By The Associated Press
Sat May 20, 200, 2:39 PM ET
Iraq's new 39-position national Cabinet, which includes four women:
Prime minister: Nouri al-Maliki, Shiite.
Deputy prime minister: Barham Saleh, Kurd.
Deputy prime minister: Salam Zikam Ali al-Zubaie, Sunni Arab.
· Poll victory gives Erdogan power to resist military
· Kurdish party wins 23 seats in new parliament
11/9/2005 Cyprus News Agency
Nicosia, (CNA) -- "I cannot stand this attitude towards our people. I cannot tolerate Turkish barbarity anymore. This is the only way to express myself," a young Kurd said before he set himself on fire during a demonstration outside the French Embassy in Nicosia today.
February 23, 2008 | By Tina Susman and Yesim Comert, Special to The Times
BAGHDAD -- Turkish troops clashed with Kurdish militants in the snowy mountains of northern Iraq on Friday after staging an invasion, the most serious offensive in years in Turkey's conflict with anti-government rebels.
Tuesday, July 31, 2007 | DUYGU GÜVENÇ
Iraqi PM Maliki's visit can mark a historic step for the two countries if joint steps against the PKK are approved, diplomats say
April 2007 | by Christopher Hitchens
Letter from Kurdistan
Over Christmas break, the author took his son to northern Iraq, which the U.S. had made a no-fly zone in 1991, ending Saddam's chemical genocide. Now reborn, Iraqi Kurdistan is a heartrending glimpse of what might have been.
12 July 2007
The military intervention that Turkey has been considering staging in northern Iraq to root out members of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) based there seems to have been postponed to a time after the elections, with Prime Minister Recep Tayip Erdoğan stating "the possibility of getting parliamentary approval for an operation is not on our agenda right now."
