Saturday, 5 November, 2011 , 16:16 AFP — Iraqi Kurd leader Massud Barzani said Saturday he opposes Turkey's military campaign against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq as it will fail to permanently end the conflict.

Saturday, 5 November, 2011 , 13:56 AFP — More than one million people have visited the autonomous Kurdistan region in north Iraq -- a haven of relative stability -- in the past nine months, a tourism official said on Saturday.

Thursday, 3 November, 2011 , 14:27 AFP — A group of intellectuals and academics on Thursday protested the arrest of a prominent Turkish publisher and an academic over suspected links with Kurdish rebels.

Tuesday, 1 November, 2011 , 23:05 AFP — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta underlined Washington's commitment to maintaining strong security ties with Turkey in talks Tuesday with his Turkish counterpart, Ismet Yildiz, a US spokesman said.

Tuesday, 1 November, 2011 , 14:47 AFP — An Istanbul court on Tuesday jailed 44 people including a professor and a publisher on charges of links to Kurdish rebels, the state-run Anatolia news agency reported.

Tuesday, 1 November, 2011 , 14:27 AFP — Iraqi Kurd leader Massud Barzani will visit Turkey at the weekend, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday, just days after Ankara ended a major military operation against Kurdish rebels.

Tuesday, 1 November, 2011 , 13:57 AFP — There will not be American bases in north Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region after the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq by year's end, a top Kurdish official told AFP on Tuesday.

Sunday, 30 October, 2011 , 19:46 AFP — Two people were arrested after police intervened Sunday to keep pro-Turkish demonstrators and members of the Kurdish community apart after a demonstration in The Hague, a spokeswoman said.

Sunday, 30 October, 2011 , 15:49 AFP — French police fired tear gas to break up clashes that erupted between Turkish protesters and supports of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in central Paris on Sunday.

Sunday, 30 October, 2011 , 12:10 AFP — The Iraqi people's "unified resistance" forced the United States to pull its military out of their country, Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said Sunday.