KIRKUK, Iraq, Feb 6 (AFP) - 15h51 - Turkmen and Arab parties in the crucial Iraqi oil city of Kirkuk on Sunday accused majority Kurds of fixing the result of provincial elections, adding to tensions in the region.
Official results for the election, held the same day as Iraq's historic national vote on January 30, have not yet been released.
But Turkmen and Arab parties in the city, a longstanding ethnic tinderbox, say Kurds from other parts of the country flooded Kirkuk on election day to inflate the community's vote.
08/04/2005 (KurdishMedia) IWPR -By Kamran Al-Karadaghi in London (ICR No. 120, 07-Apr-05)
The debate over the new constitution could turn into the real “mother of all battles”. The National Assembly this week made history more than once. Members chose a Kurd as the first ever democratically elected president of the country.
[AP - 6 August 2005] BAGHDAD - Sunni members of the committee drafting Iraq’s new constitution rejected Kurdish demands for a federal state, saying it cannot be implemented under foreign military occupation and an unstable security situation.
ANKARA, Aug 28 (AFP) - 22h00 - A young man died in hospital after being shot during clashes Sunday, in southeastern Turkey, between police and demonstrators trying to claim the bodies of six Kurdish separatist rebels killed in fighting earlier this week, the Anatolia news agency reported.
January 16, 2007
By TONY KARON
As if the Bush Administration didn't have a sufficiently tough challenge in securing Iraq in the face of insurgency and sectarian conflict, it has now added curbing Iran to its to-do list.
February 21, 2008 | By Ahmad Al-Khaled, Staff writer
KUWAIT: Kurdish Regional Government President Masoud Barzani yesterday addressed the question of Kurdish independence saying, "As long as Iraq is abiding by the current constitution, we are bound by a united Iraq." "We are a major and important part of the government of Iraq and we are not in opposition. It is natural to have differences of opinion but on the core national and strategic issues, we are part of the state and have an understanding with the federal government," said Barzani of the sometimes a
t odds Kurdistan capital of Erbil and the federal capital Baghdad.
Saturday 19 January 2008 | By Hewa Aziz
Sulaymaniyah, Asharq Al-Awsat- Despite the passage of 17 years since the liberation of the city of Sulaymaniyeh and the whole Iraqi Kurdistan region following the 1990-1991 uprisings against the former Iraqi Baathist regime, the traces of terror and suffering still remain in attestation of the brutality of the deposed regime.
17 January 2008
Erbil, Kurdistan-Iraq (KRG.org). A bipartisan delegation of six members of the US House of Representatives visited the Kurdistan Region in Iraq yesterday for meetings with Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) officials.
13 September 2007 | By Brian Padden
Irbil- The Kurdish region of Iraq is still coming to terms with the cultural and political ramifications of the brutal honor killing of a 17-year-old Yazidi girl in April. Men in her village killed the girl because she was in love with a Muslim boy.
LAST UPDATE: 5/15/2005 10:44:02 AM
United Press International
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a surprise trip to Iraq Sunday -- her first visit to that nation -- to meet with government officials.
