Tuesday, 16 July, 2013 , 14:59 AFP — Four teenagers were wounded when a homemade bomb accidentally exploded in the main Kurdish-majority city of Diyarbakir in southeastern Turkey on Tuesday, a local security source said.

Saturday, 13 July, 2013 , 13:13 AFP — Turkey's highest court on Saturday allowed a Kurdish couple the right to name their daughter "Kurdistan", a word historically banned because it was considered seditious, local media said.

Thursday, 11 July, 2013 , 08:04 AFP — The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), engaged in a fragile peace process with the Turkish government after nearly three decades of conflict, has named a hardline party veteran as its new political leader, local media reported Thursday.

Thursday, 11 July, 2013 , 02:56 AFP — Kamiran Aziz Ali grimaces and leans forward, his hands behind his back, re-enacting the moment in January 1990 when Saddam Hussein's henchmen flung him into a jail cell in the "Red House".

Monday, 8 July, 2013 , 02:21 AFP — Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has reaffirmed his commitment to a full reconciliation with Turkey's estimated 15 million Kurds, but events of recent weeks suggest the peace process may already be unravelling.

Sunday, 7 July, 2013 , 17:12 AFP — The president of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, Massud Barzani, held landmark talks in Baghdad on Sunday with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on an array of disputes plaguing relations between the two sides.

Sunday, 7 July, 2013 , 14:31 AFP — The president of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, Massud Barzani, visited Baghdad on Sunday for the first time in years for landmark talks with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on an array of disputes.

Sunday, 7 July, 2013 , 12:07 AFP — The president of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, Massud Barzani, visited Baghdad on Sunday for the first time in years for talks with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on an array of disputes.

Wednesday, 3 July, 2013 , 23:10 AFP — The United States on Wednesday said it would raise with Iraqi Kurdish leaders a controversial decision to delay regional presidential elections by two years in a battle over whether leader Massud Barzani can run again.

Wednesday, 3 July, 2013 , 13:46 AFP — A Danish court on Wednesday revoked the licence of a Kurdish television channel for "glorifying terrorism" and inviting viewers to join the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a militant separatist group.