Gul travels to Kyrgystan

Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul delivered two-and-a-half tons of humanitarian aid to Kyrgyz officials and pledged that Turkey’s help to the country would continue following the unrest and revolution that occurred in March, 2005. Gul is on a two-day state visit to show his support for the country's democratization and stabilization ahead of upcoming elections.After being welcomed by Kyrgyz Deputy Prime Minister Ishengul Bolcurova in Biskek, Gul is set to meet with interim President Kurmanbek Bakiev as well as the foreign minister and candidates for the presidency today. Extreme torture down in 2004 A local human rights association (IHD) in Diyarbakir, headed by Selhattin Demirtas said that his organization had not received any reported cases of extreme uses of torture in 2004, which a dramatic contrast to the years before. There were 209 reported cases of abuse, however, none of them involved cases of extreme abuse the association has stated. Demirtas said that his organization was very happy with the reports. "In 2004 report there is no complaints in relation to torture methods such as electrification, bastinado and the Palestinian hanger. This is a pleasing situation for us," Demirtas said. Demirtas went on to say that there were 746 reported cases of child abuse with 16 of these resulting in death. Last year, the IHD received 109 complaints of infringements on human rights - cases of honor killings were among these. In the south east, there were 96 cases of suicide and that highest number had been recorded in Diyarbakir with 21 cases. Suspected member of the PKK detained in Diyarbakir Police arrested a suspected member of the outlawed Kurdish Rebel group Kurdistan Workers party (PKK) as she was preparing to bomb government buildings in the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir, security soruces said. The 27-year-old woman was detained late Wednesday near police headquarters in Diyarbakir, found in possession of 1.5 kilograms of C-4 plastic explosives and a detonator that could be set off by a mobile telephone. She is believed to be a member of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which waged a bloody campaign in the region between 1984 and 1999. The PKK proclaimed a unilateral ceasefire in 1999 after its leader Abdullah Ocalan was captured and tried, but it called off the truce last year, raising fears and tensions in the mainly Kurdish region of Turkey. Since then, a radical Kurdish group calling itself the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons - an offshoot of the PKK - has claimed responsibility for a parcel bomb explosion in a the Turkish seaside resort of Kusadesi in which one policeman was killed and four other people were injured. Â