AFP / Expatica.com

President Nicolas Sarkozy says the Kurdish migrants who have just been released will be expelled from France if they are not genuine asylum seekers.

Bloomberg.com | By Tom Lavell

Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Europe’s second-largest airline, may resume flights to Baghdad after 20 years as economic-growth prospects boost air-travel demand.

AP.org

Los Angeles, Jan 9 - Iranian classical singer Shahram Nazeri, dubbed "Iran's Pavarotti," was released after being held overnight for questioning by authorities in Tehran.

Upi.com

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, Dec. 1 (UPI) - Members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party residing in Iraqi refugee camps will not return to Turkey until conditions are satisfactory, representatives said.

Nytimes.com | By JAMES GLANZ and WALTER GIBBS

OSLO — Peter W. Galbraith, an influential former American ambassador, is a powerful voice on Iraq who helped shape the views of policy makers like Joseph R. Biden Jr. and John Kerry. In the summer of 2005, he was also an adviser to the Kurdish regional government as Iraq wrote its Constitution — tough and sensitive talks not least because of issues like how Iraq would divide its vast oil wealth.

Rudaw.net

ERBIL-Hewlêr, Kurdistan region 'Iraq', — A large number of Kurdish officials, foreign diplomats and Dutch citizens attended the official opening of the Netherlands Consulate in Erbil, capital of Iraq’s Kurdistan Region, on Monday, October 12.

Cnn.com | By Simon Hooper

A play featuring dialogue in Kurdish is to be performed for the first time at a Turkish state theater Thursday in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir.

Foreignpolicy.com | NICK DANFORTH

Chances of Turkey and the Kurds reaching a rapprochement are at their highest in 25 years. But what does that mean for Turkification -- and what concessions are the Turks willing to make?

PRNewswire via COMTEX

WASHINGTON, On Friday, September 4, 2009, Kurds and their supporters will be gathering at the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C. (from 12:00pm-2:00pm) to protest the arrest of Kurdish folk singer, poet and activist Sivan Perwer and demand a formal apology from Canadian PM Stephen Harper to Sivan Perwer and to the Kurdish people. A similar demonstration, sponsored by Toronto Kurdish House, is being held on Saturday, September 5, 2009 at the Legislative Assembly of Ontario Street (Queens Park) in Toronto from 5:30pm until 8:00pm.