Tuesday, 10 November, 2009 , 18:12 AFP — Turkey Tuesday said improving democratic rights was key to its plan to end a 25-year Kurdish insurgency, as the government tried to win over opponents who accuse it of giving into "terrorists" and undermining national unity.

Tuesday, 10 November, 2009 , 16:20 AFP — Turkey's parliament met Tuesday to hear the government unveil a plan to end a deadly 25-year Kurdish insurgency, a project the opposition views as a threat to the country's unity.

Tuesday, 10 November, 2009 , 13:54 AFP — An oil dispute between Iraqi Kurdistan and the central government in Baghdad is unlikely to be resolved by the elections on January 21, 2010, the autonomous region's leader said Tuesday.

Tuesday, 10 November, 2009 , 11:54 AFP — The Turkish government will on Tuesday set out to lawmakers its vision on ending a deadly 25-year Kurdish insurgency -- a project that opposition parties say amounts to giving in to "terrorists" and undermining the country's unity.

Tuesday, 10 November, 2009 , 10:30 AFP — A Syrian court of exception has sentenced four Kurds to six-year prison terms for belonging to a banned political party, a human rights watchdog said on Tuesday.

Tuesday, 10 November, 2009 , 08:58 AFP — Minorities, including Christians, in northern Iraq are the collateral victims of a conflict between Arabs and Kurds over who controls the country's disputed provinces, Human Rights Watch warned Tuesday.

Thursday, 5 November, 2009 , 08:25 AFP — Fifteen years after they were driven out by bloodshed, thousands of Kurdish refugees living in a camp in northern Iraq dream of coming back to Turkey, but say they will not move unless Ankara grants extensive political and cultural rights to Kurds.

Wednesday, 4 November, 2009 , 02:02 AFP — Holed up in the rugged mountains of northern Iraq, Kurdish rebels are determined to fight on, viewing Turkey's pledges to broaden Kurdish freedoms with mistrust.

Monday, 2 November, 2009 , 18:36 AFP — The Turkish government said Monday it would set out a reform project next week to improve the rights of the country's Kurdish minority.

Monday, 2 November, 2009 , 09:17 AFP — US Vice President Joe Biden and president Massud Barzani of Iraqi Kurdistan have pressed the need for a key election law to be passed in Baghdad, Kurdish authorities said on Monday.