Monday, 15 May, 2006 , 17:03 AFP — The first independent non-commercial Kurdish television station said it had started broadcasting to the Middle East via satellite from an undisclosed location near Stockholm on Monday.

Sunday, 14 May, 2006 , 10:46 AFP — Four children were killed in eastern Turkey over the weekend by a bomb blast blamed on Kurdish rebels, the Anatolia news agency reported Sunday.

Saturday, 13 May, 2006 , 17:03 AFP — Five prisoners who escaped from a high-security prison in northern Iraq jointly run with the US-led coalition have been recaptured by Kurdish forces, a Kurdish security official told AFP.

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.