$1M Donation Helps UCF Create Country's First Endowed Chair in Kurdish Political Studies



March 13, 2008 | By UCF Staff

At a time when Kurds are becoming known as “the Iraq that works,” the University of Central Florida will receive a $1 million donation to create the first endowed chair in Kurdish Political Studies in the United States.


  

No Rushing Talks on Pact With U.S., Iraqis Say



June 16, 2008 | By ALISSA J. RUBIN and SUADAD AL-SALHY

BAGHDAD — Discussions among Iraqi politicians on the country’s long-term security agreement with the United States were under way over the weekend, but it will take many weeks and more likely months before the agreement is completed, people close to the negotiations said.


  

Why Turkey's Kurds are ever more edgy



June 29, 2007 | By Scott Peterson | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

Diyarbakir, Turkey  | While Kurds are testing the limits of legal reforms that grant more freedoms, an uptick in attacks from separatists threaten to erode gains made by the ethnic minority.
By Scott Peterson | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
 


  

Iraq's top leaders voice approval of Kurdish, Shiite militias Support rankles Sunnis who blame them for killings


Edward Wong, New York Times - Thursday, June 9, 2005

Baghdad -- The rift between Iraq's government and disgruntled Sunni Arabs widened further on Wednesday as Iraq's leaders came out in support of sectarian militias that Sunnis fear could be used against them.

  

Turkey convicts 53 Kurdish mayors for backing Denmark-based TV station



April 15, 2008  | The Associated Press

ANKARA, Turkey: A Turkish court on Tuesday found 53 Kurdish mayors guilty of praising a criminal group because they asked Denmark to let a television station with alleged links to Kurdish guerrillas continue to operate there.


  

‘We are training the future leaders of Kurdistan’



2 June 2007 | BEJAN MATUR

The University of Kurdistan is the modern face of the Kurdish region, seeking as soon as possible to become the new Dubai and integrate with the world without compromising its traditional side.


  

Kurds reject Islamic identity for new Iraq


ARBIL, Iraq, Aug 6 (AFP) - 14h03 - The president of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, Massud Barzani, said Saturday that the Kurds would not accept an Islamic identity for Iraq when the war-torn country's new constitution is finalised.

  

Saddam sees new president's election


Iraqi transitional assembly elects Kurdish leader

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraq's new transitional assembly took an expected but historic step Wednesday, electing Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani as the nation's president -- a symbol of the new Kurdish clout in the largely Arab nation.

  

Rice pledges US help to Turkey against Kurd rebels


 

Tuesday, April 25, 2006
ANKARA (Reuters) - The United States tried on Tuesday to ease Turkey's concerns instability in Iraq was threatening its security, pledging continued support for Ankara's fight against the rebel Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).


  

Iraq's Kurdish president tells of confession from Saddam


Associated Press - September 7, 2005

Info BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's president said Tuesday that Saddam Hussein had confessed to killings and other "crimes" committed during his regime, including the massacre of thousands of Kurds in the late 1980s.