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.

Sunday, 2 April, 2006 , 22:43 AFP — A molotov cocktail attack set ablaze a bus in Istanbul late Sunday, resulting in three deaths, in the sixth day of Kurdish riots in Turkey, the CNN Turk news channel reported.

Sunday, 2 April, 2006 , 20:35 AFP — Two more people were reported dead Sunday in a sixth day of Kurdish riots in Turkey, bringing the death toll to 10, as the violence spread from the southeast to the country's biggest city Istanbul.

Sunday, 2 April, 2006 , 16:19 AFP — A ninth person was reported to have died Sunday in the violence that has flared in southeast Turkey for the past week in the most serious urban disturbances to hit the region in a decade.

Sunday, 2 April, 2006 , 10:21 AFP — The leader of Turkey's main Kurdish party urged Sunday an end to deadly Kurdish riots in the southeast and called on Ankara to come up with far-reaching reforms to make permanent peace with its largest minority.

Sunday, 2 April, 2006 , 08:33 AFP — The governor of this southeastern Turkish city, at the center of deadly Kurdish riots this week, has said that only more democracy will erode Kurdish separatism and militancy in the region.

Sunday, 2 April, 2006 , 01:59 AFP — Ethnic riots in southeast Turkey this week left eight dead and 250 wounded in the worst urban violence to hit the region in a decade, reviving bitter memories of the heyday of the Kurdish rebellion that has claimed more than 37,000 lives so far.