Monday, April 14, 2008 | By Gareth Jenkins
Turkey and Iran will look to boost security cooperation during the 12th meeting of the Turkey-Iran High Security Commission in Ankara on April 14-18. The agenda is expected to be dominated by discussions about cooperation against violent rebel Kurdish groups: the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which targets Turkey, and the Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK), which is active in Iran.
July 31, 2008
Good news has been a long time coming in Turkey, but the drought ended yesterday when the high court narrowly decided not to ban the country's governing party. Maybe Ankara now can get back to the important work of building a liberal Muslim democracy.
April 1, 2008 | By SABRINA TAVERNISE
ISTANBUL — Turkey’s highest court said Monday that it had decided to hear a case on shutting down the governing party and banning its political leaders, moving the country closer to a final confrontation between religious and secular Turks about who will rule the nation.
The Japan Times: Sept. 29, 2005 By MASAMI ITO, Staff writer
The Tokyo High Court on Wednesday dismissed an appeal filed by a Kurdish asylum seeker to revoke a Justice Ministry decision to deny him refugee status.
ANKARA, Turkey (AP-11/25/2005) - Turkey vowed Friday to offer no tolerance for Kurdish militants despite concern over actions of its own security forces after a convicted rebel was allegedly targeted in a grenade attack earlier this month.
7 February 2008
London, UK (KRG.org) - " Dr Ashti Hawrami, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Minister for Natural Resources, on Tuesday said that the oil and gas sector must be managed fairly to ensure the unity of Iraq.
1 March 2008
European Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn voiced renewed concern on Monday after the Constitutional Court agreed to hear a case to shut down the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) for alleged Islamist activities.
Fri Nov 16, 2007
Turkey will not send troops into northern Iraq against Kurdish separatists should the militants disarm, ruling AK Party members were quoted as saying on Friday, in an apparent change of tack aimed at ending the border crisis.
Tuesday, July 17, 2007 | By Megan Greenwell | Washington Post Staff Writer
Office of Iraqi President's Kurdish Party Targeted; Attack Is Deadliest for Oil City
BAGHDAD, July 16 -- A massive truck bomb followed by two smaller blasts ravaged Kirkuk on Monday, police said, killing more than 80 people in the deadliest attack in the troubled northern Iraqi city since the war began.
