Saturday, 14 May, 2011 , 13:58 AFP — Turkish troops killed 12 Kurdish rebels in fighting in the southeast of the country and lost one of their own soldiers to a mine explosion, security sources said Saturday.
Saturday, 14 May, 2011 , 01:24 AFP — She has been through torture, imprisonment and political banishment but iconic Kurdish activist Leyla Zana is fighting on, poised to return to Turkey's parliament after two decades.
Thursday, 12 May, 2011 , 07:11 AFP — Kurdish rebels killed two police officers in an attack on a police station in southeast Turkey, local security officials and medics said Thursday.
Wednesday, 11 May, 2011 , 12:21 AFP — Norwegian oil firm DNO, among the first to operate in Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein, said Wednesday it would finally receive payment for crude oil exports from the Kurdish area of Iraq.
Saturday, 7 May, 2011 , 07:41 AFP — The Turkish army killed two Kurdish rebels in clashes early Saturday in the mountainous Mardin region, a local security official said.
Friday, 6 May, 2011 , 14:47 AFP — Jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan warned that "all hell will break loose" unless Turkey begins dialogue to end the Kurdish conflict within six weeks, in remarks from prison published Friday.
Friday, 6 May, 2011 , 12:59 AFP — Separatist Kurdish rebels claimed responsibility Friday for an armed attack on an election convoy of Turkey's ruling party that killed one policeman, an agency close to the militants reported.
Friday, 6 May, 2011 , 12:25 AFP — Separatist Kurdish rebels claimed responsibility Friday for an armed attack on an election convoy of Turkey's ruling party that killed one policeman, an agency close to the militants reported.
Friday, 6 May, 2011 , 08:41 AFP — Iraq has paid oil contractors in its autonomous Kurdistan region for the first time, the region's premier said in a statement released on Thursday, a significant step in an ongoing energy dispute.
Friday, 6 May, 2011 , 01:27 AFP — With tensions still high in the oil-rich ethnically mixed province of Kirkuk, some local officials are voicing support for a US Army presence here beyond a planned year-end pullout.
