Prof. Dr. Azrak said, If the specialty courts to be set up to replace DGMs have the same trial system as DGMs, the Constitutional amendment will have no meaning.

Amendments to article 90 placed international human rights law above internal law, said Professor Uskul. This is important in making the legal system more effective in guaranteeing human rights.

Leading European dailies said that there was a dangerous quarrel between the Turkish government and the army, Turkey underwent its deepest crisis since the permit to send troops to Iraq, and the secularism principle of Turkey was damaged.

The second International Symposium of Religions and Peace in the Light of the Common Ancestor (Abraham) (Harran Meetings), organized by Intercultural Dialogue Platform of Journalists and Authors Foundation (JAF), begins in Mardin today.

The BIA initiative set out in 1997 with the goal of providing the public with freedom of expression and information and opened a Web page four years ago. Over time it has become an alternative news pool and the representative of independent journalism.

IHD Van Branchs head Lawyer Zeki Yuksel said there were a total of 35 rights violations in April, including those that appeared in the media. Yuksel also demanded that the Bostanici Paramilitary Police Station is moved out of the residential area.

Kara, former owner of the Datca Haber newspaper, who filmed Datcas local official as he was swimming, will stand trial on May 11. He who has served in prison twice before and who faces 15 days in prison, called on his colleagues to attend the hearing.

Children, who work and live on streets go to school on the one hand and sell tissues, gather garbage or dye shoes on the other. The families of most of them have no income. Migration, poverty and unequal distribution of income push children on streets.

Kalan Muzik sent the video clip of Kurdish Mirkut song to national TVs. When none broadcasted the clip, it placed announcements on 8 newspapers. People, whose mother tongue is Kurdish, do not have access to their own cultural elements, said Okcu.

4 police officers who beat up and detained two youths who were shouting, we want jobs, were released. Police officers supported their friends with applauses and prevented the reporters from taking photographs or filming the incident in the court.

The lower commission is finalizing its studies on the TCK draft. Womens groups demand that articles in the draft law on honor crimes, virginity tests, obscenity, and shameless behavior are amended.

Prof. Ecevit said womens number in the labor force was decreasing and talked about the problems of women working in the informal sector or home. Unions are more interested in men with permanent jobs than women, said Kalaycioglu.