Sunday, 23 March, 2008 , 09:35 AFP — A demonstrator died Sunday from injuries sustained in clashes between Kurdish protestors and the police in the eastern Turkish city of Van, government and health officials said.

Saturday, 22 March, 2008 , 19:28 AFP — Dozens were injured and 300 detained Saturday as police used truncheons and tear gas to break up violent Kurdish protests in several Turkish cities, police and media reports said.

Saturday, 22 March, 2008 , 17:04 AFP — Dozens of people were injured and around 300 detained Saturday as police used truncheons and tear gas to break up violent Kurdish protests in several Turkish cities, officials and media reports said.

Saturday, 22 March, 2008 , 11:28 AFP — Dozens of people were injured and scores detained as police used truncheons and tear gas to break up violent Kurdish protests in several Turkish cities Saturday, media reports said.

Friday, 21 March, 2008 , 12:06 AFP — Tens of thousands of Kurds celebrated Newroz, their new year, across Turkey Friday under tight security less than a month after a Turkish army incursion against Kurdish rebel bases in neighbouring northern Iraq.

Friday, 21 March, 2008 , 10:00 AFP — Syrian police killed three Kurds in clashes which broke out as the Kurds celebrated their New Year at Qameshli near the border with Turkey, an official of the Kurdish Yakiti party told AFP Friday.

Wednesday, 19 March, 2008 , 14:43 AFP — The Iranian military on Wednesday shelled seven Iraqi border villages, causing no injuries or damage but terrifying residents, an Iraqi official said.

Tuesday, 18 March, 2008 , 15:19 AFP — Visiting US Vice President Dick Cheney urged a top Iraqi Kurd leader on Tuesday to help forge a long-term US-Iraq security agreement and pass laws seen as key to national reconciliation.

Sunday, 16 March, 2008 , 16:39 AFP — Thousands of candles were lit in central Stockholm on Sunday in memory of around 5,000 Iraqi Kurds from Halabja massacred 20 years ago in a chemical attack blamed on Saddam Hussein's forces.

Sunday, 16 March, 2008 , 12:27 AFP — Iraqi Kurds mourned on Sunday the deaths of around 5,000 villagers from Halabja who were massacred 20 years ago in chemical attacks blamed on Saddam Hussein's forces during the Iran-Iraq war.