Kurdish control of Kirkuk creates a powder keg in Iraq



By Richard A. Oppel Jr

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

KIRKUK, Iraq - The phone rang, and it was answered by a Kurdish security commander, Hallo Najat, sitting in his office in this deeply divided city. On the line, he said, was a United Nations official wanting to know whether it was true that the Kurdish militia, the pesh merga, had left its bases in northern Iraq and was occupying Kirkuk.


  

The Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq Selects Enterra Solutions



January 22, 2008

LLC, to Operate the Kurdistan Business Center

RESTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Enterra Solutions, LLC, has signed a services contract with the Minister of Trade for the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to provide a full service Business Center in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. The contract marks a new era for business and economic development in the Kurdistan region and provides a viable model for similar centers in other emerging market countries. Under the multi-year service contract, Enterra Solutions will establish and operate the Kurdistan Business Center in Erbil, Iraq, with a branch in Washington, DC and a future location in Europe.


  

“Stop Turkish Invasion of Iraq” says Najmaldin Karim, President of the Washington Kurdish Institute



February 26, 2008 | WKI Press Release

Washington, D.C. – The President of Washington Kurdish Institute, Dr. Najmaldin Karim, urged the government of Turkey to withdraw its troops from Iraqi Kurdistan and immediately cease military attacks that infringe on the sovereignty of Iraq.


  

Kurdish youth hold key to power in Iraqi elections


The Guardian - Monday December 12, 2005
Pop star drafted in as voters threaten to stay away in protest at living conditions Michael Howard in Sulaimaniya


  

Iraq's new Kurd president sworn in


BAGHDAD (AFP-Thu Apr 7, 9:38 AM ET) - Former rebel leader Jalal Talabani took the oath of office as Iraq's first Kurdish president as the country's new government finally took shape more than two months after watershed elections.


  

Turkish Planes Strike Iraqi Kurdistan



February 5, 2008 | By ALISSA J. RUBIN and SABRINA TAVERNISE

BAGHDAD —" Turkish warplanes bombed villages in Iraqi Kurdistan on Monday as the Kurds came under pressure on several fronts. Representatives in Parliament discussed the Kurdish share of the budget, and the Turkmen, a minority group primarily in northern Iraq, declared that they would no longer support efforts to hold a referendum on whether the city of Kirkuk should join the Kurdistan region.


  

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.