Monday, 15 February, 2010 , 13:04 AFP — Hundreds of Kurdish demonstrators clashed with police here Monday in a protest marking the anniversary of Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan's capture.

Saturday, 13 February, 2010 , 16:02 AFP — Turkish police Saturday arrested 86 people suspected of links with Kurdish separatist rebels in operations in ten provinces across the country, security sources said.

Saturday, 13 February, 2010 , 13:05 AFP — Turkish police Saturday arrested 69 people suspected of links with Kurdish separatist rebels in operations in eight provinces in the southeast and east of the country, security sources said.

Friday, 12 February, 2010 , 18:44 AFP — Media rights group IPI blasted the Turkish authorities on Friday after a Kurdish-language newspaper editor was jailed for 21 years for allegedly spreading separatist propaganda.

Thursday, 11 February, 2010 , 13:09 AFP — Around 450 Kurdish troops are working with Iraqi and US soldiers in Iraq's disputed zones, with half of them deployed in the volatile Nineveh province, a military spokesman said Thursday.

Wednesday, 10 February, 2010 , 14:23 AFP — Oil production will soon resume in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, after being halted in October over a dispute with Baghdad, the country's oil minister said on Wednesday.

Wednesday, 10 February, 2010 , 13:04 AFP — A Turkish court on Wednesday sentenced the editor-in-chief of a Kurdish-language newspaper to 21 years and three months in jail on charges of spreading separatist propaganda.

Saturday, 6 February, 2010 , 13:26 AFP — The United States may offer Turkey more help with equipment and intelligence to combat separatist Kurdish rebels taking refuge in the Iraqi north, US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates said Saturday.

Tuesday, 2 February, 2010 , 16:50 AFP — The top US general in Iraq flew into Turkey Tuesday for talks on Kurdish rebels holed up in the Iraqi north, stressing that Washington wants to cooperate with Ankara and Baghdad to end the violence.

Tuesday, 2 February, 2010 , 15:30 AFP — Europe's top rights court Tuesday turned down a discrimination case by eight Kurds who were barred by Turkish courts from changing their Turkish names to Kurdish ones.