Saturday, 30 September, 2006 , 17:38 AFP — The rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has ordered a unilateral ceasefire in its 22-year-old war against Turkey, insurgent commanders told AFP in their remote mountain base.
Friday, 29 September, 2006 , 17:12 AFP — A Kurdish political activist arrested by Syrian security forces in June has been released because of ill health, lawyer and rights activist Ammar al-Qorabi said Friday.
Friday, 29 September, 2006 , 12:22 AFP — Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has rejected jailed Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan's appeal for a rebel ceasefire, calling instead on Kurdish separatists to lay down their arms.
Friday, 29 September, 2006 , 10:44 AFP — Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq wanted foreign cash to build thousands of concrete bunkers to bury dead Kurds, an Australian inquiry into abuses of the UN oil-for-food programme heard on Friday.
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.
