Ntvmsnbc10:50 ET 20 February 2006 Monday / Ankara -Turkey's media watchdog has announced that broadcasts in the Kurdish language may commence in March on private radio and television stations.

Allowing broadcasts in languages other than Turkish was one of the requirements set by the European Union.

  


27 june 2007 | By Damien McElroy in Kashan Valley, northern Iraq

On a mountain ridge overlooking a riverside picnic spot in Kashan, Roshad Adel picked at the broken soil. Within minutes he was holding a handful of shrapnel.


  

 
Monday, March 24, 2008  | The Associated Press

ANKARA: The police on Monday broke up a protest by hundreds of masked and stone-throwing Kurdish demonstrators during the fifth straight day of clashes that have killed two people and wounded dozens, news reports said.


  

Kurdish candidate in Kirkuk wins the race for governor, news reports say

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Wednesday, February 9, 2005
ANKARA - Iraqi Kurds and Shiite groups will soon launch post-election talks over sharing government posts, Iraqi interim Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said yesterday.


  


Tuesday, 23 October 2007

The top US military commander in Iraq, Gen David Petraeus, tells BBC diplomatic correspondent Jonathan Marcus of his fears about a possible Turkish raid in the autonomous Kurdish region of Iraq.


  

TurkishPress.com - 8/22/2005 - ISTANBUL - Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Kurdish problem and PKK terrorism were different things, adding ''we won't confuse the two, we should separate them.''

  


14 December 2007

Remarks made by Chief of General Staff Gen. Yaşar Büyükanıt, stating that he believes the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is "in Parliament," have been a source of legal and political controversy from the moment they were first uttered on Wednesday


  

 
Monday, June 25, 2007  | By Amir Afkhami and Michael Soussan

HALABJA, Iraq - In a few days, "Chemical Ali" will face death by hanging. Ali Hassan al-Majid earned his nickname after he ordered the use of chemical weapons to eradicate the population of Halabja, a Kurdish town located near Iraq's northern border with Iran.


  


March 17, 2008

Twenty years on, few Kurds forget that the United States and other Western countries stood idle while a chemical attack killed 5,000
MARK MACKINNON

HALABJA, IRAQ — Rafiq Laiq learned two difficult lessons as he and his family fled the chemical-gas attack Saddam Hussein's army launched on this town 20 years ago.


  


April 27, 2008 | BEJAN MATUR
  
Imagine that you live in Diyarbakır. If you did not vote for the Democratic Society Party (DTP) in the last election, you must have chosen the Justice and Development Party (AK Party). You did so for a number of reasons.