Mon Mar 13, 2006 8:43 AM ET
By Ross Colvin and Mariam Karouny

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's president pressed political parties on Monday to accelerate efforts to form a broad government to arrest a slide into civil war after bomb blasts in a Baghdad Shi'ite slum killed 52 people.

By Charles Krauthammer
Friday, March 10, 2006; A19

Lost amid the news of all the bloodletting in Iraq is an important political development: The Kurds have switched sides. In the first parliament after the first set of elections, they allied themselves with the Shiite slate to produce the current Shiite-dominated government led by Ibrahim al-Jafari.

13 March 2006

BRUSSELS — A report from the Belgian ambassador in Turkey has poured cold water on suspicions that the death of the parents of Kurdish activist Derwish Ferho was the work of a death squad.

  03 Mar 2006 13:24:18 GMT
TUNCELI, Turkey, March 3 (Reuters) - A Turkish court heard charges on Friday that nine journalists and human rights workers, including a reporter for Reuters, had given help to Kurdish rebel fighters.

10:50 ET 20 February 2006 Monday / Ankara -Turkey's media watchdog has announced that broadcasts in the Kurdish language may commence in March on private radio and television stations.

Allowing broadcasts in languages other than Turkish was one of the requirements set by the European Union.

  Tucson, Arizona | Published: 02.20.2006

BAGHDAD Iraqi political parties have run into major obstacles in talks on a new national unity government, officials said Sunday, raising the possibility of a major delay that could set back U.S. hopes for a significant reduction in troop levels this year.

Posted on Wed, Feb. 15, 2006 By Borzou Daragahi and Raheem SalmanLOS ANGELES TIMESBAGHDAD, Iraq - Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari, named his Shiite Muslim coalition's candidate to continue leading the country for the next four years, outlined plans Tuesday to build a broad-based government to tackle the country's woeful security conditions.

SEATTLE, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- An Iraqi Kurd suspected of helping al-Qaida while living in Seattle has been ordered deported for lying on his political asylum application.

 - 2006 February 13

At least 11 people have been hurt in Turkey in an explosion in front of a supermarket in the city of Istanbul.

Istanbul's Governor Muammer Guler said the blast was apparently caused by a bomb left outside the shop. A Kurdish militant group has claimed responsibility for planting the device in the Bahcelievler suburb, the Kurdish news agency Firat reports.