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.

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.