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.

Friday, 24 September, 2010 , 12:44 AFP — Turkey's Interior Minister Besir Atalay Friday called on Germany to crack down on separatist Kurdish rebels on its territory, handing his German colleague intelligence on activities Ankara wants curbed.

Thursday, 23 September, 2010 , 15:01 AFP — Turkey's government Thursday voiced hope for ending a bloody Kurdish rebellion through dialogue as it held rare talks with Kurdish politicians close to separatist militants leading the insurgency.