Thursday, 9 February, 2006 , 14:44 AFP — A radical Kurdish group which has been blamed for a series of bomb attacks in Turkey has claimed responsibility for a blast in Istanbul Thursday which injured 14 people, a pro-Kurdish news agency said.

Thursday, 9 February, 2006 , 10:40 AFP — Jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan is in good shape and reports that he has suffered a heart attack in prison are not true, Turkish officials said Thursday.

Wednesday, 8 February, 2006 , 18:49 AFP — Jailed Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan is in serious condition after suffering a heart attack, his lawyers told the Italian news agency ANSA Wednesday.

Wednesday, 8 February, 2006 , 14:12 AFP — With their major city under threat, Kurdish officials are working hard to head off a bird flu epidemic, resorting to both Europe and the black market to buy the life-saving medicines.

Monday, 6 February, 2006 , 18:19 AFP — A second Iraqi Kurd was confirmed Monday to have died from the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain as international teams scrambled to combat the spread of the virus in the country's north.

Monday, 6 February, 2006 , 14:47 AFP — The uncle of an Iraqi Kurdish teenager who died of bird flu has also died of the deadly H5N1 strain, according to laboratory tests in Cairo, a source in the Kurdish health ministry said.

Monday, 6 February, 2006 , 14:36 AFP — The uncle of an Iraqi Kurdish teenager who died of bird flu has now also died of the deadly H5N1 strain, according to laboratory tests in Cairo, a source in the Kurdish health ministry said.

Sunday, 5 February, 2006 , 11:45 AFP — An eight-member team of the World Health Organisation arrived Sunday in Iraqi Kurdistan to help fight off the spread of bird flu which has claimed its first victim in the region, a senior official said.

Thursday, 2 February, 2006 , 11:40 AFP — In the picturesque town of Dukan, next to a beautiful alpine lake in Iraq's Kurdish region, checkpoints blocking the roads mark the beginning of a buffer zone to halt the spread of the deadly bird flu.

Tuesday, 31 January, 2006 , 18:13 AFP — Iraq's Kurdistan region, which has confirmed its first human death from bird flu, is facing an acute shortage of the vital drug to fight the disease, a medical official said Tuesday.