Tuesday, 5 May, 2009 , 16:52 AFP — Mechanical diggers gorged out rows of tombs Tuesday outside the village where 44 people at a wedding party in Kurdish Turkey were mown down in a machine-gun orgy unleashed by a clan vendetta.

Tuesday, 5 May, 2009 , 16:14 AFP — Hundreds of people wept and prayed at the entrance to the remote Kurdish village of Bilge on Tuesday after masked men with machine guns mowed down 44 people at a wedding party.

Tuesday, 5 May, 2009 , 14:37 AFP — Honour comes before everything in Kurdish regions of Turkey and blood is cleansed with blood -- with a machine gun if necessary.

Tuesday, 5 May, 2009 , 13:08 AFP — Masked assailants armed with machine guns stormed a wedding party in a Kurdish village, killing 44 people -- most of them women and children -- in the bloodiest massacre linked to a clan feud in Turkey, officials and locals said Tuesday.

Tuesday, 5 May, 2009 , 11:59 AFP — The autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq is to hold an election for its parliament on July 25, regional president Massud Barzani said on Tuesday.

Tuesday, 5 May, 2009 , 10:48 AFP — Iraq on Tuesday summoned the Iranian ambassador to protest over an air raid targeting alleged separatists in the country's autonomous Kurdish region, the foreign ministry said.

Tuesday, 5 May, 2009 , 10:20 AFP — A Turkish soldier was killed Tuesday in a landmine blast in the country's southeast, the theatre of a 24-year conflict with separatist Kurdish rebels, the Anatolia news agency reported.

Tuesday, 5 May, 2009 , 06:26 AFP — Eight armed suspects have been arrested over the killing of 44 people, including six children and 16 women, at a wedding in southeastern Turkey, Interior Minister Besir Atalay said Tuesday.

Tuesday, 5 May, 2009 , 00:56 AFP — Forty-five people, mostly women and children, were killed late Monday in an attack on a wedding party in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast believed to be linked to a clan feud, officials and witnesses said.

Monday, 4 May, 2009 , 23:22 AFP — At least 44 people were killed Monday in an attack on a wedding party in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast, an official said, as witnesses suggested a clan feud may be behind the shooting.