Wednesday, 19 April, 2006 , 14:45 AFP — Iranian police have killed two members of a banned Kurdish rebel group operating close to the border with Turkey, state television reported Wednesday.

Wednesday, 19 April, 2006 , 09:11 AFP — The Turkish government submitted a bill to parliament late Tuesday toughening and extending the scope of an existing anti-terror law as a bloody Kurdish rebellion intensified in the country's southeast, parliamentary sources said Wednesday.

Tuesday, 18 April, 2006 , 18:02 AFP — Three Kurdish rebels and a soldier were killed in clashes in southeast Turkey, officials said Tuesday, in the latest episode of mounting violence in the mainly Kurdish region.

Wednesday, 12 April, 2006 , 07:40 AFP — Twelve separatist Kurdish rebels and two Turkish soldiers were killed in fighting in a mountainous corner of the country's southeast, security officials said Wednesday.

Tuesday, 11 April, 2006 , 17:26 AFP — A Turkish soldier was killed in a landmine blast blamed on Kurdish rebels in the southeast of the country while six teenage boys were injured in another landmine explosion, security officials said Tuesday.

Tuesday, 11 April, 2006 , 07:50 AFP — A Turkish soldier was killed and another injured when suspected Kurdish rebels detonated a landmine by remote control, security officials said Tuesday.

Monday, 10 April, 2006 , 18:29 AFP — Sunni Arab, Kurdish and secularist leaders Monday emphatically rejected Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari staying on in his post, possibly sealing the embattled Shiite premier's political fate.

Monday, 10 April, 2006 , 15:55 AFP — Police defused a home-made bomb found on a bus carrying judges and prosecutors to work here on Monday and suspect Kurdish rebels to be behind the failed attack, the Anatolia news agency reported.

Monday, 10 April, 2006 , 15:34 AFP — Turkey's top military official on Monday delivered a warmly worded message for the people of Diyarbakir to distance themselves from separatist Kurdish rebels as he visited the southeastern Turkish city rocked by deadly riots two weeks ago.

Monday, 10 April, 2006 , 14:20 AFP — Turkey's political leaders and senior generals joined a crowd of about 10,000 here Monday for the funeral of a high-ranking officer killed in violence in the mainly Kurdish southeast of the country.