Tuesday, August 26, 2008 | Robert Tait in Istanbul
A court in Turkey has lifted a ban on YouTube, the video sharing website, after hundreds of sites voluntarily blocked themselves in protest at growing internet censorship.
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
Public Statement
AI Index: MDE 13/010/2005 (Public) - News Service No: 052 - 3 March 2005
Amnesty International is alarmed at reports that human rights defenders in Sanandaj, Iranian Kordestan, working on children and women's rights are facing threats in connection with their human rights work. It is feared that such harassment may increase towards International Women's Day on 8 March.
October 11, 2007
If Turkey’s Army is to be taken at face value, it has 140,000 troops and substantial detachments of heavy armour massed along the country’s southeastern border. It has the Government’s approval in principle for cross-border incursions into Kurdish Iraq.
Monday, 21 August 2006
Ex-Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has gone on trial again in Baghdad - this time in connection with an anti-Kurdish offensive in 1987 and 1988.
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.
