydin with having ties with the local police chiefs. The court refuses lawyers on both sides access to certain evidence, in the files.

Police officer on trial in İzmir for shooting Baran Tursun, a young driver, allegedly without reason, is released amid angry protests from the victim's relatives. "The evidences are falsified" father Tursun says.

An informer, the day after journalist Hrant Dink's murder, called local gendarme in Trabzon and told that suspect O. S. went to Istanbul to kill the journalist "with friends", says family lawyer Fethiye Cetin.

New documents show that serious errors were made in the battle in Daglica, where 12 soldiers died and eight soldiers were kidnapped.

A year has passed. Of all my identities, I want to put forward that of a human being and commemorate Hrant Dink at the same spot. I do not accept that people are killed for their thoughts, and I do not want to get used to their absence.

Friday evening 8 pm was the first appointment for women to meet in Mis Street in Beyoglu in order to start a "purple needle" campaign against sexual assault.

Necip Capraz, owner of the Hakkari Yüksekova News newspaper, has won a case against his attacker, although he will appeal against the light punishment.

The recordings of murder suspect Günaydin in hospital were handed over to court too late, so that they will not be considered as evidence. Joint plaintiffs doubt that this was plain "negligence".

Turkey's military chief General Yasar Büyükanit faces criticism by psychologists and peace activists for publicising of a group of children who painted an image of a Turkish flag from their own blood.

Dismissed journalists spoke out about working conditions in the press on the occasion of "Day of Working Journalists".

According to research carried out by the WHO and the Iraqi government, 151,000 civilians died between March 2003 and June 2006. Non-violent deaths have increased by sixty percent.

Individuals and NGOs in Diyarbakir marched through the city on Thursday in a silent protest against the bombing: "We do not want violence," they said.

Academics, artists and rights activists join support for pro-Kurdish DTP MP Türk, whose parliamentary immunity is threatened. International support comes from reputed American intellectual Noam Chomsky and PEN.

The newly-founded Peace Parliament in Gaziantep has emphasised that "different languages, religions, confessions and cultures have lived together for centuries in this city."

The ECHR has awarded compensation to journalists who were punished under emergency law.

Lawyer Asma claims that the judiciary does not protect exploited children, but their families: "The family who forced their child to marry should have been tried under Article 233; the punishment was insufficient."

Nine local newspapers, none with a circulation of over 4,000, have been fined for "influencing the judiciary" in the Malatya murder case.

Gülcihan Simsek, the female district mayor from southeast Van province signs a collective agreement with the workers union: Male workers can be fired should they resort to domestic violence.

The ECHR has sentenced Turkey to paying Sanar Yurdatapan 3,500 Euros compensation for violating freedom of expression.