Saturday, July 12, 2008 | Chris Cobb

Our experiences with multiculturalism, federalism, power sharing, just a few of the role models, Iraqi minister says.

23.07.2008

Newly elected Democratic Society Party (DTP) Chairman Ahmet Türk criticized the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) for its stance over the Ergenekon investigation, at a meeting of the DTP parliamentary group yesterday.

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Mr. Zebari's Message

SEN. BARACK OBAMA told Iraq's foreign minister this week that he plans to visit the country between now and the presidential election. We think that's a good thing, not because Sen. John McCain has been prodding the candidate to do it but because it will give Mr. Obama an opportunity to refresh his badly outdated plan for Iraq. To do that, the Democrat needs to listen more to dedicated Iraqi leaders like Hoshyar Zebari, the foreign minister -- who, it seems, didn't hold back during their telephone conversation.

By Najmaldin Karim
Special to washingtonpost.com
Saturday, December 2, 2006; 12:00 AM

The media are building up the forthcoming report of the Iraq Study Group, led by former Secretary of State James Baker, and former Democratic Congressman, Lee Hamilton, as the solution to America's problems in Iraq.

With Gaza under the sway of Hamas, Lebanon paralyzed, and Iraq near collapse, the Middle East has never looked more perilous. But if the United States doesn’t move to defuse the dangerous situation in Iraqi Kurdistan fast, Washington could find itself with yet another ticking time bomb.

March-April 2008 | By Stephen Biddle

IRAQ'S PROGNOSIS is better today than it has been for a long time. An end to major violence, and with it a major reduction in the risk of a wider war and the human cost of further bloodshed, is now a real possibility. But to realize this potential won't be cheap or easy. And it won't produce Eden on the Euphrates. A stable Iraq would probably look more like Bosnia or Kosovo than Japan or Germany.

 Wednesday, May 03, 2006
 BAGHDAD, Iraq  — The Iraqi government is using diplomacy to try to stop Iranian forces from shelling Kurdish rebel positions in the north and does not expect an incursion by ground forces, the foreign minister said Wednesday.

Friday 30 September 2005

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has accused Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari of violating laws and not implementing articles of a joint charter signed between the Kurdistan alliance and the Iraqi coalition.

July 5, 2007
Analysis by Jacques N. Couvas

ANKARA, Jul 5 (IPS) - The button of the stopwatch counting down the invasion of Northern Iraq by the Turkish army was probably pressed on Tuesday, at an impromptu meeting between Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.