One recent day under a blazing morning sun, Selahattin Demirtas, a member of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) and a candidate for parliament in Turkey’s southeast region, was out and about pressing the flesh.
11 Apr 2008 | By Paul Taylor
BRUSSELS, April 11 (Reuters) - The United Nations will suggest a formula next month to resolve conflicts on several disputed areas in Iraq that could serve as a template for the future of Kirkuk, a senior U.N. official said on Friday.
July 15, 2007 | Andrew Sullivan
The phrase on everyone’s lips now is “postsurge”. The logistics of military tour cycles, the logic of congressional politics and the sheer impossibility of putting Iraq back together again in anything like the foreseeable future have caused something of a Rubicon in Washington.
Friday, 29 February 2008
The Turkish military says it has withdrawn its troops from northern Iraq, following a controversial ground offensive against Kurdish rebels.
The policy of the Presidency, the Government, and the political parties of the Kurdistan Region related to this issue can be summarized as follows:
WASHINGTON -- You can't have one without the other, but with many of Iraq's power plants shut and refineries stopped, Iraqis have neither fuel nor electricity.
