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Attack on police, bomb blast injure seven in southeast Turkey


Monday, 6 March, 2006 , 16:19 AFP Suspected Kurdish militants opened fire Monday on a police vehicle in southeast Turkey, wounding six officers, and detonated a time bomb that injured another person, local officials said.

UN urges Iranian Kurd refugees to move to Iraqi Kurdistan


Monday, 6 March, 2006 , 15:47 AFP The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Monday urged Iranian Kurds who fled Iraq and settled in a no-man's land along the Jordanian border to relocate to Iraqi Kurdistan.

Turkey's Kurds want official status for language, broader rights


Monday, 6 March, 2006 , 15:23 AFP Turkey's main pro-Kurdish party called on the government Monday to give Kurdish the status of an official language and scrap legal restrictions barring Kurdish representation in parliament.

Iran hands over suspected Kurdish rebels to Turkey


Monday, 6 March, 2006 , 15:01 AFP Iran has handed over seven suspected Kurdish separatist militants to Turkey, Anatolia news agency reported Monday.

Senior Turkish general accused in probe over shady bombing: report


Monday, 6 March, 2006 , 12:19 AFP A prosecutor has accused Turkey's land forces commander of acting outside the law in the fight against separatist Kurdish rebels, rattling the influential army, newspapers reported Monday.

Bomb blast leaves one injured in southeast Turkey


Monday, 6 March, 2006 , 10:31 AFP One person was injured in mainly Kurdish southeast Turkey on Monday when suspected Kurdish rebels detonated a time bomb, local officials said.

Turkish general under investigation over Kurd killing:reports


Monday, 6 March, 2006 , 09:55 AFP The general commanding Turkey's land forces is under legal investigation over allegations of a lethal bomb attack in an area largely populated by Kurds, the restless minority seeking independence, newspapers reported here Monday.

Nine killed in Iraq as Kurds lobby Sistani for Jaafari ouster


Sunday, 5 March, 2006 , 18:26 AFP At least nine people were killed across strife-torn Iraq as Kurdish leaders on Sunday lobbied reclusive Shiite cleric Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani to stop outgoing Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari from heading the next government.

Kurdish militants claim Turkey bomb attack


Sunday, 5 March, 2006 , 17:52 AFP A radical Kurdish group claimed responsibility Sunday for a bomb attack targeting a police building in western Turkey, leaving one person injured.

One injured in bomb blast in Turkey


Saturday, 4 March, 2006 , 14:36 AFP One person sustained minor injuries and dozens of buildings were damaged Saturday when a homemade bomb exploded near a police building in the western Turkish city of Izmir, the Anatolia news agency said.