Kurds warn Turkey

TURKEY: Kurdish activists urged Turkey Thursday to stop military operations against separatist rebels and warned they may consider boycotting June elections.The warning came in the wake of renewed clashes between Kurdish militants and the army and a deadly attack on an election convoy of Turkey's ruling Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP), which officials blamed on rebels.

Meeting in Diyarbakir, the main city of the Kurdish-majority southeast, an umbrella Kurdish organisation condemned military operations against the rebels and the detention of activists, dismissing AKP pledges of reconciliation as "deception." AFP