Sunday, 19 March, 2006 , 16:36 AFP — Demonstrators threw Molotov cocktails as Turkey's restless Kurdish community celebrated its new year Sunday amid tight security with renewed demonstrations of support for its separatist movement.

Sunday, 19 March, 2006 , 15:42 AFP — Syria's state security court on Sunday sentenced six Kurds to prison terms on charges of either separatism or belonging to illegal groups, human rights lawyer Anwar Bunni said.

Friday, 17 March, 2006 , 18:06 AFP — Two private regional television channels and a radio station will start brief Kurdish-language broadcasts for the first time in Turkey next week.

Friday, 17 March, 2006 , 12:08 AFP — The Turkish authorities are stepping up security measures in the southeast ahead of Newroz, the Kurdish New Year, amid concerns that Kurdish militants may use the celebrations to fuel unrest in the already tense region.

Sunday, 12 March, 2006 , 15:59 AFP — Turkey's main armed Kurdish rebel group said Sunday that one of its militants was behind a deadly suicide bombing this week in eastern Turkey, but underlined that it had not ordered or endorsed the attack.

Sunday, 12 March, 2006 , 14:57 AFP — Turkey's Kurds on Sunday complained of police oppression and called for an end to prejudice against their language as crucial steps towards ending a 22-year-old conflict in the southeast of the country.

Sunday, 12 March, 2006 , 14:27 AFP — Security forces on Sunday arrested a former opposition MP and several Kurdish demonstrators who were marking the second anniversary of deadly clashes in northern Syria, human rights advocates said.

Saturday, 11 March, 2006 , 13:49 AFP — Turkish and Kurdish intellectuals gathered here Saturday under tight security for a major conference to discuss a peaceful resolution to the 22-year-old Kurdish conflict in the country's southeast.

Friday, 10 March, 2006 , 14:17 AFP — Turkey's main armed Kurdish rebel group on Friday denied responsibility for a bomb attack in eastern Turkey a day earlier that killed three people and injured 19 others.

Friday, 10 March, 2006 , 13:08 AFP — Kurdish politician Massud Barzani invited Friday all Iraqi leaders to hold talks on forming a national unity government in Iraqi Kurdistan.