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.
BAGHDAD, Sept 15 (AFP) - 12h54 - Ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein will likely be tried later this year over the massacre of Kurds unless he is found guilty and hanged immediately at the conclusion of a first case opening in October, a source close to the Iraq's Special Tribunal said Thursday.
ARBIL, Iraq, Oct 3 (AFP) - 16h51 - Iraq's President Jalal Talabani and fellow Kurdish leader Massud Barzani have warned Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari his high-handed running of the government is jeopardizing their support.
