11.   The government has suggested that poverty is the driving force behind the Kurdish rebellion.

12.   The other reason, he said, was the Kurdish rebellion in eastern Turkey.

13.   The Turkish army has been battling a bloody Kurdish rebellion in its eastern provinces for the past decade.

14.   Today they hold similar, hardline views on foreign policy issues and on the Kurdish rebellion.

15.   Zameni, a resident of Madrid, told police he believed he was carrying medicine for victims of the Kurdish rebellion in southeastern Turkey.

16.   He rejected any comparison between the Chechen crisis and the ongoing campaign by the Turkish government to crush the Kurdish rebellion in southeastern Turkey.

17.   Iraq on Monday accused Turkey of blatant hypocrisy by feeling free to crush its own Kurdish rebellion while criticizing the Iraqi offensive into its Kurdish areas.

18.   Ankara also accuses Syria of supporting a Kurdish rebellion, fighting for an independent state in southeastern Turkey.

19.   Denmark is pushing for a permanent OSCE representative in Turkey to monitor the human rights situation including the Kurdish rebellion, the Danish newspaper Berlingdske Tidende reported Friday.

20.   Turkey has come under increasing international criticism for its crackdown on the Kurdish rebellion, and the court hearing has been attended by several foreign human rights campaigners.