Turkey lost feminist writer Duygu Asena on 31 July. Her novels created most of todays feminists who this Tuesday were there to pay her their final respects in the knowledge that her memory, concepts and struggle will live on.

Three suspects have been arrested on charges of attempted murder after attacking Corlu Press Members Association Chairman Erdal Ozcan with wooden clubs. Press Council says attack in Tekirdags Corlu township is crude and primitive.

Atilim newspaper writer Emin Orhan has been released from prison after two week arrest following a house raid in Izmir. 8 more journalists still held in Turkish prisons, solidarity platform says

Diyarbakir Prosecutor has launched an inquiry into retired General Tokat who publicly revealed that he had ordered clandestine street bombings to frighten judges assigned to the Southeast. Right NGOs file criminal complaints for bombings.

Rania Masri: Number of fatalities as result of Israeli bombardment is reflected incorrectly very wrong. According to Crisis Desk, 1,000 have died. Over 850,000 have been displaces. Israel has still not given the map of the 400,000 mines it buried.

Pepper and tear gas used to disperse protest against Israel by members of civil society organizations and political parties in Istanbul. Officers beat up demonstrators, confiscate flags and pennants.

Labor and women organizations, academics and students march from Taksim Gezi Park to Dolmabahce under a joint banner demanding Israel to stop. DISKs 3-day sit-in protest of Israeli aggression in the Middle East ends with public rally calling for peace.

Revelations made by retired General Tokat that he ordered clandestine street bombings in residential areas in the Southeast to get judges and civil servants in line with reality are seen as criminal confession. Bar Association demands immediate inquiry.

Constitutional Court rejects local tribunals appeal to overturn legislation requiring police to have judge permission to conduct searches. Decision underlines that the Turkish police cannot conduct arbitrary body searches or search possessions.

Initiative to Structure Childrens Justice System writes to President and Main Opposition Leader asking them to take new Anti-Terror Law to Constitutional Court and have it expunged: Children cant be protected from terror by limiting rights.

Novelist Shafak is to stand trial on September 21 at an Istanbul court, facing charges of insulting Turkishness in her new bestseller Father and Bastard. Shafak now faces up to 3 years imprisonment under article 301 of the Criminal Code.

Turkeys Human Rights Foundation calls on Justice Ministry to allocate resources for free counseling in wake of TTB decision to halt services due to lack of funding. The right to access to counsel means prevention of torture. Its the governments duty t

Istanbul court acquits novelist-journalist Perihan Magden on charges of discouraging people from military service. Magden was indicted for 2005 magazine article Constientious Objection Is A Humans Right.

Turkeys Revolutionary Workers Unions Confederation is launching a nation-wide Stop Israel! campaign with press conferences to be held in all regions and statements against Israeli attacks to be read at all work places.

A gay and lesbian cultural magazine published by KAOS Gl was seized on grounds that it was against general morality for a cover story that analyzed pornography and homosexuality. Lawyer Aydin challenges the verdict.

A number of union members and executives were injured in a police attack when they attempted to hold a press conference in protest of layoffs. Witnesses say injuries result of gas bombs. Turkeys Transport Workers Union has condemned attack.

Prosecuted Turkish cartoonist Musa Kart and Mithat Kabaali, the judge who acquitted him on charges of insult, have received the TGC 2006 Press Freedom Awards. Kabaali says I did whatever was required for the supremacy of justice.

Turkeys Journalists Association chair Ipekci speaks out on national media saying it has fallen under the yoke of censorship and auto-censorship - stemming from pressure, blackmail and threats - as country marks 98th anniversary of lifting censorship.

A leading association on children rights has warned that the governments failure to pay for free counseling services prompting an end to the practice next month, will victimize minors threatened by torture and mistreatment and affect all defendants.

Union of Bar Associations is halting all free counseling services for defendants charged under the Criminal Procedures Code on August 1, following Ministry failure to cover costs. Thousands of defendants who cant afford lawyers are at loss.