STRASBOURG, May 31 (AFP) - 1h30 - The European court of human rights condemned Turkey on Tuesday for its treatment of three men and a woman detained and jailed in the 1990s.

  


Thursday, February 14, 2008 | Cengiz ÇANDAR

The more we postpone to invite Talabani to Turkey and therefore delay talks about a ‘grand bargain,’ the more the critical foreign policy issue of Kirkuk will turn into a mess


  


Wednesday, January 9, 2008 | GÖKSEL BOZKURT | ANKARA TDN Parliamentary Bureau

The new proposal replaces the term “Turkishness” with “Turkish Nation” and the term “Republic” with “Turkish Republic" but, delayed again, will now be put before Parliament next week


  

QAMISHLI, Syria, June 2 (AFP) - 23h29 - Syria's official press Thursday named five men whom the authorities have blamed for the murder of a Kurdish Muslim religious leader, but Kurdish groups and the victim's family were sceptical.

  


June 28, 2007 | By Peter W. Galbraith, PETER W. GALBRAITH, author of "The End of Iraq," was on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff in the 1980s and 1990s, with responsibility for Iraq.

The slaughter of Kurds under Saddam Hussein was official government policy, not the act of a rogue general.


  

Tue Feb 15, 2005 08:37 AM ET
By Seb Walker
ARBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - Jalal Talabani, the Iraqi Kurdish leader positioned to become the country's next president, crowned a lifelong struggle for Kurdish rights with huge success in the country's historic Jan. 30 election.

  


From the Los Angeles Times
By Tracy Wilkinson
Times Staff Writer

May 30, 2006

BATMAN, Turkey — Huseyin Kalkan, the mayor of Batman, pointed to the bullet holes in the pale-yellow wall of his office, little indentations just above the framed photograph of a lavender cactus blossom.


  


20 December 2007 | By Damien McElroy in Irbil

Kurdish leaders in northern Iraq have threatened to withdraw support from the Baghdad government if demands for federal power-sharing and a fair share of oil wealth are not met.


  


December 13th 2007 | BAGHDAD, BASRA AND FALLUJA

The surge of American troops has dramatically reduced violence. But Iraq's politicians may still squander an obvious chance for reconciliation


  

Dexter Filkins The New York Times - Published: June 25, 2006

Let it break up. It seems a simple enough solution.

Iraq's three main groups - the Shiite Arabs, the Sunni Arabs and the Kurds - are killing each other with greater ferocity than ever, and the Americans are playing referee.