Sunday, 13 May, 2007 , 11:24 AFP — A suicide car bomb attack on Sunday against a meeting of mainly Kurdish officials in northern Iraq left 32 people dead and wounded 115, Kurdish regional health minister Zirian Abdel Rahman said.

Sunday, 13 May, 2007 , 10:31 AFP — A suicide car bomb hit a compound housing the local headquarters of two Kurdish political parties in northern Iraq on Sunday, killing at least 10 people and wounding 60, police said.

Sunday, 13 May, 2007 , 10:08 AFP — A suicide car bomb attack in northern Iraq Sunday on a compound housing a police post and the local headquarters of two Kurdish political parties killed 10 people and injured 60, police said.

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.