ANKARA, June 3 (AFP) - 11h44 - Jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan does not want to be retried in Turkey, where he believes he cannot be judged fairly, one of his attorneys told AFP Friday.

  

DAMASCUS, Sept 15 (AFP) - 19h30 - A Syrian Kurdish woman was beaten to death by police Thursday during clashes as police demolished illegally built housing outside Damascus, a rights activist and a Kurdish leader said.

  


March 14, 2008 | BY ELI LAKE - Staff Reporter of the Sun

WASHINGTON —" A Pentagon review of about 600,000 documents captured in the Iraq war attests to Saddam Hussein's willingness to use terrorism to target Americans and work closely with jihadist organizations throughout the Middle East.


  


Saturday, March 8, 2008 | By Joshua Partlow | In Rugged N. Iraq, Guerrillas Forge a Unity Based on Hardship and Defiance

ZAP VALLEY, Iraq -- On the day the Turkish soldiers withdrew from Iraq, 40 Kurdish guerrillas convened to bury five of their dead.


  


Saturday, March 22 2008

At least 100 people were injured as security forces used tear gas and water cannons to disperse Kurdish spring festival celebrations in a number of Turkish cities.


  


Saturday, March 22, 2008 | David Frum

Five years later, the debate over the Iraq war rages as hot as when it began. We have never ceased looking over our shoulders. We have attempted to fight our way forward with our eyes fixed backward.


  


5 March 2008

Three members of European Parliament have concurred that the new Turkish Constitution should not include the concept of "Turkishness" and should focus instead on citizenship without making distinctions over ethnicity.


  


Apr 3rd 2008 | ISTANBUL

The constitutional court takes on Turkey's ruling party

The long battle between Turkey's mildly Islamist ruling party and its fiercely secular establishment is coming to a climax. The outcome could decide the country's future direction, and in particular its hopes of one day joining the European Union.


  

By Michael Kuser [The Financial Times - Published: August 12 2005]

The Turkish governmentis turning its attention once again to its long fight with Kurdish militants, after devoting much of its energy during the past two years to the start of accession talks to the European Union.

  


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