Tuesday, 21 July, 2009 , 11:15 AFP — An excavation was begun Tuesday inside an army compound in southeast Turkey on suspicion that 12 Kurds -- missing since 1994 -- might have been executed and buried there, judicial sources said.

Tuesday, 21 July, 2009 , 09:03 AFP — Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has given the cold shoulder to proposals that a jailed Kurdish rebel leader is expected to unveil next month to end a bloody insurgency in southeast Turkey.

Monday, 20 July, 2009 , 08:46 AFP — The president of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, Massud Barzani, insisted he will not "compromise" on longstanding Kurdish claims to the oil-rich province of Kirkuk, in a speech late on Sunday.

Sunday, 19 July, 2009 , 16:07 AFP — A new refinery that is set to produce 40,000 barrels of oil a day within months was inaugurated in Iraq's autonomous region of Kurdistan, the head of the company that built it told AFP on Sunday.

Sunday, 19 July, 2009 , 12:01 AFP — Four people including two soldiers were injured in a mortar attack by Kurdish rebels against a military post in Turkey's southeast, near the border with Iraq, local officials said Sunday.

Sunday, 19 July, 2009 , 06:58 AFP — Separatist Kurdish rebels have killed four Iranian policemen in West Azarbaijan province, a newspaper reported on Sunday.

Saturday, 18 July, 2009 , 14:57 AFP — The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) rebel group said on Saturday that it hoped the region's president Massud Barzani would be re-elected to his post in polls next week.

Saturday, 18 July, 2009 , 10:19 AFP — Turkish soldiers killed three Kurdish rebels in fighting in the south of the country, the army said Saturday, days after the militants extended a unilateral ceasefire.

Thursday, 16 July, 2009 , 10:19 AFP — Kurdish demands to expand their autonomous region in northern Iraq to include the Kirkuk oil fields and other districts threaten to trigger armed conflict, diplomats and analysts warn.

Wednesday, 15 July, 2009 , 17:51 AFP — Separatist Kurdish rebels in Turkey said Wednesday they would extend a four-month truce, as thousands of Kurds marched in their main city of Diyarbakir to call for peace.