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.

  

Remains of massacred Iraqi Kurds returned home 20 years on


ARBIL, Iraq, Oct 17 (AFP) - 22h29 - Kurdish leaders and tearful family members on Monday met 512 coffins carrying the remains of Kurds who have been missing for two decades during a somber ceremony in the northern Iraqi city of Arbil.

  

Justice, but No Reckoning



December 30, 2006
Washington Op-Ed Contributor / By NAJMALDIN KARIM

MY personal battle with Saddam Hussein — which began in 1972 when I abandoned my medical career in Mosul, Iraq, and joined the Kurdish armed resistance — is at an end. To execute such a criminal, a man who reveled in his atrocities, is an act of justice.

  

US Vice President Cheney on first visit to Kurdistan says Region is 'extraordinary example' for rest of Iraq



18 March 2008

Erbil, Kurdistan - Iraq (KRG.org) - US Vice President Dick Cheney, accompanied by his wife Lynne, became the highest ranking official to visit the Kurdistan Region when he arrived today for meetings with President Masoud Barzani and senior officials in Erbil.


  

Police on trial for Kurd attack


 By Sarah Rainsford / BBC News, Van