DTP deputies complete MP registration



July 30, 2007

Nineteen independent candidates supported by the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) completed procedures to register as parliamentary representatives in Parliament on Sunday.


  

Turkish officials charge group in alleged coup plot



July 15, 2008 | By Laura King, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

The 86 accused in the indictment face terrorism-related charges. They are said to be ultranationalist secularists who wanted to drive out the Islamist-rooted ruling party.

ISTANBUL, TURKEY -- In an explosive case that reflects political turmoil fueled by this country's religious-secular divide, Turkish prosecutors on Monday brought charges against 86 people for allegedly trying to overthrow the government.


  

Can the U.N. avert a Kirkuk border war?



April 25, 2008  | By Sam Dagher | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor

The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq is expected to unveil a plan in May that it hopes will lead to a compromise over contentious land issues in oil-rich northern Iraq.

KIRKUK, Iraq - Kirkuk provincial council head Rizgar Ali says one proof of the province's "Kurdishness" is in the maps.


  

Death verdicts for Iran reporters



Tuesday, 31 July 2007

Iran has sentenced two dissident journalists from its ethnic Kurdish minority for being "enemies of God".


  

Hanging of Saddam`s aides filmed



15 January 2007

Iraqi officials have shown journalists video footage of the hanging of two of Saddam Hussein's aides, during which one of the men was decapitated.

  

The Way Out


July 10, 2007 | Flynt Leverett, Suzanne Nossel, Charles A. Kupchan, Lawrence J. Korb and Peter W. Galbraith

A roundtable discussion of our options for exiting Iraq.

In our June issue, Flynt Leverett penned a memo to the incoming president laying out the options for an exit from Iraq. Below, several prominent progressives respond and offer their own suggestions.


  

Villagers tell of terror after Turkey launches rocket attack across border



October 16, 2007

Deborah Haynes in Matin Mountains
The Turkish rockets streaked out of the night sky and slammed into the mountainside next to a village in northern Iraq, setting fire to a swath of grassland and forcing families to dive for cover.

  

Turkish PM promises Kurds more democracy despite new rebel violence


DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, Aug 12 (AFP) - 16h02 - Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan pledged Friday that the Kurdish conflict in Turkey would be resolved with "more democracy" despite a marked increase in violence by armed Kurdish rebels whom Ankara considers "terrorists."

  

Iraqi Kurds protest for self-determination


KIRKUK, Iraq, Aug 14 (AFP) - 14h04 - Hundreds of Iraqi Kurds demonstrated Sunday in Kirkuk calling for self-determination in the constitution and demanding a Kurdish identity for the northern oil hub city.

  

Gas City' launched by Kurdish government



Thu July 31, 2008

ARBIL, Iraq (CNN) -- Two United Arab Emirates based companies announced on Tuesday that they will be investing in the Iraq's autonomous region of Kurdistan.