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.

Monday, 7 May, 2007 , 15:13 AFP — Four Kurdish militants, including one woman, were sentenced Monday to life in jail for a 1999 petrol bomb attack on an Istanbul shopping mall that killed 13 people, Anatolia news agency reported.

Wednesday, 2 May, 2007 , 09:41 AFP — Iraqi Oil Minister Hussein Shahristani warned on Wednesday that any oil contracts signed by northern Iraq's Kurdish regional government before a new oil law is passed would be considered invalid.

Tuesday, 1 May, 2007 , 02:39 AFP — A movie set against the backdrop of the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq scooped two awards for Kurdish film maker Shawkat Amin Korki at the Singapore International Film Festival.