Saturday, 20 May, 2006 , 11:31 AFP — Hoshyar Zebari, who stays on as foreign minister in Iraq's new government, is a Kurdish party stalwart well-versed in Western ways.
Wednesday, 17 May, 2006 , 18:48 AFP — An official in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish regional government accused Turkish troops of shelling a village close to the common border Wednesday without causing casualties.
Wednesday, 17 May, 2006 , 15:45 AFP — Greek President Carolos Papoulia warned Turkey on Wednesday that it must respect human rights, notably those of the Kurds, if it wants closer ties with the European Union.
Wednesday, 17 May, 2006 , 11:16 AFP — An X-ray of Kamil Abdel Qader's lungs show a lower third that is entirely scarred -- lasting damage from the poisonous gas that rained down on his Iraqi Kurdish town of Halabja in 1988.
Monday, 15 May, 2006 , 17:03 AFP — The first independent non-commercial Kurdish television station said it had started broadcasting to the Middle East via satellite from an undisclosed location near Stockholm on Monday.
Sunday, 14 May, 2006 , 10:46 AFP — Four children were killed in eastern Turkey over the weekend by a bomb blast blamed on Kurdish rebels, the Anatolia news agency reported Sunday.
Saturday, 13 May, 2006 , 17:03 AFP — Five prisoners who escaped from a high-security prison in northern Iraq jointly run with the US-led coalition have been recaptured by Kurdish forces, a Kurdish security official told AFP.
Saturday, 13 May, 2006 , 14:43 AFP — A bomb explosion killed three children and badly wounded another in eastern Turkey Saturday, authorities said, accusing Kurdish rebels of responsibility.
Saturday, 13 May, 2006 , 10:11 AFP — The jailed Kurdish separatist leader Abdullah Ocalan threatened to "intensify" the armed struggle of his Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) in Turkey, the pro-PKK Firsat news agency reported Saturday.
Saturday, 13 May, 2006 , 09:45 AFP — Thousands of Kurdish refugees of the 1980s Iran-Iraq war want UN recognition of their status and to return to the Iranian town from which they were driven, one of their representatives said Saturday.
