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.
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.
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.
Tuesday, 5 September, 2006 , 14:27 AFP — A 10-year-old boy was shot dead Tuesday in a clash between Kurdish rebels and Turkish soldiers in the country's restive southeast, the local governor's office said.
Monday, 4 September, 2006 , 19:37 AFP — Seventy-five Syrian Kurds arrested by security forces in the northern city of Aleppo on March 20 have been freed, the National Organization for Human Rights in Syria said Monday.
Monday, 4 September, 2006 , 15:21 AFP — Iraqi security forces found Monday the remains of 18 Kurdish men, women and children whom they believe were buried alive in a mass grave during the former regime of Saddam Hussein.
Monday, 4 September, 2006 , 15:08 AFP — Turkey's government was in the hot seat Monday after a weekend of bloodshed by Kurdish rebels triggered calls for a tough military response and Kurdish politicians blamed mounting violence on Ankara's failure to find a democratic solution to the 22-year conflict.
Sunday, 3 September, 2006 , 13:22 AFP — The president of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region launched a scathing attack on Iraqi Arab leaders Sunday over their opposition to his order banning the national flag from public buildings.
Sunday, 3 September, 2006 , 12:23 AFP — The president of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region launched a scathing attack on Iraqi Arab leaders Sunday over their opposition to his order banning the national flag from public buildings.
Sunday, 3 September, 2006 , 12:19 AFP — A Turkish soldier died Sunday from injuries sustained in a mine blast, taking the number of Turkish troops killed by Kurdish separatist rebels over the weekend to eight, Anatolia news agency reported.
