At a time when walls are being demolished in Europe, will we see a wall between Turkey and Greece?

The latest statements made by the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), AbdullahÖcalan, to his lawyers on İmrali, have turned all eyes toward the terrorist leader.

Ayşe Çaman (65) from Espiye, Giresun province, has been a miller for 50 years. She is the only miller left in her village and wants to continue with her job for as long as she can.

Finally, the expected has happened. When the 102nd article of the Code on Criminal Procedure, which reduces the maximum duration of imprisonment to three years for suspects with cases on appeal and abnormally lengthy trials, came into force at the beginning of 2011, those whose trials are waiting at the Supreme Court of Appeals or whose trials for serious crimes -- such as murder, drugs, rape and forgery– have exceeded five years, have begun to be released by the courts.

The democratic autonomy issue brought up by the Democratic Society Congress (DTK) has been found very problematic by everyone. Whose autonomy will it be?

No, this will not happen thanks to surveys. No matter how much they try to twist the survey results, nobody believes them, and the results do not come out how they wish.

Having to bid farewell to 2010, a year in which Turkey witnessed significant developments in the progress of its democracy, analysts are now focusing on their expectations for 2011 and the developments that are likely to take place in the country this year.

Although heavy snow is preventing access to 179 villages in the eastern provinces of Van and Hakkari, hindering daily life, children in Hakkari’s Yüksekova enjoy it by having snowball fights.

President Abdullah Gül, who paid a visit to Diyarbakır last week, left his mark there as“a man of conscience and as a man with humane feelings.” All the messages he gave there were based on conscience and humanitarian values. He used a language of compassion.

When one takes a look at century-old conditioning, it may not be easy to understand the real importance of Gül’s Diyarbakır visit.