Friday, 29 September, 2006 , 09:06 AFP — Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan late Thursday rejected jailed rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan's appeal to his men to cease fire, calling instead on Kurdish separatists to lay down their arms.

Friday, 29 September, 2006 , 08:22 AFP — Turkey's main Kurdish political party Friday welcomed jailed rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan's appeal to his Kurdish separatist group to call a ceasefire and urged Ankara to seize this opportunity to end the 22-year conflict.

Friday, 29 September, 2006 , 07:38 AFP — Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq wanted foreign cash to build thousands of concrete bunkers to bury dead Kurds, an inquiry into abuses of the UN oil-for-food programme heard on Friday.

Thursday, 28 September, 2006 , 16:31 AFP — Abdullah Ocalan, the Kurdish leader who on Thursday asked his armed rebels to call a ceasefire in their war against the Turkish state, has spent roughly half his life underground, in exile or in captivity.

Thursday, 28 September, 2006 , 14:31 AFP — Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan appealed from his prison cell Thursday to his outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to call a truce in its battle with the Turkish security forces.

Monday, 25 September, 2006 , 14:18 AFP — Kurdish rebels killed a soldier in a clash in southeastern Turkey and claimed reponsibility for a bomb blast in a police building which left 17 people wounded, officials said Monday.

Monday, 25 September, 2006 , 12:46 AFP — Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has met with Turkish Kurd rebels based in northern Iraq and is expecting them to soon announce a ceasefire in their armed campaign in Turkey, an aide told Turkish television Monday.

Monday, 25 September, 2006 , 07:54 AFP — The separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has claimed responsibility for a bomb blast at a police building in eastern Turkey at the weekend in which 17 people were wounded.

Sunday, 24 September, 2006 , 15:37 AFP — Iraq's Kurdish parliament on Sunday began debating the region's permanent constitution, a contentious document laying claim to other parts of Iraq and setting conditions for Kurds to remain part of the country.

Sunday, 24 September, 2006 , 08:29 AFP — Turkish police say Kurdish separatist rebels appear to be behind a bomb attack late Saturday that left 17 injured, including five officers, in eastern Turkey, the Anatolia news agency reported Sunday.