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.

Thursday, 5 May, 2011 , 20:23 AFP — Kurdish activists urged Turkey Thursday to stop military operations against separatist rebels and warned they may consider boycotting June elections.

Thursday, 5 May, 2011 , 15:44 AFP — One person was shot dead in southeast Turkey Thursday in a clash between supporters of a radical Islamist group and Kurds protesting the army killing of rebels, security sources said.

Thursday, 5 May, 2011 , 08:24 AFP — Kurdish rebels are the prime suspect in a deadly attack on a ruling party convoy in northern Turkey after an election rally addressed by the prime minister, newspapers said Thursday.

Wednesday, 4 May, 2011 , 13:32 AFP — At least seven people, among them four policemen, were injured in southeast Turkey on Wednesday as Kurds held violent demonstrations at the funeral of militants killed by the army.

Wednesday, 4 May, 2011 , 13:02 AFP — Iraqi and international press groups marked a year on Wednesday since the murder of a young Kurdish journalist, criticising an official inquiry into his death for lacking transparency.

Wednesday, 4 May, 2011 , 11:28 AFP — A crowd of Kurdish demonstrators attacked a police vehicle in southeast Turkey on Wednesday, leaving four officers injured, an AFP reporter witnessed.