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The 78’ers Initiative organizes a meeting in Kadıköy for those who want a democratic and thus peaceful solution to the Kurdish ...»

Journalist Arat Dink and imprisoned Burmese monk U Gambira are among the winners of Index on Censorship's 2008 Freedom of Expression ...»

The accused gendarmerie Veysel Şahin on trial in Trabzon makes a deposition for Dink’s murder trial in İstanbul. He says they ...»

In the sixth hearing of the murder trial in Malatya yesterday, Cuma Özdemir, Abuzer Yıldırım and Salih Gürler blamed Emre Günaydın ...»

Ayşe Yılbaş and her mother appealed to the authorities many times for protection. Ironically, the accused husband managed to get protection ...»

None of the suspects confess to the Malatya murders of the three Protestans. The court completes the interrogation of the arrested ...»

The Supreme Court of Appeals confirms the acquittal of Prof. Dr. Kaboğlu and Prof. Dr. Oran, who were on trial for ...»

Islamist-feminist Hidayet Tuksal bursts against AKP spokesperson Firat's statement that "AKP women would not be slaves to the feminist ideology". Feminist ...»

Dengir Mir Fırat of AKP claimed that the feminist thinking creates a medium of clash between man and woman. He addressed ...»

The Turkish Parliament passes the revised 301 with the new expressions of “Turkish Nation” and “the State of the Turkish Republic” ...»

Far right nationalists storm a Kurdish Festival. Police could not disperse the crowd. One dies. DTP deputy accuses the authorities. ...»

In the next hearing on July 7 Dink's murder suspect O.S. will be 18 and the trial open to the press. ...»

“What happened on April 24, 1915?”. Ara Sarafian of the Gomidas Institute, debates with Turkish colleagues Keskin, Aydın and Zarakolu. It's ...»

15 months later, with a hearing nearly every three months, the court has still not determined all the responsible parties in ...»

“We have not been able to get a hold of those, who planned and provoked the incident, and their organization,” stated ...»

Last night everyone knew that Arasta was the place to be. For one moment, for one day, Arasta became the great ...»

Just after Hrant Dink’s murder, high school student Sahin threatened publisher Abay, who had made a statement relating to the murder, ...»

Dink family lawyer Fethiye Cetin believes that the Dink murder trial may help to find those involved in the Ergenekon organisation ...»

In a battle in Sirnak 3 soldiers and 9 PKK militants died, while 5 soldiers were wounded. Military operations continue in ...»

After it has emerged that Trabzon Gendarmerie Commander Colonel Öz ignored intelligence of murder plans, lawyers have called for his prosecution ...»

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