Party leader eyes Iraqi presidency


Kurd sees Sunni role in drafting constitution

Associated Press - 07/02/2005 -
By Scheherezade Faramarzi

QALA CHWALAN, Iraq -- The Kurdish leader who hopes to become Iraq’s new president pledged to try to bring the country’s disaffected Sunni Arabs into the political process although many of them stayed away from the polls in landmark elections.

Jalal Talabani, a Sunni nominated last week by Kurdish leaders as their candidate for one of Iraq’s two top posts, said he would urge Sunni Arabs to participate in drafting a constitution -- one of the key tasks of the new government that will soon take office.

  

Giving a voice to victims of Saddam's rule


By Kirk Semple The New York Times
THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2006

BAGHDAD - Beneath the clinical glare of fluorescent lights in a collection of makeshift laboratories here, the victims of mass murder under Saddam Hussein are slowly brought back to life.


  

Solution to Kurdish problem (2): Revitalizing peaceful coexistence



23.07.2008 by ALTAN TAN*

The idea of an ethnic federation is not an ideal response to contemporary needs, just as the idea of recognizing a separate state or government model for every sect and language would not be appropriate.

  

Turkey probes bomb attack as tensions flare in Kurdish region


SEMDINLI, Turkey, Nov 11 (AFP) - 17h49 - The Turkish government promised Friday to investigate a deadly bomb attack in this remote southeastern town that has sent tensions in the mainly Kurdish region soaring amid claims security forces may have been involved.


  

The Kurdish Question



Monday, Jul. 30, 2007 | By LYDIA WILSON/ARMAVIR

It's 4 a.m. and the groom is tucking into what looks like raw trout, stopping every now and then for a shot of vodka. He's 25 and a fledgling entrepreneur, flush with Russian money.


  

Iraqi Kurd and U.S. oil chiefs meet


Dec. 4, 2007 | Ben Lando, UPI Energy Editor

WASHINGTON,  The U.S. energy secretary "encouraged" the visiting Iraqi Kurdish region's oil minister to work with Shiite and Sunni Iraqis on a national oil law.


  

I prefer messy democracy to the stability of tyrants'



Tuesday, February 05, 2008 | Theo Caldwell,  National Post 

An interview with Iraq's ambassador to Canada

Howar Ziad, the Iraqi ambassador to Canada, has seen the best and the worst of humanity in his homeland. The courage of the Iraqi people, and in particular the emergence of the Kurdistan region from decades of genocide and devastation, represents the highest aspirations of the human spirit.


  

As Iraqis Celebrate, the Kurds Hesitate


By: PETER W. GALBRAITH
The New York Times - February 1, 2005
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR

Info"Erbil, (Southern Kurdistan) � OF all the remarkable things that happened at the Iraqi polls on Sunday, perhaps the most striking was pulled off by the Kurdish independence movement. With almost no advance notice, hundreds of Kurds erected tents at official polling places in Iraq's Kurdish areas and asked those emerging from the ballot booths to take part in an informal referendum on whether Kurdistan should be independent or part of Iraq. From what I saw, almost everyone stopped to vote in the referendum, and the tally was running 11 to 1 in favor of independence.


  

President Talabani Interview with Al-Arabiya TV



Washington Kurdish Institute
Tuesday July 10, 2007

Interview by Elie Nakuzi; “Frankly Speaking” in President Talabani’s Baghdad Office


*Elie Nakuzi:* Mr. President, thank you for receiving us. On my own behalf and on /Al-Arabiya's/ behalf we thank you. We know of course that you are quite busy and you have a crowded timetable, but thank you for accepting our invitation. I begin by asking about your health, for we have heard many rumors. How is President Talabani's health today ?


  

Document Links Hussein To Killings in Iraqi Town



By Nelson Hernandez and K.I. Ibrahim
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, April 18, 2006; A16

BAGHDAD, April 17 -- Handwriting experts confirmed that Saddam Hussein signed a document linking him to the killing of 148 people during his rule as Iraqi president, prosecutors said at Hussein's trial on Monday.