Sunday, 18 March, 2007 , 15:33 AFP — Turkish police on Sunday held 22 people for questioning during a violent protest in Istanbul organized several days before the Kurdish new year, the Anatolia news agency reported.

Friday, 16 March, 2007 , 14:03 AFP — A Turkish prosecutor Friday indicted a senior politician from the country's main Kurdish party, demanding a jail sentence of up to three years over remarks that allegedly threatened violence, court officials said.

Monday, 12 March, 2007 , 17:14 AFP — The president of the autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq, Massud Barzani, arrived on Monday in the Saudi capital, the official news agency SPA reported.

Monday, 12 March, 2007 , 16:54 AFP — Toxicology tests on jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan are negative, proving false claims by his lawyers that he was being poisoned, state prosecutors said Monday.

Monday, 12 March, 2007 , 12:20 AFP — Iraq's relatively peaceful northern Kurdistan region is to stage a trade fair this week in a bid to attract foreign investment, an official said on Monday.

Monday, 12 March, 2007 , 12:08 AFP — Turkish police detained 14 people, including a Kurdish politician, in connection with a petrol bomb attack on a bank in the northwestern town of Gebze, officials said Monday.

Sunday, 11 March, 2007 , 22:20 AFP — Supporters of the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) took to the streets with Molotov cocktails and clashed with police during protests in towns across Turkey on Sunday, reports said.

Sunday, 11 March, 2007 , 17:57 AFP — The Turkish army killed a militant from the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on Sunday during fighting in the Kurdish-populated southeast, security sources said.

Sunday, 11 March, 2007 , 16:51 AFP — The Turkish army on Sunday found the bodies of seven members of the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in a rural area in the Kurdish-populated southeast, security sources said.

Saturday, 10 March, 2007 , 17:13 AFP — Turkish police on Saturday detained 27 people after a rally supporting International Women's Day turned into a march in support of Kurdish separatists, the Anatolia agency reported.