Sunday, 26 October, 2014 , 15:04 AFP — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the main Kurdish party in Syria of not wanting Kurdish peshmerga fighters from Iraq to help it fight Islamic State jihadists trying to overrun the town of Kobane, reports said Sunday.

Sunday, 26 October, 2014 , 13:44 AFP — Turkey on Sunday arrested five people over the killing of three off-duty soldiers in the Kurdish-majority southeast of the country blamed by the authorities on separatist militants, the official Anatolia news agency.

Sunday, 26 October, 2014 , 13:44 AFP — Kurdish forces in the Syrian town of Kobane thwarted a new attempt by fighters from the Islamic State group Sunday to cut off the border with Turkey before Iraqi Kurdish reinforcements can deploy.

Sunday, 26 October, 2014 , 12:31 AFP — The main Kurdish party in Syria "does not want" Kurdish peshmerga fighters from Iraq to come to help it fight Islamic State jihadists trying to overrun the town of Kobane, Turkey's president has asserted according to reports Sunday.

Sunday, 26 October, 2014 , 03:16 AFP — US-led warplanes have bombarded the Islamic State group with new air strikes as heavily armed Iraqi Kurdish fighters were on Sunday readying to reinforce the besieged Syrian border town of Kobane.

Saturday, 25 October, 2014 , 20:22 AFP — Masked gunmen on Saturday shot dead three Turkish soldiers in the restive Kurdish-majority southeast of the country, the army said, blaming separatist "terrorists" for an attack that threatens to undermine a fragile peace process.

Saturday, 25 October, 2014 , 16:57 AFP — Masked gunmen on Saturday shot dead three Turkish soldiers in the restive Kurdish-majority southeast of the country, the army said, blaming separatist "terrorists" for an attack that threatens to undermine a fragile ceasefire.

Saturday, 25 October, 2014 , 16:06 AFP — Masked gunmen on Saturday shot dead three Turkish soldiers in the restive Kurdish-majority southeast of the country, the army said, blaming separatist "terrorists" for an attack that threatens to undermine a fragile ceasefire.

Saturday, 25 October, 2014 , 15:02 AFP — Masked gunmen on Saturday shot dead three Turkish soldiers in the restive Kurdish majority southeast of the country, the official Anatolia news agency reported.

Saturday, 25 October, 2014 , 14:58 AFP — A group of Turkish mothers on Saturday led their 500th protest since the mid-1990s remembering relatives who disappeared allegedly at the hands of the state during one of modern Turkey's most turbulent periods.