1.   The Kurdish rebels, who seek an autonomous state and use northern Iraq as a base, were attacked last week by Turkish government jets and ground troops.

2.   A Somali faction leader who heads the new, self-styled Puntland autonomous state in northeastern Somalia says regionalization is the way to a unified, peaceful Somalia.

3.   Abdullahi Yusuf said the only viable option to remake Somalia was to create autonomous regional states that would eventually form a federal administration.

4.   After routing their Iranian-backed opponents, they are setting up the institutions of an autonomous state.

5.   He is proposing to make Gibraltar an autonomous state within Britain, much like the Channel Islands and the Isle of Mann.

6.   His extremist group seeks an autonomous state for Afrikaners, the Dutch-descended white settlers of South Africa who ruled during apartheid.

7.   Inkatha wants to run KwaZulu-Natal province as an autonomous state in South Africa, with provincial leaders controlling security, education and other areas instead of the national government.

8.   Iraqi Kurds maintain a de-facto autonomous state in northern Iraq under under the protection of a U.S.-led allied mission.

9.   Iraq and especially Turkey oppose Kurdish rebels seeking an autonomous state.

10.   It is fighting to establish an autonomous state in southeastern Turkey.