The military intervention that Turkey has been considering staging in northern Iraq to root out members of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) based there seems to have been postponed to a time after the elections, with Prime Minister Recep Tayip Erdoğan stating "the possibility of getting parliamentary approval for an operation is not on our agenda right now."
Greece's International English Language Newspaper, July 12, 2007
Aynur set to perform in World Music series of Athens Festival
By Elias Maglinis - Kathimerini
Aynur, the “Kurdish girl” as she is fondly called by fans, will be coming to Athens to appear at the Scholeion theater on July 19 in the World Music series of the Athens Festival.
July 10, 2007 | Flynt Leverett, Suzanne Nossel, Charles A. Kupchan, Lawrence J. Korb and Peter W. Galbraith
A roundtable discussion of our options for exiting Iraq.
In our June issue, Flynt Leverett penned a memo to the incoming president laying out the options for an exit from Iraq. Below, several prominent progressives respond and offer their own suggestions.
Washington Kurdish Institute Tuesday July 10, 2007
Interview by Elie Nakuzi; “Frankly Speaking” in President Talabani’s Baghdad Office
*Elie Nakuzi:* Mr. President, thank you for receiving us. On my own behalf and on /Al-Arabiya's/ behalf we thank you. We know of course that you are quite busy and you have a crowded timetable, but thank you for accepting our invitation. I begin by asking about your health, for we have heard many rumors. How is President Talabani's health today ?
One recent day under a blazing morning sun, Selahattin Demirtas, a member of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) and a candidate for parliament in Turkey’s southeast region, was out and about pressing the flesh.
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 made a protest to its neighbor and regional rival Greece Saturday because a map shown during an official seminar organized by the Greek Chief of general Staff, divided Turkey into parts.
July 9, 2007 -- TALK to Turks of any political persuasion and you are sure to hear how proud they are that Turkey is "the only democracy in the Muslim world."
The relative stability and prosperity of Iraqi Kurdistan provide the only bright spots of redemption for President Bush in the bloody anarchy that Iraq has become under a mismanaged occupation. Permanently securing the Kurdish minority from Baghdad's genocidal impulses and acts would be a historic accomplishment.
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