Wednesday, 6 February 2008 | by Randy Fabi
The Kurdistan regional government (KRG) said on Tuesday it will continue to sign contracts with oil companies despite threats from Baghdad to cut exports due to a dispute over their legality.
Thursday, August 24, 2006 / ANKARA - The Turkish capital has dismissed the comments made by a top U.S. adviser to Iraqi Kurdish leaders regarding Turkey and the “reality” of an independent Kurdish state in northern Iraq.
Wednesday, December 19, 2007 | By Sudarsan Raghavan and Ellen Knickmeyer
Operation Overshadows Rice Visit to Baghdad
BAGHDAD - Several hundred Turkish troops crossed into northern Iraq on Tuesday and engaged in clashes with Kurdish guerrillas, Turkish military officials said, as U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made an unannounced visit to Iraq to tout security gains.
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."
