Saturday, 27 October, 2007 , 08:01 AFP — Turkish media said Saturday that the government's rejection of Iraqi proposals to curb Kurdish militants had brought closer Turkish military strikes on Kurdish rebel bases in northern Iraq.

Friday, 26 October, 2007 , 22:12 AFP — Turkey rejected on Friday Iraqi proposals to stop Kurdish rebels making cross-border attacks as too little, too late and said it remained in a "constant state of alert."

Friday, 26 October, 2007 , 21:00 AFP — Turkey said Friday that it is not satisfied with proposals that Baghdad submitted at crisis talks here to avert a Turkish military strike against Kurd rebels in northern Iraq.

Friday, 26 October, 2007 , 19:48 AFP — Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan remained ambiguous Friday on the timing of an eventual Turkish military operation against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, but hinted that it is unlikely to happen before he flies to Washington on November 5.

Friday, 26 October, 2007 , 19:02 AFP — In the midst of a crisis with Baghdad over Kurdish rebel bases in northern Iraq, Turkey's foreign minister will travel Saturday to Iran, which has urged Ankara to avoid military action against its western neighbour.

Friday, 26 October, 2007 , 18:54 AFP — The peshmerga fighters of northern Iraq's Kurdish region on Friday urged the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to release the eight soldiers the are holding hostage in Turkey.

Friday, 26 October, 2007 , 18:00 AFP — Turkey is not satisfied with the proposals Baghdad submitted at crisis talks here Friday to tackle Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq and wants more urgent measures, the foreign ministry said.

Friday, 26 October, 2007 , 16:24 AFP — As Ankara mulls possible economic sanctions against Baghdad for harbouring armed Kurdish rebels, people in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast warn that such a move will drive them to starvation and fan insurgency in their impoverished region.

Friday, 26 October, 2007 , 14:07 AFP — Crisis talks between Iraqi and Turkish ministers over threats of a Turkish strike on northern Iraq resumed Friday afternoon, an Iraqi embassy source here said.

Friday, 26 October, 2007 , 12:12 AFP — Iraq's Kurds, not Baghdad, hold the key to defusing the crisis over the Kurdish armed revolt against Turkey as the two states try to find a formula to avert a military strike, analysts and MPs said.