RSF today voiced its outrage at the Six-month jail sentences imposed on two journalists of the Nicosia daily newspaper Afrika, Sener Levent and Memduh Ener, for insulting the President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Rauf Denktash.

Sener Levent, the director of the Afrika newspaper published in TRNC, and writer Memduh Ener, were arrested and sent to prison because of an article called Who is the Biggest Traitor? Cypriot journalists union criticized the arrests.

The soldier searched a house in the village of Catma with authorization for the first time in 22 years. The food quota seems to be lifted. Following 22-year-old emergency rule era, the people are trying to get used to a regular life.

Package abolishes death penalty, brings freedom of education and broadcast in non-Turkish languages, freedom of criticism of the state organs, easing restrictions against foreign NGOs working in Turkey, greater freedom for non-Muslim minority foundations.

Human Rights Watch: Turkeys Bold Reforms Fail Imprisoned Legislators. Death Penalty, Language Restrictions Abolished; Kurdish Parliamentarians Still Jailed

Lawyer Ilkiz, journalist Boncuk and activist Yurdatapan comments on Turkeys move to abolish death penalty, allow Kurdish education and broadcasts, and grant broader freedom of expression.

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With the nationalists likely to make these new laws the central issue in early parliamentary elections scheduled for November 3, there will seemingly be little public pressure on Ankara not to follow Washingtons lead on intervention in Iraq.

712 people including 15 women, have been executed during the last 80 years. At the moment, 1500 people trials are continuing, face death penalty. 125 people have been sentenced to death penalty which was abolished in August 3.

Ferit Demir, the only journalist in the region, has been working under emergency rule for the last 12 years. He has been detained three times, received threats and got kidnapped by the PKK during the period. Emergency rule was lifted in Tunceli last week.

Six-year-old Siyar, who was hit on the head with a mortar shell, was discharged from the hospital. His two sisters were killed in the same incident. Grandfather will open a lawsuit against Yuksekova Battalion Commandership.

This is the third meeting of Armenian and Turkish journalists under the project stipulating mutual visits of Armenian and Turkish journalists to learn about the lives of the two countries and the subsequent coverage in their media.

Amnesty International welcomes Turkeys abolishing of the death penalty in peacetime.

Council of Europe Secretary General Schwimmer said that this vote would be a major step forward for human rights in Turkey, in his press release in August 2.

Keskin, charged with separatist propaganda for publishing a journalist Randals book about Turkeys Kurdish minority. population, was sentenced to a six-month prison sentence, which the court converted to a fine of about 500 dollars.

Known for his staunch opposition against war on Iraq, the apparent shift in Prime Minister Bulent Ecevits tone follows series of meetings with Robert Pearson, US ambassador to Ankara.

Workers children visited their fathers at the Pasabahce SiseCam Factory. The workers began the protest nine days ago, when the production was halted. The unions, and the Beykoz Mayor Cati, went into the factory to visit with the workers.

A major United Arab Emirates Arabic daily: Anytime there is escalation in the US threat of striking Iraq, the Turkish media and political circles react in such a way that reflects the historic Turkish crave after Arab lands, especially Kirkuk and Mosul.

The business premises of Adana, Gaziantep and Diyarbakir, are worried about the effects on economy of a prospective attack on Iraq. They are uneasy because such an operation would interfere with the gas transportation and increase migration to the cities.

Ahmedi Xani had written in Kurdish, about the eternal love of Mem and Zin in Cizre, during the years 1450-1451, 240 years after they died. Mayor Yildirim declared that Mem and Zins 500-years-old mausoleums would be restored for the first time.