Sunday, 2 April, 2006 , 10:21 AFP — The leader of Turkey's main Kurdish party urged Sunday an end to deadly Kurdish riots in the southeast and called on Ankara to come up with far-reaching reforms to make permanent peace with its largest minority.

Sunday, 2 April, 2006 , 08:33 AFP — The governor of this southeastern Turkish city, at the center of deadly Kurdish riots this week, has said that only more democracy will erode Kurdish separatism and militancy in the region.

Sunday, 2 April, 2006 , 01:59 AFP — Ethnic riots in southeast Turkey this week left eight dead and 250 wounded in the worst urban violence to hit the region in a decade, reviving bitter memories of the heyday of the Kurdish rebellion that has claimed more than 37,000 lives so far.

Saturday, 1 April, 2006 , 15:37 AFP — The death toll from a week of violent street clashes between Kurdish youths and security forces in Turkey rose to eight Saturday with fresh riots near the Syrian border.

Saturday, 1 April, 2006 , 13:59 AFP — The chief prosecutor in the Saddam Hussein trial said on Saturday that documents depicting the ex-president's role in the killings of around 180,000 people, mostly Kurds, in the Anfal campaign were ready.

Saturday, 1 April, 2006 , 13:25 AFP — Kurdish protestors went on the rampage in southeastern Turkey on Saturday in the fifth day of deadly street clashes with security forces that have raised fears of new ethnic bloodshed.

Friday, 31 March, 2006 , 20:01 AFP — A stray bullet killed a toddler Friday as Kurdish protesters battled security forces in southeastern Turkey, a hospital said, raising the death toll this week to seven.

Friday, 31 March, 2006 , 18:56 AFP — Turkey Friday repeated its call for Denmark to close down a Danish-based Kurdish television channel which it considers a mouthpiece for violent Kurdish separatists.

Monday, 27 March, 2006 , 15:03 AFP — More than 100 people were arrested last week in northern Syria when a demonstration by thousands of Kurds celebrating their New Year turned violent, a human rights activist said Monday.

Sunday, 26 March, 2006 , 16:37 AFP — Iraqi Kurdistan's President Massud Barzani asked leaders of the two main Kurdish parties to form a single government for the autonomous region in the north of the country.