Wednesday, 23 November, 2005 , 16:25 AFP — The government removed from office Wednesday the governor of the mainly Kurdish province of Hakkari after deadly riots there sparked calls for his resignation, the Anatolia news agency reported.

Monday, 4 July, 2005 , 13:11 AFP — Iranian president-elect Mahmood Ahmadinejad was directly involved in plotting the 1989 assassination of a Kurdish rebel leader in Vienna, an official of the banned Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran charged Monday.