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Saddam says Kurdish guerrillas launched 'insurgency'


Tuesday, 12 September, 2006 , 08:15 AFP Ousted dictator Saddam Hussein on Tuesday urged the chief judge of his genocide trial to label Kurdish peshmerga guerrillas as "insurgents" as they had battled his regime.

Saddam to face angry Kurds again as trial resumes


Tuesday, 12 September, 2006 , 06:36 AFP Ousted dictator Saddam Hussein's trial on genocide entered its fifth hearing on Tuesday, a day after the former Iraqi ruler charged that Kurdish testimonies against him were dividing the country.

Turkey's main Kurdish party calls for rebels to declare ceasefire


Monday, 11 September, 2006 , 13:56 AFP Turkey's main Kurdish party on Monday asked Kurdish separatists fighting the government to call a ceasefire amid mounting bloodshed in the country's southeast, the Anatolia news agency reported.

Iraqis should feel no guilt over Kurd deaths: Saddam


Monday, 11 September, 2006 , 12:14 AFP Ousted dictator Saddam Hussein said Iraqis should not feel guilty for the Kurds who were killed under his regime, at his trial hearing Monday on charges of genocide.

Former Kurdish woman guerrilla testifies in Saddam trial


Monday, 11 September, 2006 , 11:52 AFP A former female Kurdish guerrilla told the court trying ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein on charges of genocide Monday how she witnessed first-hand the horror of gas attacks against her people in the late 1980s.

Former Kurdish guerrilla testifies in Saddam trial


Monday, 11 September, 2006 , 08:22 AFP A former female Kurdish guerrilla told the court trying ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein on charges of genocide Monday how she witnessed first-hand the horror of gas attacks against her people in the late 1980s.

Turkish police capture Kurdish bomb suspects


Sunday, 10 September, 2006 , 12:17 AFP Turkish police said Sunday they had captured two Kurdish militants suspected of being behind two bomb blasts in Istanbul earlier this year, along with five alleged collaborators.

Iran bans "Half Moon" as it premieres at Toronto film festival


Saturday, 9 September, 2006 , 17:29 AFP Kurdish director Bahman Ghobadi learned this week as his film "Half Moon" premiered at the Toronto film festival that Iranian authorities had banned its release back home, he told AFP late Friday.

Iraq arrests Kurdish politician with PKK links


Friday, 8 September, 2006 , 16:12 AFP The head of an Iraqi Kurdish party with close links to Turkey's PKK guerrillas has been arrested, a security official said Friday, a month after Iraq promised Turkey it would crack down on the rebels.

Turkish soldier killed in Kurdish rebel attack


Thursday, 7 September, 2006 , 09:49 AFP Separatist Kurdish rebels killed a Turkish soldier and wounded another in an armed attack in the southeastern province of Siirt, the governor's office there said.