Baghdad -
Iraq's top minister responsible for energy affairs on Saturday criticised the autonomous Kurdish region's push towards exporting oil independently of Baghdad, calling it a grey area lacking in transparency.
Turkey's Prime Minister Erdogan has announced reforms that will see to the salvaging of the crumbling peace process begun earlier this year with the Kurdish opposition.
Kurdish rebels belonging to the militant PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) have began pulling their fighters out of Turkey, and back to their main stronghold in northern Iraq.
Istanbul -
On the day that Kurdish people celebrate a new year and the coming of spring, Turkey and the PKK terrorist organization announce a ceasefire.
Istanbul -
Sociologist Pinar Selek has been sentenced to life imprisonment for a 1998 bombing in Istanbul, even though she had been acquitted three times previously and experts say that there was no bombing but the explosion was an accident caused by a gas leak.
On Tuesday, troops from Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region opened fire on an Iraqi army helicopter flying near Sikanyan town located north of Kirkuk, a city which sits atop some of the world's largest oil reserves.
On March 16, 1988, at the height of the Iraq-Iran war, at the direction of dictator Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi Air Force unleashed chemical warfare upon the Kurds, an ethnic group, in the Iraqi city of Halabja. At least 5,000 people were killed in that attack and many thousands more suffered permanent physical, emotional and mental disabilities
