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Turkish premier plays down tough army line on Kurds


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.

Mine kills two Turkish soldiers


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.

Iraqi PM due in Turkey to discuss Kurdish 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.

Kurdish rebels still a threat despite ceasefire: US envoy


Thursday, 12 October, 2006 , 15:04 AFP — Washington welcomes a ceasefire decision by Iraq-based separatist Kurdish rebels, but still sees the militants as a security threat to NATO ally Turkey, a special US envoy said here Thursday.

Kurdish women tell of rapes in Saddam's death camps


Tuesday, 10 October, 2006 , 14:19 AFP — Kurdish women told Wednesday how they had witnessed savage rapes, murders and other horrors in Saddam Hussein's death camps, as the ousted Iraqi leader's genocide trial continued.

Kurdish women tell of rapes in Saddam's death camps


Tuesday, 10 October, 2006 , 12:20 AFP — Kurdish women told Wednesday how they had witnessed savage rapes and other horrors in Saddam Hussein's death camps, as the ousted Iraqi leader's genocide trial continued.

Saddam expelled from dock as Kurds tell of death camps


Tuesday, 10 October, 2006 , 10:33 AFP — Ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein clashed with his judge and was expelled from court Tuesday after a Kurdish woman told of the horrors she had seen in the former regime's brutal death camps.

Kurd tells Saddam trial of death camp atrocities


Tuesday, 10 October, 2006 , 09:02 AFP — Ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein sat impassive in the dock Tuesday as a Kurdish villager told the genocide trial about the horrors of life and death in the former regime's brutal death camps.

Dutch warcrimes convict wants Saddam Hussein as appeals witness


Monday, 9 October, 2006 , 17:22 AFP — A Dutch businessman, convicted for having supplied chemicals used in gas attacks on Kurdish villages in Iraq in the 1980s, requested on Monday that former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein be called as a witness at his appeal.

Kurds accuse Saddam of slaughtering families


Monday, 9 October, 2006 , 13:40 AFP — Kurdish witnesses accused Saddam Hussein on Monday of cramming their starving families into disease-ridden death camps and casting the bodies of the fallen into mass graves.