Tuesday, 14 April, 2015 , 11:41 AFP — Hungary will send up to 150 soldiers to Iraq to support the US-led coalition's fight against the Islamic State group, lawmakers decided on Tuesday.

Monday, 13 April, 2015 , 17:08 AFP — The annual Istanbul Film Festival on Monday announced that it had scrapped all its competitions this year due to a bitter row over a film about Kurdish rebels pulled from the event following intervention by Turkish authorities.

Monday, 13 April, 2015 , 13:32 AFP — A Turkish court on Monday acquitted a Dutch journalist tried on charges of spreading "terrorist propaganda" for the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a judicial source said.

Monday, 13 April, 2015 , 13:26 AFP — Dozens of Turkish filmmakers, including Cannes Palme d'Or winner Nuri Bilge Ceylan, said Monday they would boycott the Istanbul Film Festival over "censorship" after it pulled a documentary on Kurdish rebels following intervention by Turkish authorities.

Sunday, 12 April, 2015 , 16:56 AFP — Kurdish militia made headway on Sunday into Syria's northern Raqa province, where the extremist Islamic State group has set up its de facto capital, Kurdish officials and a monitor said.

Sunday, 12 April, 2015 , 14:31 AFP — A documentary film on Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters has been pulled from the Istanbul Film Festival at the last minute following an intervention by the Turkish culture ministry, organisers and producers said Sunday.

Sunday, 12 April, 2015 , 12:26 AFP — Turkey's government and Kurdish militants on Sunday exchanged angry accusations after the most serious clashes this year that threaten to undermine a fragile peace process.

Saturday, 11 April, 2015 , 20:41 AFP — Five rebels from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) were killed and four Turkish soldiers wounded in a day of clashes Saturday, the army said, in a blow to a fragile peace process to end a decades-long insurgency.

Saturday, 11 April, 2015 , 19:56 AFP — The Turkish army said on Saturday it had killed five rebels from Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in a day of clashes in the Agri region in the southeast of the country.

Saturday, 11 April, 2015 , 17:12 AFP — Turkish troops were engaged in clashes on Saturday with over two dozen rebels from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) that left four soldiers wounded and dealt a blow to a fragile peace process.