Monday, 15 December, 2008 , 11:43 AFP — The Turkish government said Monday it will decide next year whether to end the solitary confinement of jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan.

Thursday, 11 December, 2008 , 11:37 AFP — Paris anti-terror prosecutors are hunting for two Kurdish PKK militants suspected of kidnapping a young woman near Paris to force her to join the rebel army, judicial officials and reports said Thursday.

Thursday, 11 December, 2008 , 09:17 AFP — A journalist from Iraq's Kurdish region has been pardoned after being jailed last month for a story allegedly favouring homosexuality, the Kurdish journalists' union said on Friday.

Wednesday, 10 December, 2008 , 05:44 AFP — In 2007 the main road through the Iraqi town of Al-Muqdadiyah was the frontier between Sunnis and Shiites locked in a bloody tit-for-tat of kidnappings, bombings, and the torching of mosques.

Monday, 8 December, 2008 , 17:33 AFP — Eleven young Kurds went on trial in Paris on Monday, accused of attacking two Turkish-owned bars and a cultural center in the southwestern city of Bordeaux last year.

Sunday, 7 December, 2008 , 20:09 AFP — Kurdish separatist rebels announced a unilateral nine-day ceasefire with the Turkish army from Sunday to mark the Muslim Eid al-Adha feast, their spokesman Ahmed Danis told AFP.

Sunday, 7 December, 2008 , 14:59 AFP — Authorities in northern Iraq's Kurdish autonomous region have lifted two-year-old restrictions on Iraqis entering their zone from other parts of the country, a senior official said on Sunday.

Friday, 5 December, 2008 , 21:12 AFP — Turkish warplanes on Friday bombed Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq, the army's general staff said.

Thursday, 4 December, 2008 , 17:53 AFP — Jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan is seeking compensation from Greece for having failed to prevent his capture by Turkish intelligence nearly a decade ago, a justice source said on Thursday.

Thursday, 4 December, 2008 , 14:09 AFP — A Turkish court here Thursday jailed Kurdish rights activist and former lawmaker Leyla Zana for 10 years for being a member of a separatist Kurdish rebel group and diffusing its propaganda.