March 12, 2008 | By SABRINA TAVERNISE
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s government is planning a broad series of investments worth as much as $12 billion in the country’s largely Kurdish southeast, in a new economic effort intended to create jobs and draw young men away from militancy, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.
The Sunday Times July 16, 2006 
Thursday, February 28, 2008 | By Ellen Knickmeyer | Washington Post Foreign Service
Did Incursion Just Happen to Coincide With Easing of Ban on Head Scarves?
ANKARA, Turkey, Feb. 27 -- Turkey's military offensive in northern Iraq has clear objectives: attack Kurdish separatist guerrillas in their mountain bases, destroy their camps and weapons caches, and show them they can be pursued anywhere, anytime.
Friday, March 7, 2008 | Mehmet Ali Birand
Some things are changing in Turkey. I am sure it has come to your attention, too. We're witnessing some unusual developments.
June 8, 2007
Absolutely the last thing Iraq needs right now is to have thousands of Turkish troops pour across the border into the country’s one relatively peaceful region - the Kurdish-administered northeast. Turkey’s government needs to know that it will reap nothing but disaster if that happens.
BAGHDAD, Oct 22 (AFP) - 21h28 - ArabLeague chief Amr Mussa made two landmark visits in Iraq Saturday toraise support for a proposed national reconciliation conference, whilethe toll of US deaths grew to nearly 2,000.
April 29, 2008
When Sen. Barack Obama questioned Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker on April 8, he expressed the conviction that the United States would find a solution for Iraq only when talking with that country's neighbors, including Iran. Mr. Obama may be right — but not for the reason he seems to think.
March 28, 2008 | The Associated Press
WASHINGTON: The United States condemned on Thursday an attack by Syrian security forces on Syrian Kurds celebrating the Kurdish new year. Three Kurds were reported killed and five wounded in the March 20 incident.
