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.
Monday, 4 May, 2009 , 21:46 AFP — At least 41 people were killed Monday in an attack on a wedding party in a village in Mardin province in mainly Kurdish southeast Turkey, an official from the governor's office said.
Monday, 4 May, 2009 , 21:16 AFP — At least 16 people were killed and two wounded in an armed attack on a wedding party in a village in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast, a mayor said.
Monday, 4 May, 2009 , 21:03 AFP — At least 16 people were killed and two wounded in an attack on a wedding party in a village in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast, a mayor said.
Sunday, 3 May, 2009 , 16:16 AFP — Officials of Turkey's main pro-Kurdish party on Sunday urged Kurds to join a protest fast against a wave of arrests of party members suspected of ties with Kurdish separatists.
Sunday, 3 May, 2009 , 16:15 AFP — Iraq's autonomous Kurds go to the polls this summer in an election likely to redraw the local political map and bring factional violence to the otherwise calm region.
Sunday, 3 May, 2009 , 10:24 AFP — Iraq's Kurdish regional government on Sunday condemned an Iranian air raid against alleged separatists inside Iraq but also called on Kurdish militants to cease cross-border attacks.