An important Kurdish Leader in Turkey apologizes for the contribution of the Kurds to the Aramean Genocide of 1915- Appeal to Ahmet Turk.

Turkish warplanes have again bombed alleged Kurdish guerrilla positions in northern Iraq.

Iraqi Parliament is widely concerned about the Kurdish regional government's oil deals with foreign companies, saying the contracts could harm future of Iraq's vast oil industry.

Turkish warplanes bombed three Iraqi villages near the border town of Zakho in northern Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region on Tuesday but caused no casualties, a security official said.

Independent Kurdish state does exist, historian Haykazun Alvrtsyan told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.

The fact that the Kurdistan Workers Party, according to the U.S. Department of States, is “a common enemy for Turkey and the USA” is already clear. What could hardly be expected was that the Kremlin subscribed to this opinion as well. “We consider the activities of the Kurdistan Workers Party to be terrorist attacks and we condemn them. We think that Turkey has the right to protect itself. But we believe that the only way to solve the problem is the dialogue.

Turkish officials say the military has been targeting Kurdish rebel positions inside northern Iraq since a rebel ambush near the border Sunday that killed 12 Turkish soldiers.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayipp Erdogan says his government cannot wait forever for neighboring Iraq to deal with rebels of the Kurdistan Workers' Party who are using northern Iraq as a safe haven from which to launch attacks against Turkey.

Turkey shells Iraq border on frontier border in Kurdish region at rebels PKK camps for their freedom to ambush Turkish soldiers from last month.

The Iraqi Government has called for "urgent negotiations" over Turkey's threat to carry out cross-border raids against Kurdish rebels.

The Turkish military has stepped up attacks and has shelled areas in Northern Iraq and has assembled 60,000 troops along the Iraq border.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that Turkey would be ready to pay the price of any Iraq campaign if it decides to stage a cross-border offensive against Kurdish rebels in Iraq.