Monday, 17 December 2007
The US has denied it gave permission for Turkish aircraft to carry out air strikes against Kurdish PKK separatist rebels in northern Iraq on Sunday.
Thursday, October 30, 2008 | Ben Lando
ANKARA, Turkey | As the U.S. and Iraqi governments struggle to finalize an agreement on continuing the U.S. troop presence in Iraq, there are few more interested bystanders than Turkey.
Friday, April 25, 2008 | Mehmet Ali Birand
ANK - The same song has been playing in my head since childhood: “ 23 Nisan, neşe doluyor insan...” meaning, “it’s the 23rd of April, it always gives one a thrill,” (‘joy’s a better word, but it doesn’t rhyme!). We always like to sing this song even at times when we don’t believe much in it.
Thu 4 May 2006 - SHIRKO ABDULLAH / IN RANIYAH, IRAQ
A KURD rebel commander threatened yesterday to retaliate if Turkey or Iran attacked guerrilla bases inside Iraq.
Tuesday January 29, 2008 | Liz Ford and agencies
A political science professor convicted of insulting the founder of modern Turkey is saying academics are finding it increasingly difficult to criticise the government.
Los Angeles Times
Published December 29, 2005
Friday, January 25, 2008 | AFP
Turkey and Russia were easily the worst offenders in a league table of the European Court of Human Rights judgments for 2007, released Wednesday by the European court's president.
October 23, 2007 | Op-Ed Contributor | By PETER W. GALBRAITH Townshend, Vt.
IN a surge of realism, the Senate has voted 75-23 to acknowledge that Iraq has broken up and cannot be put back together. The measure, co-sponsored by Joe Biden, a Democratic presidential candidate, and Sam Brownback, Republican of Kansas, supports a plan for Iraq to become a loose confederation of three regions — a Kurdish area in the north, a Shiite region in the south and a Sunni enclave in the center — with the national government in Baghdad having few powers other than to manage the equitable distribution of oil revenues.
