Wednesday, 29 July, 2009 , 14:04 AFP —

Wednesday, 29 July, 2009 , 14:00 AFP —

Wednesday, 29 July, 2009 , 11:48 AFP — Turkey will introduce a "courageous" reform package aimed at boosting the rights of its disenchanted Kurdish community and ending a 25-year bloody insurgency, Interior Minister Besir Atalay said Wednesday.

Wednesday, 29 July, 2009 , 10:58 AFP — US Defence Secretary Robert Gates on Wednesday urged feuding Iraqi Arab and Kurdish leaders to settle their differences peacefully or risk plunging the country back into violence.

Wednesday, 29 July, 2009 , 07:44 AFP — US Defence Secretary Robert Gates met Iraqi Kurdish president Massud Barzani Wednesday as he urged Iraq's communities to heal their political rifts before US forces withdraw at the end of 2011.

Tuesday, 28 July, 2009 , 12:01 AFP — Turkey on Tuesday urged Iraq and the United States for "concrete results" on the ground in efforts to curb separatist Kurdish rebels taking refuge in northern Iraq.

Tuesday, 28 July, 2009 , 09:09 AFP — Leading Kurdish activist Leyla Zana was sentenced to 15 months in prison on Tuesday for remarks upholding Kurdish rebels fighting the Turkish government, judicial sources said.

Tuesday, 28 July, 2009 , 08:57 AFP — Senior officials from Iraq, Turkey and the United States met Tuesday to discuss ways to deal with Kurdish rebels holed up in northern Iraq.

Tuesday, 28 July, 2009 , 08:42 AFP — A suspected Kurdish militant was killed and two police officers wounded in a shootout in eastern Turkey late Monday, a local official told Anatolia news agency.

Monday, 27 July, 2009 , 19:10 AFP — The Iraqi Kurdish opposition accused the party of regional president Massud Barzani on Monday of vote rigging in weekend elections, insisting it had made a bigger breakthrough than preliminary results showed.