Thursday, 29 December, 2005 , 19:20 AFP — Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and Shiite leader Abdel Aziz al-Hakim said Thursday that they agree on the need to enlarge the next government's cabinet to include representatives of other communities.

Thursday, 29 December, 2005 , 09:17 AFP — Privately owned Turkish television networks will be allowed to start broadcasting in the Kurdish language in January, a belated move two years after the government authorised the reform, the Turkish audiovisual watchdog RTUK said Thursday.

Monday, 26 December, 2005 , 14:50 AFP — Turkish police detained five people Monday on suspicion of plotting to assassinate the governor of the mainly Kurdish eastern province of Van on New Year's eve, local security officials said.

Monday, 26 December, 2005 , 14:32 AFP — The Kurdish alliance took the lead with over a third of the votes in Iraq's special elections involving expatriates, soldiers, hospitals and detainees, according to results announced Monday by the electoral commission.

Monday, 26 December, 2005 , 08:43 AFP — Turkish police have arrested a nephew of the jailed Kurdish separatist leader Abdullah Ocalan on suspicion of links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Anatolia news agency reported.

Friday, 23 December, 2005 , 17:16 AFP — A Dutch court on Friday sentenced former chemicals trader Frans van Anraat to 15 years in jail for aiding war crimes by selling chemicals the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein used for deadly gas attacks on Kurdish villages.

Friday, 23 December, 2005 , 16:02 AFP — A Dutch court on Friday sentenced former chemicals trader Frans van Anraat to 15 years in jail for aiding war crimes by selling chemicals the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein used for deadly gas attacks on Kurdish villages.

Friday, 23 December, 2005 , 14:42 AFP — A Dutch court on Friday sentenced former chemicals trader Frans van Anraat to 15 years in jail for aiding war crimes by selling chemicals the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein used for deadly gas attacks on Kurdish villages.

Friday, 23 December, 2005 , 14:02 AFP — A Dutch court on Friday ruled that Saddam Hussein committed genocide against Iraqi Kurds in the 1980s, but acquitted a Dutch chemicals trader of aiding the crime because he did not know the Iraqi regime's genocidal intentions.

Friday, 23 December, 2005 , 11:06 AFP — A Dutch court is set to issue its verdict Friday on a chemicals trader accused of aiding genocide by selling the former Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein the chemicals it used to gas a Kurdish village.