Saturday, 28 November, 2015 , 13:33 AFP — A leading Kurdish lawyer was shot dead Saturday in southeast Turkey after unknown attackers opened fire on a gathering in the mainly Kurdish province of Diyarbakir, triggering a shootout with police, local officials and witnesses said.

Saturday, 28 November, 2015 , 11:11 AFP — A leading Kurdish lawyer was shot dead Saturday in southeast Turkey after unknown attackers opened fire on a gathering in the mainly Kurdish province of Diyarbakir, triggering a shootout with police, hospital sources and witnesses said.

Saturday, 28 November, 2015 , 10:26 AFP — A top pro-Kurdish lawyer was shot dead Saturday while caught in the crossfire during an armed clash involving the police in Turkey's restive southeast, hospital sources said.

Thursday, 26 November, 2015 , 20:03 AFP — US soldiers are in Kobane, the town in northern Syria nearly destroyed in fierce fighting with the Islamic State group, to train Kurdish forces to battle the jihadists, Kurdish sources said Thursday.

Thursday, 26 November, 2015 , 17:38 AFP — US soldiers are in Kobane, the town in northern Syria nearly destroyed in fierce fighting with the Islamic State group, to train Kurdish forces to battle the jihadists, Kurdish sources said Thursday.

Thursday, 26 November, 2015 , 16:49 AFP — US soldiers are in Kobane, the town in northern Syria nearly destroyed in fierce fighting with the Islamic State group, to train Kurdish forces to battle the jihadists, Kurdish sources said Thursday.

Monday, 23 November, 2015 , 11:13 AFP — The charismatic co-chairman of Turkey's main pro-Kurdish party has escaped an assassination attempt, the party said Monday, but the authorities denied any such armed attack had taken place.

Monday, 23 November, 2015 , 06:32 AFP — The prominent co-chairman of Turkey's main pro-Kurdish party was targeted by an assassination attempt while travelling in his official vehicle but escaped unharmed, the party said Monday.

Monday, 23 November, 2015 , 03:17 AFP — Sahin Donmez surveys the damage to his house after almost two weeks of street battles between Kurdish militants and the Turkish security forces in the southeastern town of Silvan.

Sunday, 22 November, 2015 , 16:37 AFP — A Turkish Kurd fighter who commanded a unit battling Islamic State (IS) jihadists in Syria was buried Sunday in Istanbul two months after his death in clashes, amid anger over the delay in bringing his body home.