At last, an Iraq oil rush delivers $15B ...



February 3, 2008 | By MARTIN FLETCHER

The gaunt 52-year-old Iraqi army private stands on top of a rudimentary guard post fashioned from huge, sand-filled hessian sacks, brandishing a rifle.


  

Publisher Sentenced For Using The Word “Kurd”



Oct 30, 2008

İstanbul -- The court sentenced publisher Ali Rıza Vural of Doz Publishing to “doing propaganda work for the Kurdish Workers Party” by publishing Hasan Bildirici’s novel that used the words “Kurd” and “Kurdish People.”


  

Ten thousand gather in Kurdish area to call for peace


DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, Nov 13 (AFP) - 12h07 - More than 10,000 people gathered Sunday in the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir to call for a peaceful solution to the region's Kurdish rebellion.


  

Turkish army brushes aside truce, vows to crush Kurdish rebels


ANKARA, Aug 23 (AFP) - 19h05 - The Turkish military vowed Wednesday to press on with its struggle against armed Kurdish rebels, brushing aside a unilateral one-month truce announced by the militants after several months of increased violence.

  

Judge Tosses Saddam Lawyer From Court



By SINAN SALAHEDDIN
The Associated Press - Monday, May 22, 2006; 5:58 PM

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Guards pulled the sole woman on Saddam Hussein's defense team from the court Monday after she had a shouting match with the chief judge, prompting her to throw off her lawyer's robe in rage.


  

Rice urges Iraq leaders to enlarge Sunni role




By Richard A. Oppel Jr. The New York Times
[International Herald Tribune-MONDAY, MAY 16, 2005 (PARIS)]

BAGHDAD Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice flew to Iraq on Sunday to urge its new leaders to greatly increase the involvement of Sunni Arabs in writing the Iraqi constitution amid the growing alarm of American officials who fear that a chance to bring dispossessed Sunni Arabs into the fold is slipping away. And she issued a stern warning to neighboring Syria, accusing it of harboring Iraqi terrorists and "standing in the way of the Iraqi people's desire for peace."

  

WAR IN IRAQ: Kurds in army stay loyal to militia


Posted on Wed, Dec. 28, 2005
Some troops prepare to protect territory, ethnic, religious interests
By Tom Lasseter
Knight Ridder Newspapers

KIRKUK, Iraq - Kurdish leaders have inserted more than 10,000 of their militia members into Iraqi army divisions in northern Iraq to lay the groundwork to swarm south, seize the oil-rich city of Kirkuk and possibly half of Mosul, Iraq's third-largest city, and secure the borders of an independent Kurdistan.


  

DTP letter spurs criminal investigation


ANKARA - Turkish Daily News
Tuesday, January 3, 2006

56 mayors in the Southeast face prosecution for their support of Roj TV

The Diyarbakır Prosecutor's Office has opened a criminal inquiry into a letter signed by 56 Democratic Society Party (DTP) mayors and sent to Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, asking him not to close down Roj TV, which broadcasts in Kurdish from Denmark.


  

Shiite Drops Bid to Keep Post as Premier


 
By KIRK SEMPLE and RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. - Published: April 21, 2006

BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 20 - Under intense domestic and American pressure, Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari dropped his bid to retain his job on Thursday, removing a major obstacle to forming a new government during a time of rising sectarian violence.


  

Rice makes visit to Kurdish north


 IRBIL, Iraq - By ANNE GEARAN, AP - Fri Oct 6, 8:07 AM ET - Convinced oil revenue is the long-term key to economic independence for a unified        Iraq, Secretary of State        Condoleezza Rice appealed Friday for cooperation from the autonomous and oil rich Kurdish north.