The Human Rights Association (IHD) has condemned the fact that the Chief Prosecutor's indictment concerning the demanded closure of the DTP also writes about the IHD.

The ÖDP organised a march in Istanbul on Sunday to call for coexistence and social peace.

Condoleezza Rice has talked about the Turkish government's "comprehensive plan" to solve the Kurdish question. Erdogan speaks of the PKK laying down arms, but does not commit to a concrete strategy.

The General Staff has denied that retired generals have been told to stop talking.

Ayse Karakaya, mother of student Ertugrul Karakaya who was shot by gendarmerie thirty years ago, has been acquitted of "praising a crime and criminal".

The human rights organisations argue that elected MPs are only supposed to leave parliament with new elections. They are concerned about antidemocratic attempts to suppress dissident thoughts.

According to TIHV president Önen, Erdogan is stuck between the army and the USA. His anti-operation stance is due to US influence.

Former CHP politician Karakas has called the MHP's attempt to lift the DTP politicians' immunity "anti-democratic".

Journalists Önal in Tekirdag and Koyuncu in Afyonkarahisar both face a continuing trial in the new year. In both cases the prosecution is calling for prison sentences.

Don't be angry at the Kurdish father who sells his children to the mountains, but at the leaders who have forced him into this situation. The Turkish Republic must stop being a state which has forgotten its humane sensitivities.

Ahmet Türk of the DTP has protested against calls to lift MPs' immunity. Meanwhile, Minister of Justice Sahin has announced changes in, but not the abolition of, Article 301: "Many EU countries have similar articles."

Independent Hakkari MP Hamit Geylani has protested against attempts to have his immunity lifted for speaking Kurdish during the election campaign.