European rights court condemns Turkey for jailing Kurdish writer


STRASBOURG, Feb 8 (AFP) - 18h35 - The European Court of Human Rights Tuesday censured Turkey for violating the right to free speech of a Kurd, jailed because a book he published was considered separatist Kurdish propaganda.

"The tenor of the book was not such as to justify the applicants criminal conviction," the court ruled, according to a press release.

  

Miliband and Barzani discuss Turkey, Article 140 and political progress in Iraq



25 Apr. 2008

Salahaddin, Kurdistan - Iraq (KRG.org) - President Masoud Barzani yesterday met Mr David Miliband, the British Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary, to discuss political progress in Iraq, relations with Turkey and Article 140 of the Constitution.


  

Will Turkey shoot ?



Article published Jul 6, 2007

Mark R. Parris - Turkey's top general said again last week he would like to cross Turkey's border with Iraq to strike terrorist camps of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK). Leaders of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling AK Party (which its critics label "Islamist") have publicly suggested an incursion is possible before Turkey's July 22 general elections. Will Turkey shoot ?

  

Harsh Realities and Mystical Power



December 14, 2007 | By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS

For his poetic fourth feature, “Half Moon,” the Kurdish-Iranian writer and director Bahman Ghobadi returns to the breathtaking desolation of the Kurdish borderlands and the enduring optimism of his people.


  

Peshmerga to protect Iraq power and oil



July 30, 2007

SULAIMANIYA, Iraq, July 30 (UPI) -- Iraqi Kurdistan security forces will be sent to neighboring provinces to protect key power towers once Iraq's prime minister gives the green light.


  

Iraqi Kurds reject 'Islamic Iraq' as US hunts rebels


BAGHDAD, Aug 6 (AFP) - 15h18 - Iraqi Kurds Saturday rejected suggestions the country should be proclaimed an Islamic state as the northern region's autonomous parliament debated the country's draft constitution ahead of a national conference on the issue Sunday.

  

Kurdish leader Barzani to head new regional government


SALAHEDDIN, Iraq, May 29 (AFP) - 11h14 - Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani is to head an autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq after a deal with his longtime rival, Iraq's new President Jalal Talabani, a Kurdish official said Sunday.
The regional parliament will also meet on June 4 for the first time since the January elections, the official told AFP.

  

Kurdish Rebel Group Announces Truce


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By SELCAN HACAOGLU, [Associated Press Writer - Aug 19, 2005]
A Kurdish rebel group fighting for autonomy in Turkey's southeast announced a one-month cease-fire Friday and said it planned to pursue indirect negotiations with the government.

  

EU: Talks must be suspended if AK Party closed down



April 2, 2008 | Selçuk Gültaşli | Brussels

European Union officials yesterday stepped up warnings that a possible closure of Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) would have fatal implications on the country's bid to join the 27-nation club.


  

Kurdish widows' lives frozen in time



September 9, 2007 | By Borzou Daragahi, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

BARZAN, Iraq — Patience, the mothers begged their children. Saddam Hussein will fall. Liberty will come. Your father will return.

In 1983, the men of Barzan were taken by Hussein's troops, never to be seen again. But the women still wait.