Monday, 23 October, 2006 , 12:54 AFP — A Dutch appeals court said Monday that it would study the possibility of hearing former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein as a witness in the appeals case of a Dutch businessman, convicted for supplying chemicals used in gas attacks on Kurdish villages in Iraq in the 1980s.
Saturday, 21 October, 2006 , 14:33 AFP — Separatist Kurdish rebels in Turkey have released the son of a provincial official from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) after keeping him hostage for almost a month, the Anatolia news agency reported Saturday.
Friday, 20 October, 2006 , 09:52 AFP — More than three million Turkish Kurds have signed a declaration proclaiming loyalty to jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan, whom Ankara sees as the country's number one terrorist, activists said Friday.
Thursday, 19 October, 2006 , 10:20 AFP — Guards cut off the water supplies to Kurdish detainees in a desert prison deep in Iraq's south, a witness told the court in Thursday's session of Saddam Hussein's genocide trial.
Wednesday, 18 October, 2006 , 13:29 AFP — Saddam Hussein's troops drove terrified Kurdish villagers into the desert and gunned them down by the truckload, witnesses told the ousted Iraqi leader's genocide trial Wednesday.
Tuesday, 17 October, 2006 , 15:31 AFP — A court in Maastricht, southern Netherlands, on Tuesday rejected a Turkish extradition request for Nedim Seven, sought by Ankara because he allegedly carried out deadly attacks for the PKK, the Dutch news agency ANP reported.
Tuesday, 17 October, 2006 , 09:50 AFP — At least 30 people died every day in Saddam Hussein's grim prisons, a Kurdish witness said Tuesday as the stormy trial resumed of the ousted Iraqi president and six others on genocide charges.
Monday, 16 October, 2006 , 08:53 AFP — Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in remarks published Monday, played down the army's vow to fight Kurdish rebels to the last "armed terrorist" as too ambitious, and impossible to achieve.
Saturday, 14 October, 2006 , 11:59 AFP — Two Turkish soldiers were killed and another wounded Saturday in the explosion of a mine which local authorities said had been laid by Kurdish separatist rebels.
Friday, 13 October, 2006 , 15:11 AFP — Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki will hold talks here next week to discuss bilateral ties and measures against Turkish Kurd rebels holed up in northern Iraq, Turkish officials said Friday.
