The Ankara Bar Association has announced it will stop assigning free lawyers to suspects and victims involved in Criminal Procedural Code prosecutions after states failure to cover expenses.

Attacks and threats, detentions and arrests, trials and attempts, regulations and quest for rights, censorships and reactions against monopolization, European Court of Human Rights and RTUK Penalties.

Derya, fiercely articulate and newly invigorated after counseling, said she was determined to get on with her life. This region is religious and it is impossible to be yourself if you are a woman, she said. You can either escape or kill yourself.

Journalist Eser to be tried at Criminal Court of First Instance for news reports on a driver who committed suicide. He face up to 2 years jail each if found guilty of insulting the memorable image of a deceased person .

Initiative For Freedom of Expression expand civil disobedience action through public declaration denouncing themselves as co-offenders of journalist Dink after appeals court upholds a suspended 6 month sentence criminalizing his article in Agos weekly

60 out of 147 children involved in 560 separate offences were arrested in the southeast city of Gaziantep in the first 6 months of 2006, say local police. Dr. Yildiz says rapid rise in child offences in city is due to immigration and poverty.

Suspects in Turkey will not to get legal representation if they cant pay as Turkeys Union of Bar Associations (TBB) halts all free counseling services for defendants after Justice Ministry fails to cover the costs.

Turkeys Journalists Association (TGC) 2006 Press Freedom Awards goes to cartoonist Musa Kart for his prosecuted caricature depicting PM Erdogan as an entangled cat as well as Eskisehir Chief Justice Mithat Ali Kabaali who acquitted him.

Turkish women organizations support signature campaign for Iranian Melek Ghorbany who was sentenced last month to be publicly stoned to death and will gather at Iranian consulate in Istanbul this Saturday to read out press statement.

European Court of Human Rights agrees to hear application made to stop Southeast Ilusu Dam which will flood historical town of Hasankeyf and hundreds of archeological sites while displacing tens of thousands of people at heart of ancient Mesopotamia.

Officials say 5 villages in Hakkaris Yuksekova district have been placed under quarantine in fear of anthrax outbreak after loss of 80 livestock. District Agriculture Director warns locals against contracting disease.

TGC, TSYD, Gaziantep Journalists Association, Gaziantep chambers of Commerce and Industry condemn attack on Gaziantep 27 newspaper owner Okkes Ozeksi and wife, demand culprits to be apprehended and charged. Ozeksi in intensive care has brain surgery.

Turkish-Armenian weekly Agos Editor-in-Chief Hrant Dinks lawyer Fethiye Cetin says they will take his suspended 6 months prison sentence to the European Court of Human Rights. Cetin expresses sorrow for justice system, noting that the opportunity to s

Court of Appeals General Council ratifies deferred 6 month prison sentence for Armenian weekly Agos newspaper Editor-in-Chief Hrant Dink voting to reject Appeals Prosecutors final opinion of no-offence and request to quash decision..

EU Commissioner Olli Rehn criticizes Court of Cassation decision against Armenian journalist Hırant Dink, editor of weekly Agos, based in Istanbul. High Court confirmed prison sentence for insulting Turkishness.

Acting on allegations supported by photographs that Iranian PKK militant Emani was executed by security forces after being captured alive, 23 organizations file formal criminal complaint demanding an investigation into the death.

The owner of Gaziantep 27 daily and journalists Association Deputy Chair Ozeksi attacked by 2 unidentified assailants and beaten. He was seriously injured in assault and still in intensive care. Governor Kamci promises culprits will be found.

Monitoring media freedoms and rights in Turkey, BIA² discloses 56 Freedom of Expression cases launched against 67 individuals from April through June as government still seeks to impose new restrictions. Turkey pays ECHR 332,000 YTL in 1.5 years.

In the wake of a Parliament Investigation Commission Report calling for positive discrimination for women until they are equals with men in society, Erdogan issues landmark circular warning all ministries, local administrations against violence on women

Contemporary Jurists Association reveals that 50 women prisoners who were being transferred from one prison to another were severely beaten and abused by guards onthe wa. One prisoner attempts suicide after transfer.