ANKARA, Nov 18 (AFP) - Iraqi Kurds will have no choice but to proclaim independence in the event of civil war in Iraq, Massud Barzani, president of northern Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish zone, said Friday.
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, Nov 17 (AFP) - Thousands of people gathered in Yuksekova town in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast Thursday to bury three people killed in riots that have strained the region and rattled the Ankara government.
ANKARA, Nov 16 (AFP) - One person was killed and 15 injured in the mainly Kurdish province of Hakkari in southeastern Turkey on Wednesday in flaring violence between Kurdish protestors and the security forces, Anatolia news agency reported.
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, Nov 13 (AFP) - 12h07 - More than 10,000 people gathered Sunday in the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir to call for a peaceful solution to the region's Kurdish rebellion.
TEHRAN, Nov 12 (AFP) - 15h07 - Iranian border guards killed one Kurdish rebel and arrested another in clashes in the northwestern province of West Azarbayjan, the student agency ISNA reported Saturday.
SEMDINLI, Turkey, Nov 11 (AFP) - 17h49 - The Turkish government promised Friday to investigate a deadly bomb attack in this remote southeastern town that has sent tensions in the mainly Kurdish region soaring amid claims security forces may have been involved.
By Gavin Jones -November 12, 200
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said on Saturday that it may be possible to reach an agreement by the end of 2006 on the withdrawal of foreign troops from his country.
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.
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.
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.
