Sunday, 1 July, 2007 , 03:27 AFP — Northern Iraq's relatively stable Kurdish region is trying to attract oil prospectors and investors instead of insurgents in an ambitious bid to rival commercial hotspots like Dubai.

Saturday, 30 June, 2007 , 17:13 AFP — Three Turkish soldiers died Saturday in a landmine explosion in the east of the country, security sources said, the day after a Kurdish rebel was killed by army troops.

Friday, 29 June, 2007 , 12:28 AFP — Turkey has drawn up plans for an eventual incursion into neighbouring northern Iraq to pursue Turkish Kurd rebels taking refuge there, Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said Friday.

Friday, 29 June, 2007 , 07:38 AFP — Prominent Turkish Kurd politician Orhan Dogan died Friday in hospital in the eastern city of Van after suffering a heart attack at the weekend, doctors said.

Wednesday, 27 June, 2007 , 16:59 AFP — Eight Kurdish rebels were killed Wednesday in a major security sweep in Turkey's restive southeast, local security sources said.

Wednesday, 27 June, 2007 , 10:07 AFP — The head of the Turkish armed forces insisted Wednesday on the need for a military incursion into northern Iraq to hunt down Turkish Kurd rebels based there, but said he needed the government's green light to do so.

Sunday, 24 June, 2007 , 16:02 AFP — An Iraqi court on Sunday condemned "Chemical Ali," the most notorious of Saddam Hussein's former henchmen, to death by hanging for genocide over the systematic slaughter of ethnic Kurds in 1988.

Sunday, 24 June, 2007 , 15:16 AFP — Kurds flocked into the streets in northern Iraq on Sunday, cheering, honking horns, waving banners and dancing after three of Saddam Hussein's former cohorts were sentenced to death for the mass killing of their people two decades ago.

Sunday, 24 June, 2007 , 13:52 AFP — A separatist Kurdish rebel and a civilian were killed in a botched suicide attack in eastern Turkey while fighting elsewhere left five rebels and a government militia member dead, local security sources and officials said Sunday.

Sunday, 24 June, 2007 , 12:18 AFP — Turkey wants full EU membership and will not settle with just joining a Mediterranean partnership, Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said in an interview published Sunday in a Greek newspaper.