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An ambitious project unearths memories of Turkey’s Kurdish youth
Jenna Krajeski 27 Jan 2013
Remzi, a 26-year-old Kurd from southeast Turkey, has a pretty typical life story for someone like him. A child during...
Police officers and firefighters gather at the site of a shooting in Toulouse, southwestern France, Monday, 19 March 2012. Brunon Martin/AP
Three Kurdish women found shot dead in Paris
Reuters 10 Jan 2013
  Three Kurdish women said to include a founding member of the PKK militant group were shot dead overnight in...
Female fighters of the Kurdish milita YPG at an roadblock in Derik, North East Syria. The woman on the right is Arabic Christian.
Kurdish Syria: From cultural to armed revolution
Benjamin Hiller 28 Jul 2012
DERIK, Syria — The Kurdish rebellion in northeastern Syria intensified in fighting that erupted Saturday 22 July...
Turkish soldiers on patrol near the Turkey-Iraq border in the mainly Kurdish southeastern province of Sirnak
Turkish air strikes kill 23 Kurds near Iraq
AFP 29 Dec 2011
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey — Turkish air strikes killed 23 Kurdish villagers in the southeast near the Iraqi border early...
Passengers disembark from the hijacked Kartepe ferry in the Marmara sea in the western Silivri district of Istanbul, November 12, 2011. A Kurdish rebel, who hijacked the Turkish ferry with 24 people aboard on November 11, was killed early on Noovember 12 and all his hostages brought to safety after an ordeal of more than 12 hours. Istanbul Governor Huseyin Avni Mutlu said the hijacker, about 30 years old, was "a member of the terrorist organization", referring to the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
Turkish commandos shoot dead lone ferry hijacker
Reuters 12 Nov 2011
Turkish commandos killed a lone hijacker, believed to be a Kurdish militant, in a pre-dawn operation on Saturday to...
File photo shows Turkish soldiers on patrol near the Turkey-Iraq border in the mainly Kurdish southeastern province of Sirnak. 
Turkey launches incursion into Iraq
AP 20 Oct 2011
ANKARA, Turkey - Turkish soldiers, air force bombers and helicopter gunships launched an incursion into northern Iraq...
Hundreds rallied in the disputed Iraqi town of Khanaqin on Sunday to demand the reversal of a central government ruling barring the flag of the autonomous Kurdish region in official buildings.
Hundreds protest flag ruling in disputed Iraq Kurdish town
AFP 16 Oct 2011
Hundreds rallied in the disputed Iraqi town of Khanaqin on Sunday to demand the reversal of a central government ruling...
Turkish soldiers on patrol near the Turkey-Iraq border in the mainly Kurdish southeastern province of Sirnak
Landmine kills 10 in Turkey: security official
AFP 16 Sep 2010
Diyarbakir, Turkey--A landmine believed to have been planted by Kurdish rebels killed 10 people travelling in a minibus...
File photo shows Turkish soldiers on patrol near the Turkey-Iraq border in the mainly Kurdish southeastern province of Sirnak. 
Kurdish rebels announce conditional ceasefire
Reuters 13 Aug 2010
Qandil Mountains, Iraq--Kurdish militants from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) have announced a conditional ceasefire...
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks to the press prior leaving to the United States at Tehran's Mehrabad Airport on May 2, 2010. Ahmadinejad said the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) has failed in its aims and Iran will propose changes to it as he left for New York to attend a meeting for review of the treaty
Iran hangs five members of Kurdish 'terrorist' group
Reuters 09 May 2010
Tehran--Iran hanged five members of a Kurdish "anti-revolutionary" group for various charges, including "moharebe" or...