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.
Tuesday, 9 May, 2006 , 03:59 AFP — Two small bombs exploded in government offices in the western Iranian city of Kermanshah on Monday, wounding two people, the student news agency ISNA reported.
Tuesday, 9 May, 2006 , 03:59 AFP — Two small bombs exploded in government offices in the western Iranian city of Kermanshah on Monday, wounding seven people, official media reported.
Tuesday, 9 May, 2006 , 03:59 AFP — Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday called on the Kurds of in the southeast of the country to condemn violence committed by the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
