Wednesday, 21 June, 2006 , 11:21 AFP — Turkish police said Wednesday they had detained two suspected Kurdish rebels in possession of 5.7 kilos (12.5 pounds) of plastic explosives believed intended for attacks in Istanbul.

Tuesday, 20 June, 2006 , 17:13 AFP — A Turkish prosecutor is seeking a life sentence for an alleged separatist Kurdish militant for a bombing in a popular seaside resort last year that killed five people, two of them foreigners, the Anatolia news agency reported Tuesday.

Tuesday, 20 June, 2006 , 12:39 AFP — Fifty-six Kurdish mayors risk up to 10 years in jail for signing a letter urging Denmark's Prime Minister to ignore Turkey's calls to ban a Kurdish television station with alleged links to terrorism, judicial sources said Tuesday.

Monday, 19 June, 2006 , 18:59 AFP — Denmark is under continuing pressure from the United States to withdraw the broadcast license and pull the plug on the Kurdish television channel Roj TV, Danish government sources said Monday.

Sunday, 18 June, 2006 , 15:09 AFP — Three rebels from the separatist Kurdish group PKK were killed Sunday in fighting with the Turkish army and a freight train was bombed overnight by suspected members of the group.

Sunday, 18 June, 2006 , 10:06 AFP — Suspected Kurdish rebels bombed a freight train in southeast Turkey, causing damage but no casualties, officials said Sunday.

Friday, 16 June, 2006 , 20:09 AFP — Three bombs exploded on Friday in Turkey's mainly Kurdish south east, injuring three people, media and local sources said.

Friday, 16 June, 2006 , 12:42 AFP — A radical Kurdish group on Friday claimed responsibility for a bomb attack a day earlier in a busy Istanbul neighbourhood, vowing more violence in reponse to what it called the mistreatment of Kurds in Turkey.

Friday, 16 June, 2006 , 10:52 AFP — A Kurdish rebel killed himself in a botched grenade attack on security forces who had come to raid his home in eastern Turkey late Thursday, security sources here said Friday.

Friday, 16 June, 2006 , 06:44 AFP — A bomb exploded in the mainly Kurdish city of Van in eastern Turkey overnight, causing material damage but no casualties, local security sources said Friday.