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.

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.

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.

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

 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.

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.

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.

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.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Silver-haired and patient, the judge presiding over Saddam Hussein's trial is a longtime Kurdish lawyer and judge who has worked under both Saddam's regime and under his own people's self-rule.

BAGHDAD, Oct 22 (AFP) - 21h28 - Arab League chief Amr Mussa made two landmark visits in Iraq Saturday to raise support for a proposed national reconciliation conference, while the toll of US deaths grew to nearly 2,000.