Wednesday, March 12, 2008 | ANKARA
The pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) has complained of unequal treatment in Parliament, arguing that double standards have been applied to its 20 deputies over the immunity enjoyed by parliamentarians.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Diyarbakır nongovernmental organizations reiterate their demands for broader cultural rights at the presidential palace. Education and public services in a mother tongue were among the expectations of NGOs from main opposition leader Deniz Baykal and the prime minister, with varying results
Thuesday June 26, 2007 | By Shamal Aqrawi
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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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. |