ANKARA, June 7 (AFP) - 3h46 - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan meets US President George W. Bush at the White House on Wednesday in a fence-mending visit during which he is expected to make a new push for US action against Turkish Kurd rebels based in northern Iraq.

DAMASCUS, June 6 (AFP) - 18h46 - Representatives of banned Kurdish parties met with Arab tribal chiefs in northeastern Syria Monday in a bid to calm sectarian tensions following bloody clashes over the weekend, a Kurdish leader said.

Associated Pres - 4 June 2005 — Jalal Talabani, the first Kurdish President of Iraq smiles beside Massoud Barzani, president of the Kurdish region

BAGHDAD, June 4 (AFP) - 18h14 - Iraqi President Jalal Talabani called Saturday on Kurdish regional deputies to set a democratic example for the war-torn nation, while hundreds of suspected insurgents were rounded up in Baghdad.

BAGHDAD, June 5 (AFP) - 2h45 - Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has called on Kurdish regional deputies to set a democratic example for the war-torn nation, while more suspected insurgents were rounded up in Baghdad.

BAGHDAD, June 4 (AFP) - 14h56 - Iraq's Kurdish regional parliament held its first session on Saturday with the Iraqi president urging the Kurds to set an example of unity to the nation torn by sectarian strife.

ANKARA, June 3 (AFP) - 11h44 - Jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan does not want to be retried in Turkey, where he believes he cannot be judged fairly, one of his attorneys told AFP Friday.

QAMISHLI, Syria, June 2 (AFP) - 23h29 - Syria's official press Thursday named five men whom the authorities have blamed for the murder of a Kurdish Muslim religious leader, but Kurdish groups and the victim's family were sceptical.

LIJWA, Iraq, June 2 (AFP) - 19h58 - On the sidelines of a Kurdish congress in this northeastern Iraqi village, young Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants from the region and Europe are bound together by the dream of an independent state.

BEIRUT, June 1 (AFP) - 15h05 - A Kurdish Muslim cleric in Syria who was reported missing last month has died after being tortured, Kurdish party officials said Wednesday, a charge disputed by Damascus.