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Professor Ahmet Insel says government’s stepping aside and letting the General Staff face the public and the media is not an acceptable behavior in democracies.

Chief of Staff İlker Başbuğ critized the media about the news they have been publishing regarding the Aktütün assault of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK). He told everyone to be on the right side.

Daily Star’s news about the five lieutenants gets General Staff’s ire and formal complaint with the Press Council follows. In return, the council condemns the newspaper for violating the Code of Professional Ethics of the Press.

The Parliament passes the request to extend the permission to conduct military operations in Northern Iraq against the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) guerillas for one more year. Only the Democratic Society Party (DTP) votes against it.

Nearly all the political leaders with the exception of the leader of the Democratic Society Party (DTP) believe that the solution is in more operations in Northern Iraq and restricting the personal freedoms.

According to the president of the Human Rights Association, the police and the military want to return to the days of the state of the emergency powers to be able to search everyone and everywhere and to torture.

The Turkish Armed Forces hit 16 PKK targets in the Kandil region in Northern Iraq. According to the news agencies located in Northern Iraq, the fighter planes hit six villages.

Perinçek from the Human Rights Association and Bilgen from the Peace Assembly want the deputies to refuse the proposal to permit the Armed Forces to have operations in Iraq. Instead, they propose more peaceful options such as forming a commission for the Kurdish problem.