July 23, 2008 | By ALISSA J. RUBIN
BAGHDAD — The Iraqi Parliament approved legislation on Tuesday to govern provincial elections, but Kurdish lawmakers boycotted the session, vowing to force the measure to be rewritten, and probably delaying the balloting for months.
October 23, 2007 | By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr.
BAGHDAD, Oct. 22 — Deadly raids into Turkey by Kurdish militants holed up in northern Iraq are the focus of urgent diplomacy, with Turkey threatening invasion of Iraq and the United States begging for restraint while expressing solidarity with Turkish anger.
August 24, 2006 - by Damien Cave
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Aug. 23 — Defense lawyers for Saddam Hussein accused a former Kurdish militant of treason on Wednesday, arguing on the third day of Mr. Hussein’s genocide trial that chemical attacks on Kurds were legitimate acts against local militias conspiring with Iran.
April 11, 2008 | By NAZILA FATHI
TEHRAN — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has decided to dismiss his economics and interior ministers, a government spokesman said in Iranian newspaper accounts published Thursday.
April 20, 2008 | Secretary Condoleezza Rice
Baghdad, Iraq - PRESIDENT TALABANI: (Via interpreter.) First of all, I want to start by thanking our guest and friend, Secretary Rice, for her visit. We started our meeting by thanking her for convincing our brothers from the Arabic Gulf Council to include (inaudible) in their conference tomorrow in Bahrain. And we gave her an update about Iraq and also, before me, Prime Minister Maliki gave her an update about what’s happening in Iraq. And we told her that we are living the Iraqi political spring.
7 March 2008
The United Nations envoy to Iraq has met with senior Turkish Government officials to discuss relations between the two neighbouring countries.
April 2, 2008
Democratic Society Party (DTP) parliamentary group leader Ahmet Türk has said the appeal to disband the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) is a product of a clash among forces within the state.
28 May 2008, Wednesday | TODAY'S ZAMAN ANKARA
The Democratic Society Party (DTP) received a blow from within yesterday as the chairman of the party's parliamentary group, Ahmet Türk, resigned from his post.
January 25, 2008 | By SABRINA TAVERNISE
IZMIR, Turkey — When Atilla Yayla, a maverick political science professor, offered a mild criticism of Turkey’s first years as a country, his remarks unleashed a torrent of abuse.
