Thursday, 2 April, 2009 , 12:44 AFP — Iraq's oil minister told the South Korean ambassador on Thursday that an oil deal last year between Seoul and the Kurdish regional government is illegal.

Thursday, 2 April, 2009 , 09:19 AFP — A Turkish court charged two people Thursday on charges of involvement in alleged summary killings of Kurds in the 1990s, as investigators excavated a suspected bural site, a judicial source said.

Monday, 30 March, 2009 , 15:43 AFP — The state security court has imposed prison sentences on four Kurds for being members of a banned party, a Syrian human rights group said on Monday.

Monday, 30 March, 2009 , 10:10 AFP — Danish prosecutors met Turkish officials last week in a probe into a Denmark-based Kurdish television channel that Ankara wants banned, the Danish ambassador said Monday.

Sunday, 29 March, 2009 , 17:17 AFP — A new prison has been inaugurated in northern Iraq capable of holding 3,000 detainees, the American military said in a statement on Sunday.

Sunday, 29 March, 2009 , 13:11 AFP — Turkish Kurd rebels in northern Iraq slammed President Jalal Talabani on Sunday for giving an ultimatum during a visit by his Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul for them to lay down their arms.

Friday, 27 March, 2009 , 22:35 AFP — Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday denied that Turkey might consider an amnesty for Kurdish rebels fighting the government as part of a broader plan to end a 24-year insurgency.

Friday, 27 March, 2009 , 17:57 AFP — Spanish police have detained a suspected leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) the Anatolia news agency reported Friday, quoting Foreign Minister Ali Babacan.

Thursday, 26 March, 2009 , 16:29 AFP — Six members of Turkey's ruling party were injured here Thursday in an attack by supporters of the country's main Kurdish party ahead of local elections at the weekend, officials said.

Wednesday, 25 March, 2009 , 11:26 AFP — The premier of Iraq's Kurdish regional government on Wednesday backed a call by the country's president for Turkish Kurdish rebels holed up in the region to lay down their arms.