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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Tuesday, 25 July, 2006 , 20:08 AFP — An Istanbul court on Tuesday upheld a ruling denying a retrial to Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of Kurdish separatist group PKK, the Anatolia news agency reported.

Tuesday, 25 July, 2006 , 09:20 AFP — Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for NATO to join the combat against mounting violence by Kurdish rebels holed up in northern Iraq, the Anatolia news agency reported.

Saturday, 22 July, 2006 , 20:00 AFP — The United States, firmly in support of Israel's strikes in Lebanon, grappled Saturday with Turkey's warnings that it is losing patience in the face of attacks by Kurdish rebels based in Iraq.