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.
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.
Saturday, 23 February 2008 | By Patrick Cockburn
Up to 10,000 Turkish troops launch an incursion which threatens to destabilise the country's only peaceful region.
April 28, 2008
A long-awaited meeting between Turkish officials and Nechirvan Barzani, the prime minister of northern Iraq's largely autonomous regional Kurdish administration, will take place before the end of this spring, a high-level Turkish official has said.
By Dan Murphy, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
Mon Apr 24, 4:00 AM ET
BAGHDAD - Four months after Iraq voted, the government's top posts were named by Parliament this weekend. The winners called for an end to sectarian divisions and a commitment to unity that has proved so elusive since Saddam Hussein fell.
Friday, May 2, 2008
ANKARA - A Turkish delegation comprised of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's chief policy advisor and Turkey's special envoy for Iraq departed for Baghdad yesterday for meetings with central Iraqi government officials as well as Iraqi Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani.
4 March 2008 | By Elitsa Vucheva
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – The EU on Monday urged Turkey to increase the pace of its human rights reforms, as well as to improve the situation of the country's Kurdish minority.
