Friday, 15 September, 2006 , 16:35 AFP — A radical faction of the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party appears to have been behind a deadly bombing in southeast Turkey, Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Erdogan said on Friday.

Friday, 15 September, 2006 , 16:33 AFP — Eight people died in clashes between Kurdish separatists and pro-government militia members in eastern Turkey on Friday, a security official said.

Friday, 15 September, 2006 , 11:52 AFP — The top court in the Netherlands on Friday blocked the extradition to Turkey of a leader of the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Nuriye Kesbir, saying that she could face torture there.

Friday, 15 September, 2006 , 07:10 AFP — A radical faction of the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), opposed to the group considering a ceasefire, is believed to be behind a deadly bombing in southeast Turkey, a senior Turkish minister was quoted as saying Friday.

Thursday, 14 September, 2006 , 19:47 AFP — Three bombs ready for detonation were found in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast Thursday following a powerful blast that killed 10, as angry protestors took to the streets to denounce the government's handling of a probe into the bombing.

Thursday, 14 September, 2006 , 15:52 AFP — Anti-government Kurdish protestors took to the streets here Thursday, hurling stones at the police and burning tyres, after a powerful bomb blast killed 10 people, most of them children.

Thursday, 14 September, 2006 , 08:39 AFP — A Kurdish witness on Thursday told the court trying Saddam Hussein on charges of genocide how he had challenged the deposed leader for the killing of his family members during the Anfal attacks.

Thursday, 14 September, 2006 , 07:35 AFP — The US ambassador to Iraq has urged American companies to invest in the northern Kurdish regions, considered relatively safe for business compared with the rest of the war-torn country.

Thursday, 14 September, 2006 , 04:26 AFP — The decision by northern Iraq's Kurdish leaders to ban the national flag and hoist their own has increased disquiet in Turkey about the prospect of a de facto Kurdish statelet on its doorstep, diplomats and analysts here say.

Wednesday, 13 September, 2006 , 16:41 AFP — Ten people including seven children were killed in the largest city in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast when a powerful bomb went off accidentally in a crowded park, officials said Wednesday.