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Two hurt by bombs in Iranian Kurd city


Tuesday, 9 May, 2006 , 03:59 AFP Two small bombs exploded in government offices in the western Iranian city of Kermanshah on Monday, wounding two people, the student news agency ISNA reported.

Seven hurt by bombs in Iranian Kurd city


Tuesday, 9 May, 2006 , 03:59 AFP Two small bombs exploded in government offices in the western Iranian city of Kermanshah on Monday, wounding seven people, official media reported.

Erdogan calls on Kurds to condemn PKK violence


Tuesday, 9 May, 2006 , 03:59 AFP Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday called on the Kurds of in the southeast of the country to condemn violence committed by the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

Iraq's Kurdish MPs vote to unify provincial government


Tuesday, 9 May, 2006 , 03:59 AFP Kurdish lawmakers on Sunday voted for a single administration to run their autonomous region of Kurdistan in northern Iraq, ending the previous system of two separate local governments.

EU deputy urges Turkey's Kurds to give up violence


Tuesday, 9 May, 2006 , 03:59 AFP A European Parliament delegate to Turkey urged separatist Kurds in the country to renounce violence, on a visit Saturday to the country's troubled southeastern region.

Iraqi Kurdish MPs vote for single Iraqi Kurdistan government


Tuesday, 9 May, 2006 , 03:59 AFP Kurdish lawmakers in Iraq's northern Kurdistan on Sunday voted for a single administration to run their autonomous region, ending the previous system of two separate local governments.

Iraqi Kurdish MPs vote to unify provincial government


Tuesday, 9 May, 2006 , 03:59 AFP Kurdish lawmakers in Iraq's northern Kurdistan on Sunday voted for a single administration to run their autonomous region, ending the previous system of two separate local governments.

Kurdish rebels promise hit-and-run attacks on Iran


Tuesday, 9 May, 2006 , 03:59 AFP A top Kurdish guerilla on Saturday threatened to launch hit-and-run attacks on Iran, saying the Shiite country planned to bomb his group's positions inside Iraq to gain Turkey's support against the US.

Bomb attack against Turkish freight train, no casualties


Tuesday, 9 May, 2006 , 03:59 AFP A bomb exploded near a railway line in the mainly Kurdish east of Turkey as a freight train was passing by but there were no casualties, the state-run railway company said Friday.

Court rejects Kurdish rebel leader's retrial


Tuesday, 9 May, 2006 , 03:59 AFP A Turkish court on Friday rejected a petition by jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan to be retried, despite a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) that his 1999 trial was unfair, the Anatolia news agency reported.