Friday, 7 April, 2006 , 13:49 AFP — Istanbul police Friday rounded up 11 suspected Kurdish militants and seized nearly eight kilograms (17.5 pounds) of explosives believed to have been destined for bomb attacks in Istanbul, the Anatolia news agency reported.

Thursday, 6 April, 2006 , 17:14 AFP — Hundreds of sympathisers of the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Turkey protested Thursday in northern Iraq against killings by Turkish security forces during clashes with Kurds last week.

Thursday, 6 April, 2006 , 15:23 AFP — Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan angrily rejected criticism Thursday that an excessive use of force was to blame for the loss of life during Kurdish riots last week.

Thursday, 6 April, 2006 , 11:24 AFP — Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan angrily rejected criticism Thursday that an excessive use of force was to blame for the loss of life during Kurdish riots last week.

Wednesday, 5 April, 2006 , 20:14 AFP — Separatist Kurdish rebels killed five soldiers and a policeman in Turkey's southeast, officials said Wednesday, as violence continued to plague the country in the wake of deadly Kurdish riots.

Wednesday, 5 April, 2006 , 19:00 AFP — Radical Kurdish militants claimed responsibility for a bomb attack Wednesday against an office of Turkey's governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Istanbul.

Wednesday, 5 April, 2006 , 13:25 AFP — Separatist Kurdish rebels killed five soldiers and a policeman in Turkey's southeast in the wake of deadly Kurdish riots in the region, officials said Wednesday.

Wednesday, 5 April, 2006 , 13:17 AFP — Turkish prosecutors say they cannot retry Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan, serving a life sentence since 1999, under current law regardless of a European court finding that he was unjustly condemned, the Anatolia news agency reported Wednesday.

Wednesday, 5 April, 2006 , 12:46 AFP — A week of deadly ethnic riots has further restricted the manoeuvering room of Turkey's main Kurdish party, accused of collaborating with an armed separatist rebellion, experts said Wednesday.

Wednesday, 5 April, 2006 , 11:02 AFP — Separatist Kurdish rebels killed at least three soldiers and a policeman in Turkey's southeast during deadly Kurdish riots, media reports and hospital sources said Wednesday.