Wednesday, 24 October, 2012 , 13:43 AFP — Turkey's justice minister urged hundreds of hunger-striking Kurdish prisoners Wednesday to end their protest, but did not comment on the strikers' demands.

Saturday, 20 October, 2012 , 13:55 AFP — Six members of Turkish security forces and three Kurdish rebels were killed in renewed clashes in Turkey's southeast, security officials and local authorities said Saturday.

Friday, 19 October, 2012 , 13:06 AFP — Twenty-eight Turkish soldiers were wounded and Iranian gas supplies to Turkey interrupted Friday after Kurdish rebels attacked a pipeline linking the two countries, media reports said.

Friday, 19 October, 2012 , 09:12 AFP — Twenty-eight Turkish soldiers were wounded and Iranian gas supplies to Turkey interrupted Friday after Kurdish rebels attacked a pipeline linking the two countries, media reports said.

Wednesday, 17 October, 2012 , 09:28 AFP — Three Turkish soldiers and three Kurdish rebels were killed overnight after the militants ambushed a military post and a base in southeastern Turkey, the Anatolia news agency reported Wednesday.

Wednesday, 17 October, 2012 , 09:16 AFP — Turkey's Kurdish rebels will retaliate to any Turkish attacks on Kurds in war-torn Syria, the second in command of the outlawed PKK said in an interview published Wednesday.

Sunday, 14 October, 2012 , 12:53 AFP — Authorities in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region said on Sunday that a fresh outbreak of cholera that left four people dead, the second in five years, has been brought under control.

Thursday, 11 October, 2012 , 18:26 AFP — Turkey's parliament on Thursday extended the government's mandate to order military strikes against Kurdish rebels holed up in neighbouring Iraq for another year, reported the Anatolia news agency.

Monday, 8 October, 2012 , 08:36 AFP — Press freedoms groups and relatives of an Iraqi Kurdish journalist jailed for two years for allegedly harming national security insisted on Monday he was being targeted for writing critical reports.

Monday, 8 October, 2012 , 08:28 AFP — Turkish jets bombed Kurdish rebel hideouts in northern Iraq overnight, military sources told AFP, but it was not immediately clear if there were any casualties.