Thursday, 6 July, 2006 , 14:20 AFP — A Turkish prosecutor has asked for two-and-a-half-years in jail each for two leading members of the country's main Kurdish party over a leaflet to mark Women's Day on March 8, the Anatolia news agency reported.

Thursday, 6 July, 2006 , 13:41 AFP — Iraq's Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said in Athens Thursday that he expected Turkish forces to refrain from pursuing Kurdish separatists from Turkey into Iraqi territory.

Monday, 3 July, 2006 , 16:29 AFP — Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Monday the new Baghdad government is ready to revive three-way talks with neighboring Turkey and the United States to discuss measures to curb Turkish Kurd rebels based in the northern of his country.

Sunday, 2 July, 2006 , 21:18 AFP — A policeman was killed in an accidental explosion Sunday in southeastern Turkey as a bomb believed to have been planted by Kurdish rebels was being defused, a local official said.

Friday, 30 June, 2006 , 12:24 AFP — Two Turkish soldiers were killed and five wounded in an attack by Kurdish rebels on a gendarmerie post in the eastern province of Bungol, local authorities said Friday.

Tuesday, 27 June, 2006 , 16:29 AFP — A leading Kurdish politician risks a fresh trial in Turkey on charges of collaborating with armed Kurdish rebels, court sources said Tuesday.

Tuesday, 27 June, 2006 , 15:13 AFP — A radical Kurdish group claimed it was responsible for a weekend explosion that killed four people at a tourist site in southern Turkey, a Kurdish news agency reported Tuesday.

Tuesday, 27 June, 2006 , 12:03 AFP — The Anfal campaign of the late 1980s, for which former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and six co-defendants will go on trial in Baghdad on August 21, was the climax of decades of antagonism between Iraq's Kurds and the central government.

Tuesday, 27 June, 2006 , 11:01 AFP — The trial of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein on charges including genocide for a brutal campaign against Kurds in the 1980s that left 100,000 people dead was set Tuesday for August 21.

Tuesday, 27 June, 2006 , 08:57 AFP — The trial of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein on charges including genocide for the Anfal campaign against Kurds in the 1980s has been set for August 21, the Iraqi High Tribunal said Tuesday.