Saturday, 23 June, 2007 , 18:59 AFP — Some 1,500 people held a silent march through Istanbul on Saturday to protest against mounting attacks by separatist Kurdish rebels in the restive southeast of the country, the NTV news channel said.

Saturday, 23 June, 2007 , 14:10 AFP — The Anfal campaign of the late 1980s, for which six former aides of Saddam Hussein are on trial, capped decades of hostility between Iraqi Kurds and the late dictator's regime.

Saturday, 23 June, 2007 , 08:01 AFP — Turkish soldiers killed two Kurdish rebels in fighting in the eastern province of Tunceli, the governor's office said Saturday.

Wednesday, 20 June, 2007 , 16:50 AFP — Turkey is determined to combat separatist Kurdish rebels operating from bases in neighbouring Iraq, the country's top security body said Wednesday.

Tuesday, 19 June, 2007 , 09:20 AFP — Three Kurdish rebels and a Turkish soldier were killed in clashes in eastern Turkey, officials said Tuesday.

Tuesday, 19 June, 2007 , 07:58 AFP — Turkish soldiers have killed three separatist Kurdish rebels in a security crackdown in the eastern province of Erzincan, officials said Tuesday.

Monday, 18 June, 2007 , 20:47 AFP — The United States and Iraq are against any "terrorist" actions conducted in Iraqi territory against Turkey, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday.

Monday, 18 June, 2007 , 00:44 AFP — A senior commander of the separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) warned the Turkish government against sending its military forces into northern Iraq, in an interview published Monday.

Sunday, 17 June, 2007 , 17:09 AFP — Any military incursion by Turkey into the Kurdish north of Iraq would undermine Iraq's sole haven of stability and is in no one's interest, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari warned Sunday.

Sunday, 17 June, 2007 , 15:13 AFP — Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki assured Turkey on Sunday that his government wanted to halt the operations of Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq.