Kurdish mayors on trial in Turkey
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Fifty-six Kurdish mayors go on trial in Turkey to face charges of aiding a terrorist organisation.
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The Iraqi government will begin war crimes trials of a dozen former regime officials next week, interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi said Tuesday.
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Indonesian Muslim cleric Abu Bakar  Bashir went on trial on Thursday accused of leading an al  Qaeda-linked militant network and for using his "religious  charisma" to incite others to carry out bomb attacks.
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The Indonesian cleric accused of heading the al Qaida-linked terror group behind the 2002 Bali bombings proclaimed his innocence as he went on trial today, while prosecutors alleged he spurred followers in &quot;the waging of war&quot; against America and its allies
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Two men who converted to Christianity went on trial Thursday for allegedly insulting "Turkishness" and inciting religious hatred against Islam, the Anatolia news agency reported.
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ANKARA, Turkey  -- Turkish troops have shelled suspected Kurdish rebel positions in Iraq, a government official said Wednesday, as military and civilian leaders gathered to discuss the scope and duration of a cross-border incursion.
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A writer went on trial Thursday on charges of insulting the founder of modern Turkey in a biography about the revered late leader's wife, amid growing calls from the European Union to change repressive laws curbing freedom of expression.
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Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir went on  trial in Indonesia on Thursday on charges of leading Jemaah  Islamiah, a militant network seen as the Southeast Asian arm of  al Qaeda.
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Abu Bakar Ba'asyir goes on trial in connection with the 2002 Bali bombings and other attacks.
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The trial of Saddam Hussein and six   former commanders on charges of launching a genocidal campaign   against Iraq's ethnic Kurds in the late 1980s resumed in a   Baghdad courtroom on Tuesday.
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Eighteen people go on trial in Istanbul over the murder of  Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink.
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Massoud Barzani, leader of the Kurdish area of Iraq, says Kurds will defend themselves in the event of a Turkish raid.
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Turkish author Ipek Calislar goes on trial accused of insulting Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
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Former Turkish PM Mesut Yilmaz appears in court to face corruption charges over a banking scandal.
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Kurdish politicians seek to distance themselves from the PKK but tensions still remain high, the BBC's Sarah Rainsford reports.
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Kurdish authorities in northern Iraq said Wednesday that their forces would defend civilians if they were caught up in any fighting between Turkish troops and Kurdish rebels from the outlawed PKK in the area.
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A politician was charged Friday with inciting hatred and threatening public safety after suggesting that fellow Kurds would rise against the state and fight if Turkey ever attacked their Kurdish brethren in neighboring Iraq.