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Ünal Osmanağaoğlu, the suspected murderer of Kemal Türkler, former president of the Confederation of Trade Unions of Revolutionary Workers (DİSK), was yesterday (30 July) acquitted for the third time, at the 2nd High Criminal Court in Bakırköy.

Of the 125 people taken to trial for their opinions in the period of April, May and June, around half are journalists, and most cases are concerned with the "Kurdish question".

The Crimlinal Court N°13 of Istanbul has decided to ban the publication of the daily Günlük for month on charges of "propaganda for the PKK". The same daily had earlier been banned many times on similar charges.

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli remains a solo warrior in his opposition to the government's Kurdish initiative, a road map in progress announced last month that aims to find a settlement to the country's long-standing Kurdish question.

In a document which the foundation handed the Minister of the Interior it outlined its own vision of progess towards a solution of the Kurdish question.

„Revealing Chauvinism“: Turkey refuses the deceased Armenian artist Aram Tigran a last resting-place Turkey’s refusal to allow the Armenian singer Aram Tigran to be buried in the Kurdish metropole of Diyarbakir has been described by the Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV) as “revealing chauvinism”.

"The far-right MHP is strongly opposed to Kurdish cultural and political reforms, seeing such moves as a threat to the country's national unity…"

The main Iranian political parties and top politicians who are based in the United Kingdom held a meeting on 26 July to express their support for the struggle of Iranian people in Iran.

On 6 August, Armenian-Kurdish musician Aram Tigran died in Athens, Greece.