Tuesday, 22 April, 2008 , 12:06 AFP — A Turkish court Tuesday sentenced a Kurdish politician to 15 months'jail for reportedly saying Turkey's Kurds would see a Turkish attack on Kirkuk in northern Iraq as an attack on their own main city Diyarbakir.

Tuesday, 22 April, 2008 , 07:37 AFP — A landmine explosion blamed on separatist Kurdish rebels killed a soldier and left two others wounded in southeast Turkey, the Turkish military said Tuesday.

Thursday, 17 April, 2008 , 10:01 AFP — The mayor of Turkey's largest Kurdish-populated city was Thursday sentenced to 50 days in jail for "praising" rioters, but the court later converted the term to a fine.

Thursday, 17 April, 2008 , 07:01 AFP — Two men carrying explosives were detained near a major train station in Turkey's Kurdish-dominated southeast which they were allegedly planning to bomb, police said Thursday.

Wednesday, 16 April, 2008 , 09:12 AFP — Turkish warplanes attacked a group of separatist Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq as they attempted to sneak across the border into Turkey, the Turkish military said Wednesday.

Wednesday, 16 April, 2008 , 08:06 AFP — Turkish warplanes attacked a group of separatist Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq as they attempted to sneak across the border into Turkey, the Turkish military said Wednesday.

Tuesday, 15 April, 2008 , 11:19 AFP — A Turkish court on Tuesday sentenced 53 Kurdish mayors to more than two months in prison on charges of praising Kurdish rebels, but spared them from jail by converting their sentences into fines.

Sunday, 13 April, 2008 , 11:41 AFP — Iran has upheld a death sentence for a Kurdish activist convicted of links to an outlawed separatist group after the supreme court quashed the original hanging verdict, his lawyer said on Sunday.

Sunday, 13 April, 2008 , 08:50 AFP — A Kurdish rebel group based in northern Iraq threatened on Sunday to launch bomb attacks inside Iran if Tehran fails to halt anti-Kurdish policies in the Islamic country.

Friday, 11 April, 2008 , 12:35 AFP — A protestor injured in violent Kurdish demonstrations in southeast Turkey last month died in hospital Friday, bringing the death toll from the unrest to three, the Anatolia news agency reported.