From BBC NEWS:Tuesday, 12 July, 2005
By William J. Kole, Associated Press
VIENNA, Austria — Austrian authorities have classified documents suggesting that Iran's president-elect may have played a key role in the 1989 execution-style slayings of an Iranian Kurdish leader and two associates in Vienna, a newspaper reported Saturday.
BAGHDAD, June 26 (AFP) - 18h42 - The Iraqi court charged with trying ousted leader Saddam Hussein on Sunday released footage of six of his lieutenants being interrogated about alleged crimes against Kurds.
BAQUBA, Iraq, June 25 (AFP) - 18h09 - The governor of a Kurdish province in northern Iraq offered Saturday to send Kurdish militiamen to help restore security in neighbouring areas ravaged by the persistent Sunni Arab insurgency.
ANKARA, June 25 (AFP) - 13h07 - Iraqi President Jalal Talabani dismissed as "unrealistic" aspirations by Iraqi Kurds for independence in their northern enclave and urged Turkey to set aside its doubts and give backing to Kurds in the war-torn country.
23/06/2005 Deutsche Welle
Turkey’s best-selling novelist Orhan Pamuk has been awarded the German Book Trade’s Peace Prize, reflecting a growing awareness that many of the issues preoccupying Turkey these days have a profound global resonance.
ISTANBUL, June 22 (AFP) - 17h05 - A group of 300 Kurdish intellectuals urged Ankara Wednesday to grant amnesty to Kurdish rebels fighting the army in Turkey's southeast region in a bid to stop increasing bloodshed in the region.
BAGHDAD, June 20 (AFP) - 15h33 - Iraq's Kurdish regional president Massoud Barzani said on Monday that the entire country should be called the Federal Republic of Iraq and that name inscribed in a constitution now under discussion.
BAGHDAD, June 20 (AFP) - 11h17 - The president of Iraqi Kudistan, Massoud Barzani, on Monday disputed a US press report that minority Iraqi Arabs and Turkomen had been been mistreated in northern provinces.
Compiled by Daily Star staff
Monday, June 20, 2005
Syrian Authorities have arrested 60 Kurds during a demonstration in northern Syria protesting the death of a prominent Kurdish cleric, and some of the detainees were tortured, two Kurdish parties claimed. The protest was held June 5 in the mainly Kurdish city of Qamishli, four days after the body of Kurdish Islamic scholar Mohammad Mashouk al-Khaznawi was found in a hospital morgue.
