Saturday, 13 May, 2006 , 14:43 AFP — A bomb explosion killed three children and badly wounded another in eastern Turkey Saturday, authorities said, accusing Kurdish rebels of responsibility.
Saturday, 13 May, 2006 , 10:11 AFP — The jailed Kurdish separatist leader Abdullah Ocalan threatened to "intensify" the armed struggle of his Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) in Turkey, the pro-PKK Firsat news agency reported Saturday.
Saturday, 13 May, 2006 , 09:45 AFP — Thousands of Kurdish refugees of the 1980s Iran-Iraq war want UN recognition of their status and to return to the Iranian town from which they were driven, one of their representatives said Saturday.
Friday, 12 May, 2006 , 11:22 AFP — A Turkish soldier was killed Friday when he stepped on a landmine believed to have been planted by Kurdish rebels in the southeast of the country, the Anatolia news agency reported.
Friday, 12 May, 2006 , 03:59 AFP — Jalal Zawayan fought for Iraq against Iran, spent nine miserable years as a prisoner of war and then came home in 1991 to discover that his whole village and most of his family had been wiped out by Saddam Hussein's regime.
Wednesday, 10 May, 2006 , 10:30 AFP — A political union agreed upon last week that, at least on paper, has merged two long-feuding Kurdish factions in Iraq's north has yet to convince Kurds the marriage is more than a show.
Tuesday, 9 May, 2006 , 16:36 AFP — Another 36 youths under the age of 18 have been charged in connection with violent riots in Diyarbakir, the main city in Kurdish-majority southeast Turkey, judicial sources said Tuesday.
Tuesday, 9 May, 2006 , 14:46 AFP — Turkish police arrested five suspected Kurdish militants and seized 7.5 kilograms (16.5 pounds) of plastic explosives believed to be destined for bomb attacks, Anatolia news agency reported Tuesday.
Tuesday, 9 May, 2006 , 03:59 AFP — For this Kurdish teenager, joining a quasi-socialist rebel movement deep in the mountains on the Iraq-Iran frontier was a way to escape becoming a Muslim housewife in ultra-orthodox Iran.
Tuesday, 9 May, 2006 , 03:59 AFP — Twenty-three minors went on trial Monday in this mainly Kurdish city over deadly rioting that shook Turkey's restive southeastern region a month ago.
