1. Place: Harbiye Open Air Theater Ticket price: YTL 65 / 55 / 45Musica Viva Chamber Orchestra – Idil Biret & A.

2. On Monday, suspected rebels killed four police officers in an ambush near the southeastern city of Batman and detonated a bomb under the car of a military officer in the town of Idil in Sirnak province.

3. Idil Akin, general manager of Mosaic Organizations, technical organizer of the exhibition, said: «This new event is seen by many as a positive step towards establishing a free trade agreement between Turkey and the UAE.

4. Turkey has ruled out talks with the PKK, and has dismissed past overtures by the rebels as attempts only to improve their image or to undercut the Turkish military and political pressure. I cannot see any kind of link between the release of the soldiers and the eradication of PKK in northern Iraq‘‘ that Turkey is pressing for, said Yalim Eralp, a former Turkish diplomat. Neither will anyone in the state institutions.‘‘ Even as news of the release spread, skirmishes between the two sides continued, with a village guard employed by the government and two Kurdish rebels killed in the border town of Idil, state–run Anatolia news agency reported.