Sunday, 30 April, 2006 , 01:58 AFP — While Turkish Kurdish guerrillas based in northeast Iraq continue to wrestle their foes in Turkey, tensions have been brewing with neighbouring Iran.

Friday, 28 April, 2006 , 11:30 AFP — Prosecutors in Diyarbakir in the restless Kurdish region of southeastern Turkey have charged 175 people with involvement in violent clashes last month, court sources said Friday.

Thursday, 27 April, 2006 , 16:08 AFP — Turkey said Thursday neighboring Iraq should be pleased with Turkish military reinforcements at their border because Baghdad was unable on its own to tackle Kurdish rebels based on its territory.

Thursday, 27 April, 2006 , 06:42 AFP — Two Turkish soldiers were killed and another wounded in an armed attack by Kurdish rebels on a paramilitary troop station in eastern Turkey, local security sources here said Thursday.

Wednesday, 26 April, 2006 , 15:39 AFP — Iraq handed a note to Turkey on Wednesday seeking information on a recent Turkish military build-up on the Iraqi border, officials here said.

Monday, 24 April, 2006 , 07:44 AFP — Three Kurdish rebels and one Turkish soldier were killed at the weekend in clashes in a mountainous zone of mainly Kurdish southeast Turkey, authorities announced Monday.

Sunday, 23 April, 2006 , 19:26 AFP — The head of the Turkish army on Sunday defended a military build-up in the country's restive southeast as a normal and necessary step against mounting violence from armed Kurdish rebels.

Sunday, 23 April, 2006 , 10:56 AFP — Iraqi President Jalal Talabani on Sunday defended the Kurdish peshmerga militia, insisting they were a "regulated force".

Saturday, 22 April, 2006 , 15:09 AFP — Jalal Talabani, the first Kurdish president in Iraq's history, was reelected Saturday, cementing his people's powerful role on the national stage after suffering years as second-class citizens.

Saturday, 22 April, 2006 , 14:55 AFP — Turkey's main armed Kurdish rebel group alleged on Saturday that the army was preparing for an incursion into neighbouring Iraq to hunt down its militants, and warned that Ankara would suffer from such a move.