Hürriyet Daily News - ISTANBUL

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the chairman of a group of respected global statesmen, has reportedly called on the Turkish prime minister to take action to bring about a solution to the Kurdish question.

Kurdistan Commentary

PRESS RELEASE: TURKISH EMBASSY IN LONDON REFUSES LETTER FROM ARCHBISHOP TUTU

By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA and EROL ISRAFIL (AP)

ISTANBUL — On the practice range one day, a Turkish military officer noticed that one of the conscripts under his command, an ethnic Kurd, had a good eye.

Guardian.co.uk | Martin Chulov in Baghdad

Tariq Aziz is slumped on a tattered brown sofa seat cradling his walking stick and cigarettes, his gaunt face topped, incongruously for a practising Christian, by a Muslim prayer cap. It is perhaps only the familiar black-ringed spectacles that signal to the visitor that this was Iraq's former face to the world – Saddam Hussein's right-hand man, his most powerful deputy.

Guardian.co.uk | Martin Chulov in Baghdad

Saddam Hussein's most loyal deputy, Tariq Aziz, has accused Barack Obama of 'leaving Iraq to the wolves' by pressing ahead with a withdrawal of combat troops in the face of festering instability and a surge in violence.

Bbc.co.uk | By Jonathan Head, Istanbul

Thirty supporters of the outlawed Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) are going on trial in south-eastern Turkey, eight months after they returned from exile.

bbc.co.uk

More than 340 children in the Kurdish south-east of Turkey have been given long prison sentences in the past three years.

Todayszaman.com | with wires | Istanbul

Mourners in Malatya on Tuesday bid their last farewell to journalist and short-story writer Evrim Alataş, who died on Monday after a lengthy battle with lung cancer.

ANKARA (Reuters) - A Turkish court has sentenced the editor of a Kurdish newspaper to 21 years in prison for printing what it called Kurdish rebel propaganda, a ruling likely to raise concern about press freedom in the EU candidate country.

Guardian.co.uk | Robert Tait in Istanbul

A 15-year-old Turkish girl who was arrested at a demonstration in support of a banned Kurdish group has been jailed for nearly eight years after being convicted of "terrorist" offences, including allegedly throwing stones at police.