Saturday, 12 October, 2013 , 09:42 AFP — Tight security measures imposed after a rare deadly attack in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region have curbed tourism ahead of the year's biggest Muslim holiday, industry officials and business owners say.
Friday, 11 October, 2013 , 14:53 AFP — Turkish drugs police seized 346 kilos (762 pounds) of heroin in Istanbul as part of a joint operation with the National Intelligence Organisation, an official source said Friday.
Thursday, 10 October, 2013 , 16:28 AFP — Turkey's parliament on Thursday extended for one year a mandate that would allow Ankara to order military strikes against Kurdish rebels holed up in neighbouring northern Iraq.
Sunday, 6 October, 2013 , 21:07 AFP — An Al-Qaeda front group said it carried out an attack on security forces in Iraq's usually-quiet autonomous Kurdish region, in a statement posted on the Honein jihadist forum on Sunday.
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Wednesday, 2 October, 2013 , 11:55 AFP — Iraqi President Jalal Talabani's party finished third behind an opposition movement in the autonomous Kurdish region's parliamentary polls, shaking a decades-long duopoly on power, according to final results released Wednesday.
Tuesday, 1 October, 2013 , 16:56 AFP — European judges on Tuesday cleared 19 Kurds who had been fined in Turkey for addressing their jailed Kurdish rebel leader as "Mr Ocalan".
Tuesday, 1 October, 2013 , 14:43 AFP — Turkey's prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has unveiled sweeping reforms in a bid to repair his image, bruised by mass protests and a stalled peace process with Kurdish rebels, analysts said Tuesday.
Monday, 30 September, 2013 , 19:48 AFP — Turkey's prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday announced key political reforms, including lifting a ban on Islamic headscarves and strengthening Kurdish rights.
Monday, 30 September, 2013 , 14:22 AFP — Turkey on Monday moved to scrap restrictions on the use of the minority Kurdish language among democratic reforms designed to revive the stalled peace process with the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
