Wednesday, 5 April, 2006 , 13:17 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.

Wednesday, 5 April, 2006 , 12:46 AFP — A week of deadly ethnic riots has further restricted the manoeuvering room of Turkey's main Kurdish party, accused of collaborating with an armed separatist rebellion, experts said Wednesday.

Wednesday, 5 April, 2006 , 11:02 AFP — Separatist Kurdish rebels killed at least three soldiers and a policeman in Turkey's southeast during deadly Kurdish riots, media reports and hospital sources said Wednesday.

Wednesday, 5 April, 2006 , 08:23 AFP — A policemen died in hospital from injuries sustained in an armed attack by Kurdish rebels in the southeast of the country, hospital sources here said Wednesday.

Wednesday, 5 April, 2006 , 06:45 AFP — Turkish security forces have seized ten kilos (22 pounds) of plastic explosives, mainly used by Kurdish militants, in the country's biggest city Istanbul, local officials said Wednesday.

Tuesday, 4 April, 2006 , 17:15 AFP — A court in Iraq's northern Kurdistan region Tuesday sentenced to death 12 members of militant group Ansar Al-Islam for numerous killings and explosions, an Arbil judiciary official said.

Monday, 3 April, 2006 , 10:10 AFP — The death toll from a week of violent clashes between Kurdish protestors and Turkish police rose to 15 Monday when two more people died from their injuries, an official said.

Monday, 3 April, 2006 , 08:43 AFP — An armed Kurdish rebel group that has claimed several deadly bomb attacks in Turkey in the past threatened Monday to hit tourist targets across the country.

Monday, 3 April, 2006 , 08:35 AFP — A week of violent clashes between Kurdish protestors and police in southeastern Turkey has spread to Istanbul and left 13 dead nationwide, a senior official said Monday.

Sunday, 2 April, 2006 , 22:59 AFP — A molotov cocktail attack set ablaze a bus in Istanbul late Sunday, resulting in three deaths, as Kurdish riots rattling southeast Turkey for six days spead to the west, the CNN Turk news channel reported.