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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tuesday, 9 May, 2006 , 03:59 AFP — A court here on Friday resumed hearing testimony from two military men and a government-paid Kurdish informer facing possible life sentences over a deadly bomb attack allegedly aimed at creating unrest in the mainly Kurdish southeast.
Tuesday, 9 May, 2006 , 03:59 AFP — Authorities in northern Kurdistan warned rebels from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) against waging war against Turkey or Iran from Iraqi territory.
Tuesday, 9 May, 2006 , 03:59 AFP — A top Iraqi Kurdish official on Friday warned rebels from the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) against waging a war on Turkey or Iran from Iraqi territory.