Monday, 2 July, 2012 , 11:31 AFP — An Istanbul court on Monday began hearing a high-profile trial on the alleged links between some 200 suspects and outlawed Kurdish rebels, Anatolia news agency reported.

Saturday, 30 June, 2012 , 14:21 AFP — Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan held talks with a prominent Kurdish lawmaker in a rare meeting Saturday to try and resolve a decades-old separatist conflict.

Friday, 29 June, 2012 , 15:50 AFP — Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region has crowned the first-ever Miss Kurdistan, though the beauty contest took place without bikini-clad women and with journalists and their cameras kept at bay.

Friday, 29 June, 2012 , 15:22 AFP — Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region has crowned the first-ever Miss Kurdistan, though the beauty contest took place without bikini-clad women and with journalists and their cameras kept at bay.

Wednesday, 27 June, 2012 , 09:25 AFP — Four Turkish soldiers were killed Wednesday in a clash with Kurdish rebels fighting for autonomy in the country's southeast, a local security source said.

Sunday, 24 June, 2012 , 11:49 AFP — Turkish warplanes have carried out strikes on suspected Kurdish militant targets in northern Iraq, the army said on Sunday.

Sunday, 24 June, 2012 , 11:07 AFP — Turkish warplanes have carried out strikes on suspected Kurdish militant targets in northern Iraq, the army said on Sunday.

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Saturday, 23 June, 2012 , 11:11 AFP — Iraqi Kurdistan's efforts to ramp up its oil production and export capabilities increase the viability of independence as an option for the region, which is in a months-long standoff with Baghdad.

Wednesday, 20 June, 2012 , 17:06 AFP — An Iraqi Kurdish editor of a magazine that advocates relations between the Kurdistan region and Israel has been missing for more than 10 days, a journalist and a media rights group said on Wednesday.