Friday, 27 March, 2009 , 22:35 AFP — Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday denied that Turkey might consider an amnesty for Kurdish rebels fighting the government as part of a broader plan to end a 24-year insurgency.
Friday, 27 March, 2009 , 17:57 AFP — Spanish police have detained a suspected leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) the Anatolia news agency reported Friday, quoting Foreign Minister Ali Babacan.
Thursday, 26 March, 2009 , 16:29 AFP — Six members of Turkey's ruling party were injured here Thursday in an attack by supporters of the country's main Kurdish party ahead of local elections at the weekend, officials said.
Wednesday, 25 March, 2009 , 11:26 AFP — The premier of Iraq's Kurdish regional government on Wednesday backed a call by the country's president for Turkish Kurdish rebels holed up in the region to lay down their arms.
Wednesday, 25 March, 2009 , 08:56 AFP — An explosion of unknown origin killed one person and left two others wounded in a shopping area in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast on Wednesday, police said.
Wednesday, 25 March, 2009 , 08:46 AFP — A Turkish colonel was jailed on Wednesday pending trial on charges of involvement in alleged summary killings of Kurds in the 1990s, a court official said.
Wednesday, 25 March, 2009 , 03:04 AFP — Battling a serious government challenge in local polls, Turkey's Kurdish party is confident of retaining power in Diyarbakir, the stronghold of Kurdish militancy, in a fresh message to Ankara for dialogue and reform.
Tuesday, 24 March, 2009 , 17:50 AFP — A Turkish court on Tuesday charged a former mayor with murder as part of a probe into the alleged extrajudicial killings of Kurds in the southeast of the country, a judicial source said.
Monday, 23 March, 2009 , 20:41 AFP — Turkish police arrested three suspected Kurdish rebels accused of a bombing that killed eight children and two adults in 2006, a police source said on Monday.
Monday, 23 March, 2009 , 20:24 AFP — Iraq on Monday warned Turkish Kurdish rebels based in its northern mountains to lay down their guns or leave the country, during a landmark visit by Turkey's President Abdullah Gul.
