Last group of Iranian Kurd refugees start relocation from endangered Iraq camp
10 November 2005 - Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees
GENEVA, November 10 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency said Thursday it has started rehousing the last 2,000 Iranian Kurd refugees remaining in a decades-old camp in Iraq, which has been badly affected by the security situation since the fall of the Saddam Hussein regime in April 2003.
Kurdish protester set himself on fire
11/9/2005 Cyprus News Agency Nicosia, (CNA) -- "I cannot stand this attitude towards our people. I cannot tolerate Turkish barbarity anymore. This is the only way to express myself," a young Kurd said before he set himself on fire during a demonstration outside the French Embassy in Nicosia today.
Turkey's Kurds set up new party
ANKARA, Nov 9 (AFP) - 16h02 - Leading Kurdish activists set up a new political party in Turkey on Wednesday, pledging to work to resolve the Kurdish conflict through peaceful means.
Turkey hails efforts with US against Kurdish rebels in Iraq
ANKARA, Nov 1 (AFP) - 12h59 - Turkey and the United States have entered a "new era" in combatting Turkish Kurd rebels holed up in the mountains of neighbouring northern Iraq, Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said Tuesday.
Kurdish rebel attack on military post leaves two dead: report
ISTANBUL, Oct 29 (AFP) - 10h31 - A Turkish army reservist and a Kurdish rebel were killed late Friday in a rocket attack by rebel forces against a military post in the Kurdish majority region of southeast Turkey, the Anatolia news agency reported Saturday.
As others see us
Guardian- Saturday October 29, 2005
Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk faces trial next month for referring to his country's massacre of Armenians. He argues that the great European writers have revealed a continent in constant flux, in which modern Turkey has earned its place Orhan Pamuk
3 Jurists, 3 Faces of Iraq Converge in Hussein Trial
Thu Octobter 27 2005 - By Borzou Daragahi and Richard Boudreaux Times Staff Writers
BAGHDAD — They are three lawyers, Shiite, Sunni Arab and Kurd, one a poor city kid, another raised on a farm, the third the scion of wealthy landlords.
Talabani suggests 'general amnesty' for PKK
ANKARA, Oct 24 (AFP) - 11h39 - Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, in an interview published here Monday, suggested a "general amnesty" by Ankara for Turkey's Kurdish PKK rebels to end fighting in southwest Turkey.
Arab League chief in landmark Kurdish visit
ARBIL, Iraq, Oct 23 (AFP) - 16h28 - Arab League chief Amr Mussa called for a new Iraq Sunday as he addressed the Kurdish parliament during a landmark visit aimed at drumming up support for a national reconciliation conference.
After Sistani, Arab League chief Mussa woos Iraq's Kurds
ARBIL, Iraq, Oct 22 (AFP) - 18h40 - Arab League Secretary General Amr Mussa flew Saturday to the Kurdish city of Arbil in northern Iraq for an historic visit to the autonomous region, saying he had always been close to Kurds.
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