Friday, March 14, 2008 | GÖKSEL BOZKURT | ANKARA - TDN Parliament Bureau
The government’s investment program and social initiatives to address the Kurdish problem fail to satisfy the pro-Kurdish DTP in Parliament that calls for constitutional amendments, cultural measures and progressive amnesty.
Iraq’s oil minister on Sunday disputed the validity of deals signed between the Kurdish Regional Government and international oil companies, reportedly saying that the central government was not bound by the investment contracts.
February 26, 2008 | By Aliza Marcus and Andrew Apostolou
ALIZA MARCUS AND ANDREW APOSTOLOU
THE CRISIS between Turkey and Iraq, with the United States playing the uneasy role of mediator and friend to both, has escalated with the Turkish land operation launched Feb. 22. Following last fall's spate of attacks inside Turkey by the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, the Bush administration gave Turkey intelligence to facilitate air strikes against key PKK bases in remote Iraqi Kurdish mountains. Washington hoped this would prevent any Turkish military offensive inside Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraq's most stable region and the PKK's unwilling host. This policy has clearly failed.
Wednesday, December 5, 2007 | By Gareth Jenkins
Evidence presented to the court during the trial of five youths accused of killing three Christians in the southeastern town of Malatya earlier this year have raised questions about the involvement of state officials in the murder.
January 3, 2007 / By Peter W. Galbraith
IN HIS FINAL minutes, one of Saddam Hussein's executioners shouted, "Go to hell, Saddam." The condemned man replied dryly, "You mean the Iraq that is today." After his body dropped through the trap door, the assembled witnesses chanted Shi'ite slogans.
Sat December 1, 2007
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) -- The Turkish military said Saturday it attacked 50 to 60 Kurdish rebels inside Iraqi territory, inflicting "significant losses."
28 january 2006
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein's cousin told a court trying him for genocide on Sunday he had ordered Kurdish villages cleared in the 1988 "Anfal" campaign but insisted he was right to do so and had nothing to apologize for.
July 16, 2007
IRBIL, Iraq, July 16 (UPI) -- The premier of Iraq's Kurdish region is urging the federal government to make headway on a stalled oil law, claiming "unauthorized" changes were made to it.
Monday, 16 July 2007
A convoy of cars snakes its way through a wheat field. Crammed inside are hundreds of mourners heading for the wake of the latest person to die in more than 20 years of conflict.
