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Chief of Staff İlker Başbuğ made his annual evaluation speech at the War Academies Command in Istanbul on 14 April. Kurdish politician Ekinci sees no great change to the past.

Cynics have remarked how quickly the ruling AKP acted on lifting the headscarf ban for university students while ignoring other, more pressing issues of rights and freedoms.

Around 400 academics have signed a statement which calls for democratisation not only around clothing rules at university.

The Peace Parliament organised a symposium entitled “Democratisation and the Kurdish Issue during the New Constitutional Process.” Without women, peace is not achievable.

From Frankfurt, Germany to Budapest, Hungary and to Berlin, Cologne and London hundreds across the globe joined the ten thousand people in Istanbul in memory of Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, in the first year of his assassination.