Tuesday, 31 July 2007

Iran has sentenced two dissident journalists from its ethnic Kurdish minority for being "enemies of God".

July 30, 2007

The deputies and executives of the DTP met for three hours in Ankara Sunday.

With Gaza under the sway of Hamas, Lebanon paralyzed, and Iraq near collapse, the Middle East has never looked more perilous. But if the United States doesn’t move to defuse the dangerous situation in Iraqi Kurdistan fast, Washington could find itself with yet another ticking time bomb.

24 July 2007 | Nicholas Birch in Istanbul

As Turkey's government savoured an overwhelming electoral victory yesterday, regional analysts agreed that the immediate impetus for an invasion of northern Iraq had receded.

· Poll victory gives Erdogan power to resist military
· Kurdish party wins 23 seats in new parliament

Tuesday, July 24, 2007 | MUSTAFA AKYOL | DİYARBAKIR

This town has always been the most prominent city in Turkey's southeast. In Ottoman times, in fact the whole region was called the “Diyarbekir province.” Today, with its 1.2 million inhabitants, it is not only the most populous of the southeastern towns, but also the most developed one.

23 juillet 2007

Former Kurdish deputy Leyla Zana faces an investigation after she called for division of Turkey into administrative states, including a “state of Kurdistan.”

Monday, July 23, 2007 | Christopher Hitchens

The mills of justice grind with maddening slowness, but they do at least grind. In October 2005, my friend Denis MacShane, the radical Labor member of Parliament for Rotherham, rose on the floor of the House of Commons to demand a joint inquiry by the British parliament and the U.S. Congress into the financial relationship between George Galloway and the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.

July 21, 2007 | Doug Saunders | Read Bio | Latest Columns

DIYARBAKIR, TURKEY -- Like most Kurds here in southeastern Turkey, Abdurrahman Oguz has never had an easy time with the Turkish government.

July 20, 2007 | By BEN LANDO | UPI Energy Correspondent

WASHINGTON, July 20 (UPI) -- A voter registration list of residents in Iraq's oil-rich northern disputed territories is to be completed by the end of July. It marks a long-awaited step for Iraq's Kurds, who claim the area was ripped from them by Saddam Hussein's policies.