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Suspected Kurdish rebels attack train in southeast Turkey, four injured


Sunday, 6 August, 2006 , 11:56 AFP Suspected Kurdish rebels detonated a landmine while a freight train was passing in southeast Turkey, injuring four train security guards, local officials said Sunday.

Radical Kurds claim twin blasts in Turkey, fresh bomb goes off


Saturday, 5 August, 2006 , 20:23 AFP A radical Kurdish group claimed responsibility Saturday for two bomb blasts that left 17 people injured in southern Turkey the day before as a fresh bomb targeted an office of the main opposition party.

Radical Kurdish group claims twin blasts in southern Turkey


Saturday, 5 August, 2006 , 12:20 AFP A radical Kurdish group claimed responsibility Saturday for two bomb blasts that left 17 people injured in southern Turkey the day before.

Iraq president to move against Kurdish rebels


Wednesday, 2 August, 2006 , 15:59 AFP Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said Wednesday he had personally intervened with the Turkish government to diffuse tensions over cross-border raids by Kurdish guerrilla movements in northern Iraq.

Turkey expects Iraqi, US measures against Kurdish rebels 'very soon'


Wednesday, 2 August, 2006 , 11:25 AFP Turkey has high hopes that Iraq and the United States will soon act to curb separatist Turkish Kurd rebels based in northern Iraq, the foreign ministry said Wednesday.

Suspected Kurdish rebels bomb freight train, no casualties


Wednesday, 2 August, 2006 , 07:18 AFP Suspected Kurdish rebels bombed a freight train in eastern Turkey, causing damage but no casualties, security sources said Wednesday.

Landmines kill two in southeast Turkey


Sunday, 30 July, 2006 , 19:57 AFP Two people, including a teenager, were killed in the restive southeast of Turkey in two landmine explosions blamed on armed Kurdish rebels, security sources said Sunday.

More than 100 detained in Turkish crackdown on Kurdish party


Sunday, 30 July, 2006 , 13:49 AFP Turkish police on Sunday detained some 130 people at a meeting organised by the country's main Kurdish party on the grounds that the function was linked to armed Kurdish rebels, security sources said.

Landmine kills soldier, injures two in southeast Turkey


Thursday, 27 July, 2006 , 10:00 AFP A Turkish soldier was killed and two others injured in the southeast of the country Thursday in a landmine explosion blamed on Kurdish rebels, security sources said.

US, Iraq, agree to tackle Kurdish rebel issue


Tuesday, 25 July, 2006 , 21:22 AFP The United States and Iraq have agreed to "more aggressively" tackle the issue of Kurdish rebels striking at Turkey from bases inside Iraq, US national security adviser Stephen Hadley said Tuesday.