Wednesday, 14 June, 2006 , 09:54 AFP — A member of the banned Kurdish rebel group PKK has been extradited from Austria to Germany where he has long been sought for militant attacks, the federal prosecutor's office said on Wednesday.

Sunday, 11 June, 2006 , 17:30 AFP — Kurdish rebels killed two Turkish soldiers and injured five others in an ambush in eastern Turkey on Sunday, the semi-official news agency Anatolia said.

Saturday, 10 June, 2006 , 13:11 AFP — Turkey's main Kurdish separatist rebel group called Saturday on Kurds to refuse to serve out their mandatory stint in the army or at least refuse to take part in operations in the country's Kurdish southeast.

Saturday, 10 June, 2006 , 07:48 AFP — Two Kurdish rebels were killed early Saturday in clashes with the Turkish army in the southeast of the country, security officials said.

Friday, 9 June, 2006 , 15:45 AFP — A Kurdish mayor in southeastern Turkey was sentenced to 15 months in jail Friday for remarks deemed as praise of jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan.

Friday, 9 June, 2006 , 07:03 AFP — Four police officers were wounded when separatist Kurdish rebels opened fire on the residence of a local government official in southeast Turkey, local security sources said Friday.

Thursday, 8 June, 2006 , 18:52 AFP — A dissident Turkish sociologist was cleared Thursday of helping to organize a deadly blast after the court was unable to establish whether a bomb or a gas leak caused the explosion, Anatolia news agency reported.

Thursday, 8 June, 2006 , 18:04 AFP — One person was killed and four others injured Thursday in an explosion in the province of Sirnak in mainly Kurdish southeastern Turkey, hospital sources said.

Tuesday, 6 June, 2006 , 13:01 AFP — Two Turkish soldiers were killed and two others wounded Tuesday in an ambush by separatist Kurdish rebels, while a remote-controlled landmine targeted a school bus, leaving two more soldiers injured, officials said.

Monday, 5 June, 2006 , 07:19 AFP — Separatist Kurdish rebels ambushed a military convoy in southeastern Turkey, killing a soldier and wounding eight others, officials said.