Saturday, 4 October, 2008 , 12:17 AFP — The European Union condemned Saturday an attack by Kurdish separtists on a military post in southeastern Turkey which left at least 15 soldiers dead.
Saturday, 4 October, 2008 , 12:12 AFP — Turkish President Abdullah Gul on Saturday vowed a strong response after 15 Turkish soldiers and 23 Kurdish rebels were killed in the deadliest clashes in a year after a rebel attack near the Iraqi border.
Thursday, 2 October, 2008 , 09:11 AFP — Nearly 40 people were arrested in a town in western Turkey following riots triggered by the death of two men who were deliberately run over by a Kurdish van driver, news reports said Thursday.
Monday, 29 September, 2008 , 12:15 AFP — Separatist militants with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on Monday announced a temporary ceasefire during the post-Ramadan celebrations, a spokesman told a Turkish news agency.
Sunday, 28 September, 2008 , 09:55 AFP — A Kurdish mayor of a northern Iraqi town was wounded on Sunday in a roadside bomb attack along with with six of his guards, police said.
Sunday, 28 September, 2008 , 09:29 AFP — For Iraqi Kurdish mathematics teacher Mohammed Aziz, two wrongs can make a right. After decades of forced exile by the Baath party of Saddam Hussein, he is back with a vengeance.
Saturday, 27 September, 2008 , 12:02 AFP — A member of the Kurdish peshmerga died when Iraqi police on Saturday raided a peshmerga security post in the troubled town of Jalawla, Salah Koikha, spokesman for the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, a leading Kurdish political party, told AFP. An Iraqi security official speaking on condition of anonymity confirmed the incident, saying the troops targeted a cell of the peshmerga secret service known as Asayish.
Friday, 26 September, 2008 , 09:57 AFP — Turkish warplanes successfully struck 16 targets in a fresh raid targeting separatist Kurdish rebels in neighbouring northern Iraq, a senior Turkish general said Friday.
Friday, 26 September, 2008 , 07:25 AFP — Turkish warplanes have bombed several areas of Iraq's northern Kurdish region targeting guerrillas of Kurdistan Workers' Party, a local official told AFP on Friday.
Friday, 26 September, 2008 , 02:03 AFP — In a mirror image of Kirkuk, the Kurdish town of Khanaqin near the border with Iran that holds sizeable oil reserves is being exposed to ethnic tensions and rival territorial claims.
