Bianet-The ECHR has decreed that Turkey made undemocratic decisions in the banning of the "Yedinci Gündem" newspaper in emergency law regions, and in the case of YDP leader Hasan Celal Güzel.
Kurdish Journalist, Activist Sentenced To Death In Iran
Aina-Authorities in Iran's northwestern Kurdistan Province have condemned two ethnic Kurds to death for acting against the country's national security.
Reuters-Turkish state prosecutors opened an investigation on Monday into Masoud Barzani, head of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, whom Ankara suspects of supporting Turkish Kurdish rebels.
AFP-Five Iranian soldiers have been killed during clashes with members of an armed group in a Kurdish populated area in the northwest of the country, local papers reported yesterday.
TheDailyStar-Powerful Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Sunday warned Ankara over its bombardments of Iraqi villages in the northern Iraq as Kurdish rebels threatened to escalate attacks against Turkish troops unless Turkey ends its military operations against the group. Both warnings came shortly before a small bomb left outside a clothing shop in Istanbul wounded 14 people Sunday.
Gates presses Turkey against military action in Iraq
Reuters-U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates urged Turkey against using military force against Kurdish separatist forces in northern Iraq as tensions build up in the border region.
Al Iraqi's Turkish attorneys to reveal details of the case
AKI-One day after Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, a man identifying himself as the new leader of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, accused Turkey of arresting and handing over to the US Abdel Hadi al-Iraqi, an operative selected to lead al-Qaeda in Iraq, an attorney from the law office which represented al-Iraqi in Turkey said new details on his case will be revealed soon.