Istanbul blast amid Kurd tension



Friday, 31 March 2006
A bomb blast has killed one person and injured 13 others near a bus stop in Turkey's biggest city of Istanbul.

A Kurdish separatist group, the TAK, said it carried out the attack in response to recent violence in the mainly Kurdish south-east of Turkey.


  

U.S. promises Turkey to fight against PKK


 Xinhua - Editor: Wang Yan - ANKARA, July 23

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has telephoned Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul and promised to do whatever necessary to fight against the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK), the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported on Sunday.

  

Kurd-Shiite split widens


President calls for minister to step aside
   
By Yahya Barzanji
The Associated Press - October 3, 2005

KIRKUK · Iraq's Kurdish president called on the country's Shiite prime minister to step down, the spokesman for the president's party said Sunday, escalating a political split between the two factions that make up the government.


  

A Real Kurdish Solution


 | Guest Voice
5 March 2008 | Dr. Günes Murat Tezcür

Few places symbolize state power and security challenges more than the border zone between Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan. Whether this border will blossom with commerce and cultural exchange or become a transit point for tanks and militants has great implications for the future of the Middle East and the relationship between the Muslim world and the West.


  

Saddam commanders tell of Kurd campaign


The Associated Press, The New York Times
TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2006

BAGHDAD - Two defendants in the second trial of Saddam Hussein testified Tuesday that Iraqi troops had attacked Iranian forces and allied Kurdish guerrillas in northern Iraq, but had avoided targeting civilians.

  

Turkey's Kurds still prepared to fight



By Scott Peterson, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
Mon Jul 9, 4:00 AM ET

Sultan Koyun says she cries as much for fallen Turkish soldiers as for killed militants of the Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK). For the first half of this story, published June 6, click here.


  

Turkey weighs PKK raid response



Monday, October 22, 2007

The Turkish government is weighing calls for action against international pressure for restraint, after Kurdish separatist fighters killed 17 Turkish soldiers and captured several more.


  

Turkish paramilitary officer killed in clashes with rebel Kurds


DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, July 31 (AFP) - 11h35 - A member of the Turkish paramilitary forces in the predominantly Kurdish region of southeast Turkey was killed early Sunday in clashes with rebels of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), local security sources said.

  

No timetable for US troop withdrawal: Talabani


 
[Reuters - September 13, 2005] - Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said on Tuesday that Iraq will not set a timetable for a withdrawal of U.S. troops, backing away from his published remarks that the United States could withdraw as many as 50,000 troops by the end of the year.

  

Iraq's Kurdish parliament holds first session


BAGHDAD, June 4 (AFP) - 14h56 - Iraq's Kurdish regional parliament held its first session on Saturday with the Iraqi president urging the Kurds to set an example of unity to the nation torn by sectarian strife.