Saturday, 12 May, 2007 , 14:41 AFP — Several thousand Kurds protested in the French city of Strasbourg on Saturday against the alleged poisoning of Abdullah Ocalan by the Turkish authorities and demanded that the jailed Kurdish leader be examined by independent doctors.

Saturday, 12 May, 2007 , 11:23 AFP — Turkey's main Kurdish party called on the president Saturday to veto a controversial bill widely seen as a bid to hinder Kurdish politicians seeking parliamentary seats in the July 22 elections.

Thursday, 10 May, 2007 , 15:36 AFP — A Turkish publisher who had been fined for publishing a biography of Kurdish filmmaker Yilmaz Guney won his case against Turkey at the European Court of Human Rights Thursday.

Thursday, 10 May, 2007 , 10:20 AFP — Turkish legislators on Thursday approved a constitutional amendment widely seen as an effort to make it more difficult for Kurdish politicians from non-mainstream political parties to enter parliament in the July 22 elections.

Thursday, 10 May, 2007 , 08:54 AFP — Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region has sent 1,000 peshmerga troops to its border with Iran to prevent attacks by the Islamist insurgent group Ansar al-Islam, a spokesman said on Thursday.

Wednesday, 9 May, 2007 , 15:31 AFP — Turkey's main Kurdish party will pitch independent candidates in general elections on July 22 in a bid to bypass the high threshhold for parliamentary representation, its chairman said Wednesday.

Wednesday, 9 May, 2007 , 13:00 AFP — A powerful bomb exploded Wednesday in Iraq's normally peaceful Kurdish capital of Arbil, killing at least 14 in a rare attack in a region usually sheltered from the country's turmoil.

Wednesday, 9 May, 2007 , 07:11 AFP — A truck bomb killed 19 people and wounded 70 Wednesday in front of the interior ministry in Arbil, the capital of Iraq's normally calm Kurdish autonomous region, the region's health minister said.

Wednesday, 9 May, 2007 , 05:33 AFP — A truck bomb exploded Wednesday, killing seven people in front of the interior ministry in Arbil, the capital of Iraq's normally calm Kurdish autonomous region, police said.

Tuesday, 8 May, 2007 , 16:43 AFP — Iraqi Kurd leader Massud Barzani on Monday denied that he threatened to intervene in Turkey over the Kurdish minority question, while warning Ankara he would not tolerate any threats from them.