Wednesday, 13 February, 2013 , 17:39 AFP — Turkey's Islamic-rooted government is set to submit a new legal package that would tune its often criticised anti-terrorism laws to European standards, parliamentary sources said Wednesday.

Tuesday, 12 February, 2013 , 20:33 AFP — Seventeen Kurds have been arrested in southwestern France in an anti-terror probe into extortion rackets used to raise funds for the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), legal sources said Tuesday.

Tuesday, 12 February, 2013 , 18:57 AFP — Police have arrested six Kurds in Spain suspected of financing armed activities of the outlawed militant group PKK in Turkey, the government said Tuesday.

Tuesday, 12 February, 2013 , 12:41 AFP — Fifteen Kurds have been arrested in southwestern France in an anti-terror probe into extortion rackets used to raise funds for the outlawed Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK), legal sources said Tuesday.

Tuesday, 12 February, 2013 , 09:59 AFP — German federal prosecutors on Tuesday pressed charges against a 46-year-old Turkish man suspected of raising money for the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) throughout Europe.

Monday, 11 February, 2013 , 12:54 AFP — A 19-year-old Kurdish man was killed late Sunday when a home-made grenade exploded in his hands during a demonstration in Turkey's Kurdish-majority southeast, local authorities said.

Sunday, 10 February, 2013 , 12:30 AFP — US President Barack Obama said he believes Turkey's efforts to try to resolve the three-decade conflict with Kurdish rebels will lead to "real progress," according to remarks published in a Turkish newspaper on Sunday.

Sunday, 10 February, 2013 , 11:02 AFP — A bomb exploded on the roof of an Iraqi satellite channel's offices a day after the broadcaster aired a caller's criticism of a revered Kurdish leader, an official said on Sunday.

Wednesday, 6 February, 2013 , 14:39 AFP — An Ankara prosecutor's office has launched an investigation into the alleged killer of three Kurdish women activists who were shot dead in Paris last month, the state-run Anatolia news agency reported Wednesday.

Wednesday, 6 February, 2013 , 00:09 AFP — Seen by some as emblematic of the Mediterranean landscape and cuisine, the olive tree in fact has its domesticated roots in Kurdish regions, said a study Wednesday that seeks to settle an age-old debate.