Monday, 18 January, 2016 , 08:51 AFP — Three Turkish policemen were killed and four wounded in a roadside bomb attack blamed on Kurdish rebels in the southeast of the country, the security services said Monday.

Sunday, 17 January, 2016 , 15:22 AFP — In the heart of the Calais migrant shantytown in northern France known as the "Jungle", a cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" rings out from the ramshackle headquarters of the camp's very own radio station.

Saturday, 16 January, 2016 , 16:56 AFP — Kurdish PKK rebels while claiming responsibility Saturday for a car bombing in southeast Turkey this week apologised for having killed civilians and especially three children in the attack.

Saturday, 16 January, 2016 , 12:20 AFP — The European Union on Saturday condemned as "extremely worrying" Turkey's arrest of academics who signed a petition criticising a military crackdown in the Kurdish-dominated southeast.

Saturday, 16 January, 2016 , 01:25 AFP — Turkish police on Friday detained at least 18 academics who signed a petition criticising a military crackdown in the Kurdish-dominated southeast, triggering new alarm about freedom of expression in the country.

Friday, 15 January, 2016 , 16:22 AFP — Turkish police on Friday detained at least 18 academics who signed a petition criticising a military crackdown in the Kurdish-dominated southeast, triggering new alarm about freedom of expression in the country.

Friday, 15 January, 2016 , 13:04 AFP — Turkish police on Friday detained over a dozen academics who signed a petition criticising the military crackdown in the Kurdish-dominated southeast that angered President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, triggering new alarm about freedom of expression in the country.

Friday, 15 January, 2016 , 07:57 AFP — Turkish police on Friday detained 21 academics for "terror propaganda" over a petition denouncing military operations against Kurdish rebels in the southeast that was severely criticised by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the state media said.

Friday, 15 January, 2016 , 02:51 AFP — When a wave of deadly ethnic violence swept through the northern Iraqi town of Tuz Khurmatu, Ahmed Hassan Majid's house was on the wrong side of an invisible line.

Thursday, 14 January, 2016 , 19:13 AFP — A caricature in the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo of Aylan Kurdi, the little Syrian boy whose drowned body washed up in September on a Turkish beach, has been decried by his aunt.