Tuesday, 12 October, 2010 , 11:43 AFP — French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner urged Turkey on Tuesday to push ahead with reforms in order to advance its lagging accession negotiations with the European Union.

Friday, 8 October, 2010 , 21:51 AFP — US Vice President Joe Biden on Friday called Iraqi Kurdish leader Massud Barzani as tortuous efforts continued to form a government seven months after Iraq's elections.

Friday, 8 October, 2010 , 13:29 AFP — Separatist Kurdish rebels have kidnapped three workers from a road construction site in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast, officials said Friday.

Thursday, 7 October, 2010 , 16:50 AFP — A Danish prosecutor on Thursday asked a court to ban Roj TV, a Copenhagen-based Kurdish TV network, accusing it of supporting the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a listed terrorist organisation.

Thursday, 7 October, 2010 , 11:03 AFP — A Danish prosecutor on Thursday asked a court to ban Roj TV, a Copenhagen-based Kurdish TV network, accusing it of supporting the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), listed as a terrorist organisation.

Thursday, 30 September, 2010 , 16:11 AFP — Separatist Kurdish rebels based in Iraq extended a truce with Turkey by one month on Thursday, but warned that the conflict will not end until Ankara entered negotiations.

Thursday, 30 September, 2010 , 15:00 AFP — The separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has decided to extend its truce with the Turkish government by one month, the Kurdish Firat news agency quoted a rebel commander as saying Thursday.

Tuesday, 28 September, 2010 , 11:45 AFP — Turkey has launched a fresh drive to resolve a bloody Kurdish insurgency that has plagued the country for 26 years, seeking contacts with the rebels, and help from the United States and Iraq.

Tuesday, 28 September, 2010 , 10:15 AFP — A Turkish court on Tuesday handed a suspended 10-month jail sentence to the head of the country's main Kurdish party on charges of spreading propaganda for separatist rebels.

Monday, 27 September, 2010 , 16:23 AFP — The Turkish government will ask parliament to extend a mandate for military strikes on Kurdish rebel bases in neighbouring Iraq, Deputy Prime Minister Cemil Cicek said Monday.