Thursday, October 11, 2007  | The Associated Press

ANKARA, Turkey: Mehmed Uzun, a Kurdish novelist who was prosecuted for criticizing Turkey's ban on the Kurdish language, died on Thursday, a friend said. He was 54.

April 17, 2008 | Bitterlemons-International.org | Steven A. Cook, Douglas Dillon Fellow

With all the attention in Iraq over the last five years focused on the fate of al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia, the conflict between Sunni and Shi’ite, the role of Iran, the security of Anbar province, the “surge” and, most recently, the further deterioration of Basra, the situation in northern Iraq has only received sporadic attention.

Tuesday, 26 February 2008

The Iraqi government has denounced a Turkish incursion into northern Iraq in some of the strongest terms heard since the operation began last week.

10 March 2008 | Ilnur Cevik

President Talabani is in Ankara. However, his visit is not a state visit but a working visit. This is so simply because he is a Kurd. Turkey has to get rid of this Kurdish phobia if its wants to solve its own Kurdish problem.

Wednesday, March 5, 2008 | Cengiz ÇANDAR

The timing and nature of the pullout from northern Iraq would have to cause a stir in Turkish public inevitably. Statements issued on the subject do not clear the question marks about the withdrawal but rather bring more to mind.

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, Nov 17 (AFP) - Thousands of people gathered in Yuksekova town in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast Thursday to bury three people killed in riots that have strained the region and rattled the Ankara government.

24 Feb. 2008

Erbil, Kurdistan - " Iraq (KRG.org) - " Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani today held a press conference in Erbil, capital of the Kurdistan Region, to discuss the ongoing Turkish military incursion in Iraq and his recent visits to the Republic of Korea and State of Qatar.