Wednesday, 18 January, 2006 , 08:32 AFP — Health officials in northern Iraq sent samples to Jordan for testing for avian flu on Wednesday following the death of a 14-year-old girl.

Tuesday, 17 January, 2006 , 13:12 AFP — Lawyers representing jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan protested Tuesday that they were unable to meet their client after authorities increased his isolation on a prison island in northwestern Turkey.

Monday, 16 January, 2006 , 10:53 AFP — Turkish police seized 23 kilos (50 pounds) of plastic explosive and arrested three presumed members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in the town of Van in eastern Turkey, the Anatolia news agency reported Monday.

Friday, 13 January, 2006 , 12:21 AFP — France and Britain are working together to send volunteer Iraqi Kurd refugees back to their region in the north of the strife-torn country, French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said on Friday.

Wednesday, 11 January, 2006 , 15:25 AFP — Iraqi Kurdish authorities have banned local trading in live chickens because of a lethal form of bird flu that has infected 15 people across the border in Turkey, a senior official said Wednesday.

Monday, 9 January, 2006 , 14:03 AFP — The Istanbul police have foiled planned bomb attacks in the city, detaining seven suspected Kurdish militants and seizing 12 kilograms (27 pounds) of explosives, the local police chief said Monday.

Saturday, 7 January, 2006 , 14:40 AFP — Iraq's outgoing President Jalal Talabani has been re-selected to run for the job, the two largest Kurdish parties announced Saturday.

Friday, 6 January, 2006 , 17:44 AFP — The Dutch national prosecutor has appealed against a businessman's war crimes conviction for supplying chemicals used in gas attacks on Kurdish villages in Iraq in the 1980s, a judicial official said Friday.

Monday, 2 January, 2006 , 13:19 AFP — Thousands of ethnic Kurds in Iran, headed by a prominent former MP, have created a movement aimed at obtaining rights they say have been "neglected" by the Islamic Republic during the past 26 years.

Friday, 30 December, 2005 , 11:39 AFP — Fifty-six mayors from Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast have appealed to the Danish government to resist Ankara's efforts to have a Denmark-based Kurdish TV station banned for alleged links to armed Kurdish rebels.