kurdistan
is a
land of spring flowers and waving fields of wheat, of rushing
streams and sudden perilous gorges, of hidden caves and barren
rock faces. Above all, it is a land where the rhythm of life is
defined by the relationship between the people and the mountains.
One range after another, the peaks stretch in all directions as
far as the eye can travel, the highest of them capped year-round
by snow.
... exclude arms,"
according to the Firat news agency, which is close to
the group. Though it proposes trying to solve the Kurdish
question peacefully, ...
New Kurdish expansion is for the Northern Iraq
Sabah, Turkey
CHP leader Deniz Baykal clarified the issue of
"Kurdish expansion" emphasizing that it is not possible
to quit the military operation. ...
PKK fighter who wants to end killing
Times Online, UK
With her Kalashnikov folded in half to stop it
dragging on the ground and ammunition strapped around her tiny
waist, Zerya was 12 when she became a Kurdish...
Kurdish rebels say they are open to laying down arms in
a ...
San Diego Union Tribune, United
States
By Selcan Hacaoglu AP ANKARA, Turkey – A
Kurdish guerrilla group whose northern Iraq bases Turkey
has threatened to attack said Friday it was “open” to
First rule for PKK rebels: Make war, not love
Peninsula On-line, Qatar
For their transgression they were
unceremoniously expelled from the group which has been
fighting for Kurdish self-rule in southeast Turkey
since 1984
Iranian court upholds death for Kurd journalist
Peninsula On-line, Qatar
tehran • Iran’s supreme court has upheld a
death sentence against one Kurdish journalist on
espionage charges but overturned that against another
US denies deal as nine Iranians freed
Scotsman, United Kingdom
NINE Iranians held in Iraq have been released
by the US military, signalling a possible change in tone
between the bitter rivals. ...
US releases 9 Iranians in Iraq
Boston Globe, United States
Both offices -- in Iraq's semiautonomous
Kurdish zone -- reopened Tuesday as Iranian consulates. A
US military statement issued Friday said the nine
Evren regrets ban on public use of Kurdish language
Today's Zaman, Turkey
Leader of the coup d'état in September 1980
and seventh President of Turkey Kenan Evren has said it was a
mistake to ban the public use of the Kurdish..
Iraq's Kurdish Leader in a Bind
AINA, CA
Erbil, Iraq -- Iraq's Kurdish leaders
are desperate to forestall--or at least to minimise--Turkey's
threatened assault against the guerrillas of the ...
1st AD commander sees progress in northern Iraq
Stars and Stripes, DC
Turkey has threatened to send troops into
Kurdistan to clean out Kurdish rebels who have staged
cross-border attacks. Hertling, who served as assistant 1st
...
Kurds optimistic about peaceful resolution of crisis
Gulf News, United Arab
Emirates
Thousands of Iraqi Kurdish villages
close to the Iraqi-Turkish borders have been threatened under
the pretext of stopping the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)
...
POLITICS-US: New Crises Sap Bush's War on Terror
IPS, Italy
Most analysts believe that a major Turkish
incursion, if it occurs, will likely spur resistance by Iraqi
Kurdish militias, the pesh merga, ...
Newly trained Haitian police target gangs
United Press International -
By HIBA DAWOOD UPI Correspondent The
Kurdish Al Ahali Newspaper carried an editorial today
entitled "The US Policy Towards the Kurds: Between Yesterday
and ...
Official urges human-centered security
United Press International
By HIBA DAWOOD UPI Correspondent The
Kurdish Al Ahali Newspaper carried an editorial today
entitled "The US Policy Towards the Kurds: Between Yesterday
and ...
Joint Press Conference with Secretary Gates and Minister of
...
US Department of Defense (press
release), DC
And also Iraq had certain operations against
the Kurdish people. They used a weapon of mass
destruction, killing a number of people. Considering these
facts .
More Deaths and Rejection to War in Iraq
Prensa Latina, Cuba
Iraqi police said a car bomb set off near the
Kurdish Democratic Party offices killed one and injured
five police in Mosul. Meanwhile, A CNN TV poll found ...
TURKEY IS WINNING THE BATTLE, BUT CAN IT WIN THE WAR?
EurasiaNet, NY
The southeast is now free of military law,
Kurdish names are legal, Kurdish broadcasting is
permitted for one hour a day, and, for the first time in a
...
Iran Reopens Kurdish Iraq Mission
Prensa Latina, Cuba
Teheran, Nov 6 (Prensa Latina) The Iranian
consulate in the Iraqi city of Erbil was reopened Tuesday by
Iranian ambassador in Baghdad Hasan Kazemi Qomi and ..
EU positive on Balkan entry bids
BBC News, UK -
10 hours ago
Tensions have soared between Turkey and the
Kurds after a series of attacks on Turkish troops by
Kurdish rebels operating out of Iraq.
Other Iraq developments
Minneapolis Star Tribune
(subscription), MN - 9 minutes ago
Tens of thousands of Turkish troops were
poised Tuesday on the border with Iraq awaiting the order to
attack Kurdish fighters, and President Abdullah Gul
Local Kurds anxious about Turkish intent
Fort Worth Star Telegram, TX
Dargali is among the hundreds, likely
thousands, of Kurdish-Americans in North Texas who are
worried about what will happen to their homeland in northern
...
Iraq says threat of major Turkish incursion less
Reuters ... incursion to crush the PKK after
Baghdad took "tangible and serious measures" against the
Kurdish rebel group, Iraq's foreign minister said on
Tuesday. ...
Turkish invasion threat recedes
New Zealand Herald, New
Zealand ... States would do everything it could
to stop the PKK Kurdish independence movement launching
cross-border attacks into Turkey from Iraqi Kurdistan. ...
Turkish PM says N.Iraq offensive planned: report
Reuters Canada, Canada
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister
Tayyip Erdogan said late on Monday that a military operation
against Kurdish guerrillas based in northern Iraq was
...
Ba’ath Party statement about Istanbul Conference
uruknet.info, Italy
The ethnic and sectarian ambitions of the two
Kurdish parties are behind escalation of the PKK
activities on the Kurdish borders… ...
Peace Rally in Ankara
Biamag, Turkey
Cities in the Kurdish-majority
areas or with a high percentage of Kurdish refugees
had responded well to the invitation. Engineers, teachers,
workers ...
Winter might be Turkey's worst foe in Iraq
Lake Expo, MO
Turkey has been threatening to send its
military into northern Iraq in pursuit of guerrillas from
the Kurdistan Workers' Party, known by its Kurdish...
In Iraqi Kurdistan, sympathy for the PKK
Belleville News Democrat,
USA
He's in plain view of a checkpoint atop a
nearby bluff, manned by a member of the peshmerga, the
regional militia of the Kurdish Regional Government,
...
PKK releases captured Turkish soldiers
Alsumaria, Iraq
In his turn, head of the region’s
endowment Fouad Hussein denied any deal made in return of
the soldiers’ release, saying that Kurdish
officials have acted
Families flee homes near Turkish border
IRINnews.org, NY
Sergevaz Lafaw, a Kurdish rebel
commander of the PKK, told IRIN: “Some families have been
forced out of their homes because their residences are of
.
Bush, Turkish prime minister to discuss Kurdish rebels
WREG, TN ... (REH'-jehp TY'-ihp UR'-doh-wahn)
not to send his forces into northern Iraq to hunt down
Kurdish rebels, even as rebels intensify cross-border
attacks. .
Kurdish rebels release eight Turkish troops
Hindustan Times, India
The Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) early
on Sunday released eight Turkish soldiers taken hostage during
an ambush in south-east Turkey last month, ...
Thousands march for a peaceful solution to Kurdish
question
Turkish Daily News (subscription), Turkey
Thousands on Saturday gathered in Ankara to
push the government to find a democratic solution to
Kurdish problem at a time when Ankara is threatening Iraqi
...
Ethnic Turks in Brussels protest against Kurdish rebel
group
International Herald
Tribune, France - 4 hours ago
AP BRUSSELS, Belgium: About 2000 ethnic Turks
demonstrated in front of European Union headquarters on
Saturday to protest recent Kurdish rebel attacks on
...
Iraqi PM vows to fight against Kurdish groups
Al-Bawaba, Jordan ... under intense pressure from Turkey
and the United States for his government to help put an end to
attacks from Kurdish fighters based in northern Iraq.
...
Iran Soldier Killed by Kurdish Rebels is Buried
Javno.hr, Croatia
Iraq said on Saturday it was ready to hunt
down and arrest Kurdish guerrilla leaders responsible
for cross-border raids into Turkey. ...
Iraqi authorities close main office of Kurdish
political party ...
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung), Austria
Security officials first shut the party's
office in Irbil, a northern Iraqi city that serves as capital
to the government of Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish
...
Roots of the Kurdish struggle run deep
Asia Times Online, Hong Kong -
Last year, Iran launched operations into Iraqi
territory to track down members of the PKK operating on the
Iranian-Iraqi border, arresting 40 Kurdish rebels
Double-crossing in KurdistanAsia Times Online
Iraq pledges to fight Kurdish rebels
KGAN, IA
Turkish troops are massed along the border of
northern Iraq, prepared to invade sanctuaries used by
Kurdish rebels for attacks in Turkey. ...
Looking ahead
USA Today
Amid rising tensions with Kurdish
rebels, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrives in
Washington late tonight for consultations. ...
Bush broke promises to Turkey, says former envoy
uruknet.info, Italy
Neither the US-backed Iraqi government nor the
semiautonomous Kurdish regional government has shown
any inclination to go after the group. ...
Oil rises on economy, Iran sanctions
BusinessWeek
Also supporting prices Friday, Secretary of
State Condoleezza Rice told Turkish officials the US views
Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq as a "common ...
Anbar Officials: US Should Stay
The Associated Press ... distribute the nation's oil
revenues and defend Iraq's borders; Iraq's largest petroleum
deposits are found in the Kurdish north and Shiite
south. ...
Rice to Face Subpoena in Espionage Case
Journal Times, WI
Rice Friday said that Kurdish rebels
based in northern Iraq were a "common threat" to the US, Iraq
and Turkey, and she pledged an intensified effort by ...
Bush Gives Upbeat Iraq War Assessment
NewsNet5.com, OH ... equally distribute the nation's oil
revenues and defend Iraq's borders; Iraq's largest petroleum
deposits are found in the Kurdish north and Shiite
south.
Kurdish PM wants elections law reconsidered
Kurdish Aspect, CO
Each Kurdish candidate needed 50000
votes while other candidates in central and southern Iraq
needed only 40000 votes. This way the Kurds obtained only 53
...
Turkey bombs Kurdish rebels in southeast
Canada.com, Canada
SIRNAK, Turkey (Reuters) - Helicopter
gunships bombed Kurdish rebel positions in southeast
Turkey on Monday and the government flexed its military
muscle ...
Iraqi Kurdish leader defies Turkish invasion threat
Independent, UK
Mr Barzani is President of the Kurdistan
Regional Government, the autonomous Kurdish area in
northern Iraq which enjoys quasi-independence from Baghdad and
...
Iraqi Kurdish leader defies Turkish invasion threat
Independent, UK
Mr Barzani is President of the Kurdistan
Regional Government, the autonomous Kurdish area in
northern Iraq which enjoys quasi-independence from Baghdad and
...
Deciphering the PKK
Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey
To the contrary, American policy-makers
believe attacking the PKK in the Kandil Mountains will only
exacerbate the Kurdish problem in Turkey and jeopardize
...
The Greek Cypriot-PKK Connection
Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey
The latter actually is the founder of the
Kurdish Solidarity Committee (KSC) in Cyprus. When Apo --
the Kurdish terrorist leader Öcalan -- was captured by
...
Relations between Armenia and PKK Terrorism
Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey
Turkey will be abolish and a Kurdish
State will be formed. Armenians will hold good relations with
the Kurds and support their fight. ...
Turkey threatens incursions against Kurds
The Mercury, Australia
By Thomas Grove in Sirnak TURKISH Prime
Minister Tayyip Erdogan today threatened to order an incursion
into northern Iraq against Kurdish guerrillas after
...
US Crude Oil Strikes New Record at $92.40
CNBC, NJ
Turkey's attacks on Kurdish rebels have
also sparked worries of supply disruptions from northern Iraq.
There are also concerns over the potential wider ...
Is a new war in Iraq looming on the horizon?
PRESS TV, Iran
Formed in late 1970s, the PKK launched an
armed insurgency in 1984 in its quest for separating the
Kurdish regions from Turkey. In the 1990s, the group,
Turkey threatens an attack on Iraq
The Register-Guard, OR
By David Rising ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s top
military commander promised Saturday to make Iraq-based Kurdish
rebels “grieve with an intensity that they ...
Turkey: No occupation of northern Iraq
Earthtimes, UK
TEHRAN, Oct. 28 Turkey's foreign minister Sunday
said his country aims to stop attacks by Kurdish rebels but
has no interest in occupying northern Iraq.
Deadly car bomb strikes bus terminal
WANE, IN -
The terminal serves travelers to Iraq's Kurdish
region. The blast left several cars on fire, with black smoke
pouring from shops and panicked people running ...
Military option against Kurds still open, says Turkey
NewKerala.com, India
Teheran, Oct 28 : Turkey Sunday said a military
option was still on the table to deal with Iraq-based separatist
Kurdish rebels. The Turkish-Iraqi talks, ...
Eleven Sunni tribal chiefs abducted
NEWS.com.au, Australia
The Iraqi constitution stipulates that
longstanding Kurdish demands for the city to be
incorporated into their autonomous region in northern Iraq must be
..
Car bomb kills 7 in Iraq
Los Angeles Times, CA
Kirkuk, which has rich oil reserves, lies on the
border of the Kurdish region, and Kurds are hoping to annex
the city into their territory. ...
Blast injures three at demo against Kurdish
rebels
Khaleej Times, United
Arab Emirates
ANKARA - A blast Sunday at a
demonstration in northwest Turkey against Kurdish
rebel violence left three people slightly injured,
officials said. ...
Report: US Sponsoring Kurdish Guerilla Attacks
Inside Iran
Journal of Turkish
Weekly, Turkey
We speak with independent journalist
Reese Erlich about his report on Iranian Kurdish
guerillas based among their Kurdish bretheren in
northern Iraq. ...
Kurdish Poet nominated for UK Forward Poetry
Prize
Kurdish Aspect, CO
“An Ordinary Day”, a poem from Bells of
Speech (Ambit, 2006) by Kurdish poet Nazand
Begikhani has been selected and nominated for this year’s
UK Forward ...
The merry-go-round world of Philip Glass
Inside Bay Area, CA
And this whole issue of race - it's still the
issue of the world today, whether you're talking about
Kurdistan or Africa or India or America. ...
Moderates Talk the Talk
Washington Post, United States ... last weekend as they sat knee to knee
in an armored van for a half-hour trip up a desert mountain to
meet with Kurdistan President Mustafa Barzani. ...
Iran: Kouchner's Visit to Tehran Unimpeded
Fars News Agency, Iran ... local government of Kurdistan to
end the problem and release the Iranian businessman, Mahmoud
Farhadi, who is a member of an Iranian trade delegation. ...
WORLD ROUND-UP
The Brunei Times, Brunei
Darussalam
Turkish troops clashed with a group of
illegal Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) guerrillas and
killed four of them in Hakkari province near the Iraqi
border. ...
Iran: The victor in Iraq?
Aljazeera.com, UK
Iranian Kurdistan is seething with
discontent, and Iranian security forces have suppressed
large anti-regime demonstrations there. ...
05-09-2007
Letter from Iraqi Kurdistan
Kurdistan Regional
Government, Iraq
But, I soon learned, things are different in Iraqi
Kurdistan, and by the first evening I was walking the streets with
hardly a concern about violence of the ...
US dilemma: PEJAK is friend, PKK is terrorist
New Anatolian, Turkey
The Kurdistan Free Life Party (PEJAK) in return is
an off shoot of the PKK militants who are holed up in the northern
Iraqi Kurdish mountains. ...
War News for Tuesday, September 04, 2007
uruknet.info, Italy
#2: Gunmen killed two members of the Democratic
Party of Kurdistan (PDK) in two separate incidents on
Monday and Tuesday in Mosul, police said. ...
Five star luxury for northern Iraq
ArabianBusiness.com (press
release), United Arab Emirates ... in 2006 and the regional government is
building a new airport to handle 1.5 million, according to the
London-based Kurdistan Development Corporation.
Iraq Big and Small
Town Hall, DC
The 1674 Iraq civilian casualties in August
include the over 500 Yazidis that Al Qaeda killed in Kurdistan.
There is no American military surge in Kurdistan
Kurdistan - Paradise
The Moderate Voice
The only sliver of optimism I find here is in
the one region where Iraqis don’t live together: Kurdistan.
Imagine for a moment if one outcome of the US ...
Iraqi investment, trade seminars attract top officials
PortAl Iraq, MA
The Erbil event was held in collaboration with
the Kurdistan Economic Development Center. Izdihar's
contribution focused on the analysis of the investment ..
Classroom Chaos
Institute for War and Peace
Reporting, UK
The IWPR stories pick out occasional rays of
hope but details how, even in relatively peaceful Kurdistan,
Iraqis have a lot to do before they can say their
800 people enjoy youth summer camp in Kurdistan
Kurdistan Regional Government, Iraq
Erbil, Kurdistan – Iraq (MOSY-KRG.org)
- a total of 800 young people from all over Kurdistan
participated in the Region's first ever summer camp organised
PKK members looking to flee, former member says
Today's Zaman, Turkey
A former member of the terrorist Kurdistan
Workers’ Party (PKK) who recently surrendered to Turkish
security forces in the southeastern province of Hakkari ...
In vulnerable, remote north, Iraqis await a vote on future
Chicago Tribune, United States
"We are Kurds and we feel like we are part of
Kurdistan." The goal of the referendum is first to
reverse the process known as Arabization embarked upon by
...
02-09-2007
More Than 1800 Iraqis Killed in August
The Associated Press
The August total included 520 people killed in
quadruple suicide bombings on communities of Yazidis, a
Kurdish-speaking religious minority, near the Syrian
...
For Kurds, it's drill now, legislate later
Chicago Tribune, United States
But this is Kurdistan, a world apart from
the rest of Iraq, and Kurdistan isn't waiting for a
political solution in Baghdad to get on with the job of ...
US spy agencies issue grim Iraq war report
Green Left Weekly, Australia ... own Islamic Call (Dawa) Party and
Abdul Aziz al Hakim’s Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council — and the
two pro-US Kurdish parties that rule Iraqi Kurdistan.
...
For Kurds, it's drill now, legislate later
Chicago Tribune, United States
While Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish
politicians bicker over the new oil law, the Kurdish
regional government has been busily promoting investment in
northern ...
800 people enjoy youth summer camp in Kurdistan
Kurdistan Regional Government, Iraq
Erbil, Kurdistan – Iraq (MOSY-KRG.org) - a
total of 800 young people from all over Kurdistan
participated in the Region's first ever summer camp organised
...
Comment: Iraqi Kurdistan's Universities Need Reform
Institute for War and Peace
Reporting, UK
231, 30-Aug-07) Higher education in Iraqi
Kurdistan could prove to be a shining example to universities
in the rest of the country, if significant changes ...
A Time for Grace
Wall Street Journal
We speak of it as a unitary country, but the Kurds
are understandably thinking about Kurdistan, the Sunnis see
an Iraq they once controlled but that no ...
Iran attacks a harmless neighbor
Kurdish Aspect, CO
Iran and Iraqi Kurdistan have shared
borders. This neighborhood has imposed a number of rights and
duties on both of them. However, the Iranian view toward ...
Iraq’s ‘unity’
Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey
It has been claimed that Iran’s armed forces have
crossed the Iraqi border and are bombarding Party for a Free Life
in Kurdistan (PJAK) bases there with ...
Excerpt from 'Elvis Is Titanic'
USA Today
Almost a year after first arriving in Iraq to
teach American history and English, I had returned to the same
university in Kurdistan to present a couple of ...
