July 26, 2007 | Featuring Soner Cagaptay, Matthew Bryza, and Alan Makovsky

On July 23, 2007, Soner Cagaptay, Matthew Bryza, and Alan Makovsky addressed a Policy Forum at The Washington Institute. Dr. Cagaptay is a senior fellow and director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute. Mr. Bryza is deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs. Mr. Makovsky is a senior staff member with the House Committee on International Relations.


  


December 02, 2007 | By Abdel Hamid Zebari

ARBIL, Iraq (AFP) A leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) acknowledged on Sunday that rebel fighters had come under attack by Turkish helicopters inside Iraq but insisted they had suffered no casualties.


  


Friday August 15 2008 | Robert Tait in Istanbul

Ahmadinejad snubbed by breakdown of energy sale
Aim of president's visit thwarted by intervention

Turkey delivered a humiliating snub to Iran's visiting president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, yesterday by backing out of a lucrative energy deal under pressure from the US government, which feared it would enhance Iranian nuclear ambitions.


  


December 19th 2007 | ANKARA | From The Economist print edition

Raids across the border

AS IF Iraq did not have enough problems of its own. On December 16th Turkish aircraft bombed what they said were Kurdish rebel positions deep inside northern Iraq. It was one of the biggest cross-border air strikes in recent years and was followed by an incursion by about 300 Turkish troops. They were said to be lightly armed, and advanced only 3km (1.9 miles) into Iraq. But the two actions mark a big escalation of the traditional hostilities.


  


Friday, December. 28, 2007 | By Charles Crain/Baghdad

For close to two weeks, Turkey has been targeting the guerrillas of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) inside Iraqi territory.


  


June 7, 2007 | By Najmaldin O. Karim is the president of the Washington Kurdish Institute.

Postponing a vote on making the city part of Kurdistan could imperil the U.S. mission in Iraq.

EVEN AS THE battle for Baghdad continues to rage, the United States must begin considering the future of another Iraqi city: Kirkuk.


  


February 8, 2008 | Op-Ed Contributor | By NOAH FELDMAN | Cambridge, Mass

THE West doesn’t know quite what to think of Turkey’s Islamic-oriented ruling party: does it envision a liberal, European future for Turkey or an Islamist one? A vote this week on the seemingly minor issue of whether head scarves should be allowed at universities will help us begin to answer that question.


  

ISTANBUL, April 7 (AFP) - 17h02 - Turkey will not bow to European Union pressure to recognize the World War I killings of Armenians as genocide as a condition for joining the EU, Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer said Thursday.

  


April 10, 2008 | İstanbul

A Turkish court has sentenced Kurdish politician Leyla Zana to two years in prison for spreading propaganda of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).


  

Tuesday, August 26, 2008 | Turkish Press Scanner

AKŞAM | Turkey has rejected a Kurdish cola brand's request for patent registration in Turkey, reported daily Akşam yesterday.