Thursday, 20 April, 2006 , 13:54 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.
Thursday, 20 April, 2006 , 11:42 AFP — Iraqi leaders on Thursday decided to cancel a much-awaited parliament session for the second time in a week, Kurdish lawmaker Mahmoud Othman told AFP.
Thursday, 20 April, 2006 , 05:52 AFP — Iraq's parliament was to meet Thursday for only the second time since it was elected in December as a top Sunni politician warned that the minority blocs in the assembly could join hands to form the next government.
Wednesday, 19 April, 2006 , 14:45 AFP — Iranian police have killed two members of a banned Kurdish rebel group operating close to the border with Turkey, state television reported Wednesday.
Wednesday, 19 April, 2006 , 09:11 AFP — The Turkish government submitted a bill to parliament late Tuesday toughening and extending the scope of an existing anti-terror law as a bloody Kurdish rebellion intensified in the country's southeast, parliamentary sources said Wednesday.
Tuesday, 18 April, 2006 , 18:02 AFP — Three Kurdish rebels and a soldier were killed in clashes in southeast Turkey, officials said Tuesday, in the latest episode of mounting violence in the mainly Kurdish region.
Wednesday, 12 April, 2006 , 07:40 AFP — Twelve separatist Kurdish rebels and two Turkish soldiers were killed in fighting in a mountainous corner of the country's southeast, security officials said Wednesday.
Tuesday, 11 April, 2006 , 17:26 AFP — A Turkish soldier was killed in a landmine blast blamed on Kurdish rebels in the southeast of the country while six teenage boys were injured in another landmine explosion, security officials said Tuesday.
Tuesday, 11 April, 2006 , 07:50 AFP — A Turkish soldier was killed and another injured when suspected Kurdish rebels detonated a landmine by remote control, security officials said Tuesday.
Monday, 10 April, 2006 , 18:29 AFP — Sunni Arab, Kurdish and secularist leaders Monday emphatically rejected Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari staying on in his post, possibly sealing the embattled Shiite premier's political fate.
