March 26, 2008 | Istanbul | By MUSTAFA AKYOL

Who would you expect to be zealous enemies of "moderate Islam"? Islamic fundamentalists? You bet. From Osama bin Laden & Co. to less violent but equally fanatic groups, Islamist militants abhor their co-religionists who reject tyranny and violence in the name of God. But they are not alone. In this part of the world, there is another group that holds a totally opposite worldview but shares a similar hatred of moderate Islam: Turkey's secular fundamentalists.


  


July 21, 2007 | Doug Saunders | Read Bio | Latest Columns

DIYARBAKIR, TURKEY -- Like most Kurds here in southeastern Turkey, Abdurrahman Oguz has never had an easy time with the Turkish government.


  


September 17, 2007 (RFE/RL)

Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari says that relations with Iran have been hurt by Tehran's shelling of areas in Kurdish-administered northern Iraq and its support for anti-coalition militants in the south. RFE/RL correspondent Charles Recknagel spoke with Zebari about Iran-Iraq relations during the minister's visit today to RFE/RL in Prague.


  


Tuesday, December 18, 2007 | By Ann Scott Tyson and Robin Wright | Washington Post Staff Writers

Intelligence Role Could Complicate Diplomacy

The United States is providing Turkey with real-time intelligence that has helped the Turkish military target a series of attacks this month against Kurdish separatists holed up in northern Iraq, including a large airstrike on Sunday, according to Pentagon officials.


  


Tuesday, March 4, 2008 | SERKAN DEMİRTAŞ

ANKARA- Turkey's top general said the military will continue to launch cross-border operations into northern Iraq to hunt down outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) terrorists when needed.


  

By Dexter Filkins The New York Times - MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 2005


Info BAGHDAD Iraqi leaders trying to complete a new constitution moved toward deals on such contentious issues as Shiite autonomy, sharing oil revenues and Kurdish self-rule. But as they progressed on those fronts, a tentative agreement that would have given Islam an expanded role in the state and in family disputes appeared to unravel.

  


Article published Jul 5, 2007

By Kosrat Rasool Ali - A fresh look at U.S. policy toward Iraq is vital, especially after the long time that elapsed since the liberation of Iraq and the lack of tangible progress and the critical state of affairs that Iraq has reached.


  

By Mariam Karouny BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's parliament elected Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani as the country's new president on Wednesday, breaking a political impasse and paving the way for a new government more than nine weeks after historic elections.


  


By Charles Krauthammer
Friday, March 10, 2006; A19

Lost amid the news of all the bloodletting in Iraq is an important political development: The Kurds have switched sides. In the first parliament after the first set of elections, they allied themselves with the Shiite slate to produce the current Shiite-dominated government led by Ibrahim al-Jafari.


  

By SINAN SALAHEDDIN, Associated Press Writer
Tue Mar 7, 10:31 AM ET

Iraq's president postponed a decision Tuesday on when to call the new parliament into session after the dominant Shiite alliance requested a delay to resolve a deadlock over the composition of the government.