ANKARA, Turkey (AP-11/25/2005) - Turkey vowed Friday to offer no tolerance for Kurdish militants despite concern over actions of its own security forces after a convicted rebel was allegedly targeted in a grenade attack earlier this month.

7 February 2008

London, UK (KRG.org) - " Dr Ashti Hawrami, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Minister for Natural Resources, on Tuesday said that the oil and gas sector must be managed fairly to ensure the unity of Iraq.

1 March 2008

European Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn voiced renewed concern on Monday after the Constitutional Court agreed to hear a case to shut down the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) for alleged Islamist activities.

Fri Nov 16, 2007

Turkey will not send troops into northern Iraq against Kurdish separatists should the militants disarm, ruling AK Party members were quoted as saying on Friday, in an apparent change of tack aimed at ending the border crisis.

Tuesday, July 17, 2007 | By Megan Greenwell | Washington Post Staff Writer

Office of Iraqi President's Kurdish Party Targeted; Attack Is Deadliest for Oil City

BAGHDAD, July 16 -- A massive truck bomb followed by two smaller blasts ravaged Kirkuk on Monday, police said, killing more than 80 people in the deadliest attack in the troubled northern Iraqi city since the war began.

One recent day under a blazing morning sun, Selahattin Demirtas, a member of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) and a candidate for parliament in Turkey’s southeast region, was out and about pressing the flesh.

11 Apr 2008 | By Paul Taylor

BRUSSELS, April 11 (Reuters) - The United Nations will suggest a formula next month to resolve conflicts on several disputed areas in Iraq that could serve as a template for the future of Kirkuk, a senior U.N. official said on Friday.