First contact with Barzani
Friday, May 2, 2008
ANKARA - A Turkish delegation comprised of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's chief policy advisor and Turkey's special envoy for Iraq departed for Baghdad yesterday for meetings with central Iraqi government officials as well as Iraqi Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani.
KRG statement on first high-level talks with Turkey
1 May. 2008
Erbil, Kurdistan – Iraq (KRG.org) – A Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) delegation led by Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani today in Baghdad met with a delegation from the Republic of Turkey headed by Mr Ahmet Davutoğlu, the senior advisor to the Turkish Prime Minister; Mr Murat Özçelik, the Special Coordinator for Iraqi Affairs at the Turkish Foreign Ministry; and Mr Derya Kanbay, Turkey's Ambassador in Baghdad.
Baghdad and Kurds Close the Gap
April 30, 2008 | Author: Greg Bruno
In March, despite few signs of progress on an Iraqi national oil law, the Kurdistan Regional Government’s Ministry of Natural Resources readied for a hiring spree. Calls went out for legal advisors, engineers, and geoscientists—"thirty-five oil and gas experts in all.
The Big Question: As Tariq Aziz goes on trial, who is left from Saddam Hussein's regime?
Wednesday, 30 April 2008 | By Patrick Cockburn
Why are we asking this now?
Tariq Aziz, the most articulate spokesman for Saddam Hussein's regime, went on trial in Baghdad yesterday. The 72-year-old is accused of being responsible for the execution in 1992 of 42 merchants, who allegedly raised food prices for no reason at a time when Iraq was under international sanctions.
A Kurdish idealist returns to Iraq to 'change attitudes'
April 29, 2008 | Staff writer | By Sam Dagher
Taha Barwari came back to northern Iraqi from Sweden with a mission to inspire young Kurds disaffected by decades of war.
Hawkish Engagement Needed with Iran?
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.
Meeting with Barzani set to happen before summer
April 28, 2008
A long-awaited meeting between Turkish officials and Nechirvan Barzani, the prime minister of northern Iraq's largely autonomous regional Kurdish administration, will take place before the end of this spring, a high-level Turkish official has said.
Who should the Kurds vote for?
April 27, 2008 | BEJAN MATUR
Imagine that you live in Diyarbakır. If you did not vote for the Democratic Society Party (DTP) in the last election, you must have chosen the Justice and Development Party (AK Party). You did so for a number of reasons.
Miliband and Barzani discuss Turkey, Article 140 and political progress in Iraq
25 Apr. 2008
Salahaddin, Kurdistan - Iraq (KRG.org) - President Masoud Barzani yesterday met Mr David Miliband, the British Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary, to discuss political progress in Iraq, relations with Turkey and Article 140 of the Constitution.
Can the U.N. avert a Kirkuk border war?
April 25, 2008 | By Sam Dagher | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq is expected to unveil a plan in May that it hopes will lead to a compromise over contentious land issues in oil-rich northern Iraq.
KIRKUK, Iraq - Kirkuk provincial council head Rizgar Ali says one proof of the province's "Kurdishness" is in the maps.
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