Thursday, 3 March, 2016 , 09:50 AFP — Turkey has not shelled any positions held by Syrian Kurdish fighters inside Syria since a ceasefire was implemented last week, a Turkish official said on Thursday.

Wednesday, 2 March, 2016 , 17:26 AFP — Residents of Cizre in southeastern Turkey began returning home Wednesday after authorities partially lifted a curfew in place since December for a controversial operation against Kurdish rebels which left many homes destroyed.

Wednesday, 2 March, 2016 , 12:52 AFP — Residents of Cizre in southeastern Turkey began returning home Wednesday after authorities partially lifted a curfew in place since December for a controversial operation against Kurdish rebels which left many homes devastated.

Wednesday, 2 March, 2016 , 08:58 AFP — Thousands in Turkey's Kurdish-majority town of Cizre started returning to their homes Wednesday after authorities partially lifted a curfew in place since December for a controversial military operation to root out separatist rebels.

Tuesday, 1 March, 2016 , 20:21 AFP — The Turkish authorities Tuesday announced the partial lifting of a curfew in a town in the country's Kurdish-dominated southeast, in force since December as part of a major crackdown on rebels.

Tuesday, 1 March, 2016 , 11:17 AFP — Eleven people were arrested on Tuesday in a probe into an attack on the Istanbul offices of two pro-government Turkish newspapers, the state-run Anatolia news agency reported.

Saturday, 27 February, 2016 , 17:53 AFP — Fighting subsided across much of Syria Saturday as the first major ceasefire of the devastating, five-year war appeared to broadly hold despite sporadic breaches in parts of the battle-scarred country.

Saturday, 27 February, 2016 , 14:56 AFP — Turkish police on Saturday fired water cannon and tear gas to disperse thousands of protesters who demonstrated against a three-month military crackdown backed by a curfew in the mainly Kurdish southeastern city of Diyarbakir.

Saturday, 27 February, 2016 , 11:35 AFP — An independent pro-Kurdish television channel in Turkey said Saturday the authorities had ordered it to be taken off air on accusations that it broadcast "terrorist propaganda" for militants.

Friday, 26 February, 2016 , 16:29 AFP — Turkey believes the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) is no longer listening to its jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan and there is now no point in allowing him to make public statements, a senior Turkish official said on Friday.