Zaman- Feb 4, 2005-Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) leader Massoud Barzani has said it is unacceptable for Turkey to declaring Kirkuk as a "red line". Turkey should not interfere with Iraq's internal affairs, Barzani said: "It is our very natural right to have a state. This fact should be seen from now on and accepted."
BAGHDAD, June 20 (AFP) - 15h33 - Iraq's Kurdish regional president Massoud Barzani said on Monday that the entire country should be called the Federal Republic of Iraq and that name inscribed in a constitution now under discussion.
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.
