Sunday, 18 November, 2012 , 15:49 AFP — Hundreds of Kurdish prisoners on Sunday ended a 68-day hunger strike aimed at pressuring the Turkish government to give them more rights, after an appeal by jailed Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan.

Sunday, 18 November, 2012 , 10:35 AFP — Some 700 Kurdish prisoners across Turkey on Sunday ended a 68-day hunger strike after an appeal by Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan, who said at the weekend that the action had achieved its goal.

Sunday, 18 November, 2012 , 09:19 AFP — Some 700 Kurdish prisoners across Turkey on Sunday ended a 68-day hunger strike after an appeal by Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan, the pro-Kurdish news agency Firatnews reported.

Sunday, 18 November, 2012 , 08:32 AFP — Some 700 Kurdish prisoners across Turkey have ended a 68-day hunger strike after an appeal by Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan, a representative of the prisoners told the pro-Kurdish news agency Firatnews.

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Saturday, 17 November, 2012 , 17:25 AFP — The president of Iraq's Kurdistan region has ordered its peshmerga security forces on high alert, a statement issued on Saturday said, attributing the move to clashes with central government forces.

Friday, 16 November, 2012 , 02:48 AFP — The formation of a new military headquarters covering disputed territory in northern Iraq has sent already-poor relations between Baghdad and its autonomous Kurdish region plummeting.

Thursday, 15 November, 2012 , 10:17 AFP — Prominent female lawmaker and rights activist Leyla Zana who symbolises the Kurdish struggle in Turkey has joined hundreds of Kurdish inmates who have been on hunger strike for two months, one of her colleagues said Thursday.

Thursday, 15 November, 2012 , 02:41 AFP — Kurdish militiamen and residents have wrested control of yet another town in northeastern Syria near the Turkish and Iraqi borders, in what an activist said was part of an anti-Turkey "dirty game" by the regime.

Tuesday, 13 November, 2012 , 17:30 AFP — Turkey's government submitted a bill to parliament Tuesday to give Kurds the right to use their own language in court, a key demand of hundreds of prisoners who have been on hunger strike for two months.