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Prosperous Yet Unhealty

Inhabitants of Turkeys most prosperous province Kocaeli, benefit from lesser health facilities than Turks living in the German city Dusseldorf, shows a research by Dr. Kaya of Kocaeli University.

25 November 2004

Mother Tongue Problem in Childrens Rights

Prof. Polat said Turkey still didnt pass harmonization laws about the Childrens Rights Convention, 15 years after adopting it. According to Polat, institutions responsible for serving children have many shortcomings.

25 November 2004 Erhan Üstündağ

Municipal Police Cannot Guard Morals

The municipal police have no authority to warn the youth who hold hands or cuddle on the shore. The real crime being committed here is to violate peoples freedoms, said lawyer Cinmen.

29 September 2004 Yıldız Samer

Mediterranean, Time Bomb!

Greens from Turkey and Spain urge for resignation of their respective Ministers of Environment for their part in the sinking of a Spanish ship with toxic waste in Turkish southern port of Iskenderun. Mediterranean is turning into a time bomb they say

9 September 2004

Turkeys Participation in EMCDDA

Agreement concerning the participation of the Republic of Turkey in the EMCDDA will be initialled at the premises of Turkish Academy against TADOC on Thursday

Train Accident in Tavsancil

Four people died after two trains collided in Tavsancil hamlet of Gebze town of northwestern Kocaeli province on Wednesday.

36 Killed as New Express Train Derails

At least 36 people lost their lives when a packed express train crashed on the way from Istanbul to Ankara. Transportation Minister Binali Yildirim under fire for allowing the new express train along old tracks in spite of warnings from specialists.

Golden World Award on Allergy Goes to Akdis

Prof. Dr. Aksit receives the 2004 gold medal, the biggest prize in allergy research in the world, by the World Allergy Research Foundation. He won more than 20 awards, including Simavi Medicine Award, Prof. Storck Prize and Allergopharma Prize.

19 July 2004 Net

Kids for FreedomBrings Children to Marmaris

63 children from six different countries, all from economically disadvantaged families and suffering from psychological problems, came to Marmaris through an organization of the International Yacht Club (IYC).

Wedding of the Year: East & West Together

Prime Minister Erdogans daughter got married with Berat Albayrak, the son of correspondent Sadik Albayrak. About 7,000 guests, including Jordanian King Abdullah, Pakistani President Musharref, Greek and Romanian prime ministers attended the wedding.

EU Fund For Regional Development Projects

250 million Euros to be provided by the European Union (EU) as part of its 2004 fiscal year cooperation will be used for regional development projects.

Grand Meeting Against Invasion, NATO, Bush

BAK, Union Against NATO and Bush, Committees Against Invasion will protest the NATO summit in Istanbul in June. They will stage a demonstration in Istanbul on June 27. The anti-war activists will act together to make their voices heard.

Gays&lesbians Urge for Equality Before Law

Representatives of gay&lesbian groups urge for inclusion of their demands in the new draft criminal law moved by the government. Gays&lesbians raise their demands that sexual identity is not regarded as provocation in homosexual murders.

28 May 2004 Burçin Belge

Center to Protect Children

Meltem Yatagan, the spokeswoman for the Childrens Friends Study Group, said they were working to set up a Child Protection Center. The center will be set up with financial support from the World Bank.

Poverty Pushes Children onto Streets

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.

7 May 2004 Erhan Üstündağ

Turkey is Second in Honey Production

Turkish Apiarists Union chair Yilmaz said that the EU imported some 200,000 tons of honey each year and Turkey, which produces 70,000 tons of honey each year, exports only 18,000 to Europe.

12 April 2004 Umut Tarhan

Massive Rally Against US War in Iraq

The anti-war activists will protest U.S. and British forces at the Taksim Gazi Park on the first year of the invasion of Iraq. They will emphasize that the lies about the reasons of invasion have become more obvious a year later.

Owner of Manner Magazine Arrested

Muharrem Cengiz of Manner in the Culture and Arts World, magazine, was arrested at the Istanbul DGM where he went as a witness. He was sent to prison because of statements against him. His magazine and Group Yorum criticized the arrest.

8 March 2004 Erol Önderoğlu

Homosexuals Criticize Statue Protest

The Rainbow Homosexual Society Movement criticized Cicek, who objected to placing a statue of Attalos IIs statue in Antalya saying he was gay. They said he had animosity against homosexuals and called on everyone to put an end to discrimination.

11 February 2004

Istanbul Meeting for A World With no Wars

Peace activists from France, Israel, England and the United States of America will attend the International Meeting for a World With no Wars, organized by the Coalition for Global Peace and Justice. The meeting will be held at the Bilgi University.

22 January 2004

25 Killed, 390 Wounded in Two Blasts

In two simultaneous explosions in HSBC Bank headquartes in Istanbuls financial district Levent and in the British Consulate in Beyoglu district 25 were killed and 390 wounded. Britains İstanbul Council Roger Short too is killed.

20 November 2003

Turkeys Jews Feel Security Slip Away

A million bombs cannot drive us Jews out of here, said Josef Habib Gerez, a 77-year-old painter in Istanbuls Galata neighborhood, home to Neve Shalom, the citys largest synagogue.

17 November 2003 Amberin Zaman

Death Penalty should be Outlawed Altogether

TIHV head Onen and IHD head Ondul said Turkey has to ratify protocol 13, which outlaws peacetime and wartime executions, along with protocol 6, which only outlaws peacetime executions.

14 November 2003

Deporting Kurdish Boat PeopleArouses Protests

Refugee support groups are calling the Australian governments success in towing a fishing boat carrying 14 Kurdish men from Turkey back to Indonesia a flagrant violation of international treaty obligations.

13 November 2003 Bob Burton

Earthquake Victims Detained

The earthquake victims spent the fourth anniversary of the Marmara earthquake under detention in Ankara. They demand that the government allocates plots to their cooperative and ask for a ten-year mortgage.

13 November 2003

Mine Danger will increase as villagers return

4 children died, 7 were injured when they accidentally set off a leftover explosive in the Uluderediscrict of the southeastern . There are many leftover explosives in the area that cause deaths and injuries.

6 November 2003 Burçin Belge

Religious Education at Temples

Religious is not a profession, it is a faith, said Dink, the editor-in-chief of the Agos Newspaper. There should be a discussion on the training of religious officials, not on religious education at schools, said Dink.

17 October 2003 Burçin Belge

Wheat, Grapes, Hazelnut: Furious Producers

With the IMF and World Bank policies, Turkey has started importing goods that it could produce and export. In hazelnut production, producers surrendered to foreign monopolies. Problems will continue unless producers organize.

25 September 2003 Abdullah Aysu

Global Protest Against Global Attacks

BAK is calling on everyone in Turkey to be out on the streets on September 27 along with the whole world. The aim of the demonstration in Ankara will be to put pressure on Turkeys parliament as Turkey considers to send troops to Iraq.

22 September 2003

Honor Killings in Turkey

Last month a woman named Semse Allak was buried in a corner of a municipal cemetery here. She, unmarried and pregnant, had died from a stoning. When she died on June 7, noone from her family and relatives claimed her body and attended the funeral.

15 July 2003 Dexter Fılkıns

One out of 70 Mosques in Turkey is in Kocaeli

There are 838 mosques as opposed to 496 schools in Kocaeli. 612 of the mosques are in villages. In Kandira, there are 186 mosques, eight of which are in the district center, and only 26 schools.

Cyprus - Retrieving the Past

Turkish Cypriot family finds old friends in hitherto off-limits southern Cyprus. Ioannou, the young Greek Cypriot soldier, had risked his life to help my Turkish Cypriot family. My father hid for several days in fear of being rounded up again.

24 June 2003 Esra Aygın