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.
By SAMEER N. YACOUB Associated Press
April 5, 2006
BAGHDAD, Iraq authorities charged Saddam Hussein with genocide Tuesday, accusing him of trying to exterminate the Kurds in a 1980s campaign that killed an estimated 100,000 -- the first move to prosecute him for the major human rights violations that the U.S. cited to help justify its invasion.
January 7, 2008 | M. Alıhan Hasanoğlu Dukan
Both Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and Iraqi Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani have condemned the bomb attack which killed last week five people in Turkey's predominantly Kurdish populated southwestern Anatolian province of Diyarbakır, describing the bombing as a brutal act that targeted Kurds.
January 26, 2006
by RICHARD A. OPPEL ERBIL, Jan. 25 — Kamal Sayid Qadir had just returned here from Austria in late October when two trusted former students invited him for coffee at the Hotel Avista.
Turkey made a protest to its neighbor and regional rival Greece Saturday because a map shown during an official seminar organized by the Greek Chief of general Staff, divided Turkey into parts.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007 | By Sebnem Arsu and Sabrina Tavernise
ISTANBUL: Turkey's parliament voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to authorize sending troops into northern Iraq to confront Kurdish rebels in hideouts there, sending an angry message to the Baghdad government and its Washington sponsors. But the NATO country made clear it would not act unless it had to.
Monday June 18, 2007 | Michael Howard in the Qandil mountains
A Kurdish rebel leader has warned Turkey that it faces disaster if its troops and tanks cross into northern Iraq, amid growing concern of a big Turkish operation to hunt down Kurdish guerrillas holed up across the border.
