Saturday, 23 February 2008 | By Patrick Cockburn

Up to 10,000 Turkish troops launch an incursion which threatens to destabilise the country's only peaceful region.

April 28, 2008

A long-awaited meeting between Turkish officials and Nechirvan Barzani, the prime minister of northern Iraq's largely autonomous regional Kurdish administration, will take place before the end of this spring, a high-level Turkish official has said.

  By Dan Murphy, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
Mon Apr 24, 4:00 AM ET

BAGHDAD - Four months after     Iraq voted, the government's top posts were named by Parliament this weekend. The winners called for an end to sectarian divisions and a commitment to unity that has proved so elusive since     Saddam Hussein fell.

Friday, May 2, 2008

ANKARA - A Turkish delegation comprised of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's chief policy advisor and Turkey's special envoy for Iraq departed for Baghdad yesterday for meetings with central Iraqi government officials as well as Iraqi Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani.

4 March 2008 | By Elitsa Vucheva

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – The EU on Monday urged Turkey to increase the pace of its human rights reforms, as well as to improve the situation of the country's Kurdish minority.

  By Sameer N. Yacoub The Associated Press, 27 November 2006

Iraqi Kurd says he witnessed executions of his family members 

BAGHDAD, Iraq // Two Iraqi Kurds who left their homeland for the United States after Saddam Hussein's crackdown on the minority group testified today in the former dictator's genocide trial, describing harrowing days of firing squads and mass graves.

14 january 2008 | Raghida Dergham

Al-Hayat: Obviously I'm going to start with your visit here to the United States and your talks with president George W. Bush. You are pursuing the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) inside of Iraq and it seems that Administration in Washington has given a sort of approval for that. What is in return, Mr. President? Are there any guarantees that you gave that you would not invade Iraq? Are there promises from the United States that they will not establish a base in Kurdistan Iraq?

Wednesday, July 23, 2008 | By Sudarsan Raghavan and Ernesto Londoño

Kurds Boycott Vote, Putting Measure's Future in Doubt

BAGHDAD, July 22 -- Iraq's parliament passed legislation Tuesday setting new rules for provincial elections, a step widely viewed here as critical to the country's process of political reconciliation.

ISTANBUL, Oct 29 (AFP) - 10h31 - A Turkish army reservist and a Kurdish rebel were killed late Friday in a rocket attack by rebel forces against a military post in the Kurdish majority region of southeast Turkey, the Anatolia news agency reported Saturday.