STRASBOURG, May 12 (AFP) - 14h13 - The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday upheld a ruling in favour of jailed Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan, saying that he had been unfairly tried by a Turkish court, and urged Ankara to retry him.
Ocalan was sentenced to death in a high-profile trial in 1999, but his sentence was commuted to a life sentence, which he is currently serving in the prison island of Imrali.

  

ANKARA, Nov 1 (AFP) - 12h59 - Turkey and the United States have entered a "new era" in combatting Turkish Kurd rebels holed up in the mountains of neighbouring northern Iraq, Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said Tuesday.


  


5 February 2008 | Ministry for Natural Resources

Erbil, Kurdistan Region -- The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has received an expert independent legal opinion that confirms the KRG’s constitutional authority to manage the Kurdistan Region’s oil and gas resources.


  


Tuesday, January 3, 2006

Bahaeddin Adab, the founder of the reformist Kurdish United Front, says the front would not pursue separatist goals

TEHRAN - 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.


  


Thursday, March 13, 2008 | By Gareth Jenkins

Recent reports quoting Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as announcing $12 billion in new investments in the predominantly Kurdish southeast of Turkey have been greeted with considerable skepticism inside the country.


  

ANKARA (AA) - Mehmet Elkatmis, the Chairman of the parliamentary human rights follow-up committee met Claudia Roth, the Chairwoman of German-Turkish parliamentary friendship group on Tuesday.

  


Monday, January 7, 2008 | The Associated Press

BAGHDAD: Iraq's Kurdish deputy prime minister warned Monday that failure to resolve the dispute over the oil-rich city of Kirkuk could result in more strife in the war-ravaged country and accused unnamed parties in the government of preventing a solution.


  

Saturday June 16, 2007 | Michael Howard in Rowanduz

All the fun of the fair - it must be Iraq
Regional chiefs hope new resort will help kick-start holiday industry

  


January 22, 2008 | By NAZILA FATHI

TEHRAN — Iran’s supreme religious leader, in what appeared to be his first public dispute with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, sided with Parliament on Monday in a conflict over energy policy.


  

Friday, August 19, 2005 [By Agence France Presse (AFP) - Compiled by Daily Star staff ]

Rebel group expected to declare truce in response to Erdogan's call for dialogue.
Turkey's leading Kurdish politicians urged the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to declare a cease-fire to help find a peaceful settlement to the Kurdish conflict.