Sunday, 4 March, 2007 , 14:01 AFP — The tense ethnic situation in the oil-rich northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk could have a negative effect on the entire region, Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul warned on Sunday.

Sunday, 4 March, 2007 , 10:01 AFP — A Kurdish rebel group claiming responsibility for past bomb attacks in Turkey has threatened to hit tourist targets and warned European visitors to stay away, the pro-Kurdish Firat news agency reported Sunday.

Saturday, 3 March, 2007 , 17:55 AFP — Turkish security forces seized 17 kilograms (37 pounds) of plastic explosives in the country's southeast, local officials said Saturday.

Saturday, 3 March, 2007 , 10:35 AFP — Three Kurdish politicans have been arrested in Turkey's southeast on charges of spreading propaganda for armed separatist Kurdish rebels, judicial sources said Saturday.

Friday, 2 March, 2007 , 11:43 AFP — Turkey's Kurds may respond with violence if jailed rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan's life is really in danger, the country's main Kurdish party warned Friday following claims that Ocalan is being progressively poisoned in prison.

Thursday, 1 March, 2007 , 17:43 AFP — Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday called ailing Iraqi President Jalal Talabani to convey his get-well wishes, an aide to Erdogan said, days after harsh exchanges between Ankara and the Iraqi Kurds.

Thursday, 1 March, 2007 , 16:46 AFP — Kurdish demonstrators forced their way into the United Nations building here on Thursday in protest at the reported poisoning of rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan.

Thursday, 1 March, 2007 , 15:59 AFP — Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan has been poisoned in jail in Turkey, his lawyers said Thursday, demanding the United Nations dispatch a medical team to investigate.

Tuesday, 27 February, 2007 , 18:38 AFP — Turkish leaders warned Iraqi Kurds Tuesday that their claims to the ethnically volatile, oil-rich city of Kirkuk in Iraq and talk of independence would fuel conflict in the region, Anatolia news agency reported.

Tuesday, 27 February, 2007 , 13:02 AFP — A Kurdish mayor was fined 3,000 lira (about 2,200 dollars, 1,650 euros) Tuesday for allowing women to use an official vehicle when they marked the birthday of jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan two years ago, the Anatolia news agency reported.