Foreign Minister Ismail Cem, who is on a visit to the United States, meets with U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Cem also meets with Deputy Secretary of State Marc Grossman. After months of surviving on sugared or salted water, Zeynep Arikan starves to death on Thursday, becoming the 37th person to die in a protest by leftist militants against new high-security prison system. The recently appointed Commander Aegean Army Gen. Hursit Tolon expresses the need for concrete evidence the attack on the United States was carried out from abroad in order to enact NATO Article 5. Panic breaks out on a Russian flight Wednesday after a passenger insisted on getting off just moments before takeoff.
Police searches the aircraft for a bomb, but finds nothing.
President Ahmet Necdet Sezer speaks to the Azeri, Pakistani and Kirghiz presidents to assess the latest developments concerning the U.S. attack on Afghanistan to get Osama bin Laden, the head suspect of the terrorist act in the United States. An amendment to Article 38 of the Constitution, which ensures the death penalty for terrorists but lifts it for non-terrorist heinous crimes is passed through the voting in Parliament. Writer Muhsin Kizilkaya wrote in his book about the experiences of Yilmaz Erdogan on the path to fame. The book narrates the common memories of Kizilkaya and Erdogan, the latter of whom came to Istanbul to be an electrical engineer in 1985. His loves, longings, disappointments, the environment in which he grew up and the difficulties he faced are described in the book.