Thursday, 6 April, 2006 , 11:24 AFP — Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan angrily rejected criticism Thursday that an excessive use of force was to blame for the loss of life during Kurdish riots last week.
Wednesday, 5 April, 2006 , 20:14 AFP — Separatist Kurdish rebels killed five soldiers and a policeman in Turkey's southeast, officials said Wednesday, as violence continued to plague the country in the wake of deadly Kurdish riots.
Wednesday, 5 April, 2006 , 19:00 AFP — Radical Kurdish militants claimed responsibility for a bomb attack Wednesday against an office of Turkey's governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Istanbul.
Wednesday, 5 April, 2006 , 13:25 AFP — Separatist Kurdish rebels killed five soldiers and a policeman in Turkey's southeast in the wake of deadly Kurdish riots in the region, officials said Wednesday.
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.
