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Turkey Vows to Fight Kurdish Radicals
By SELCAN HACAOGLU, Associated Press WriterThu Apr 6, 2006
Turkey's leaders promised a tough fight against Kurdish militants but said Thursday that would not mean backtracking on reforms critical to their bid to join the European Union.
Iraq Kurds shrug shoulders over new Saddam trial
Tue 4 Apr 2006 2:28 PM ET
By Shamal Aqrawi
ARBIL, Iraq, April 4 (Reuters) - Many Kurds who learned on Tuesday that Saddam Hussein could soon face trial for genocide against their community shrugged their shoulders, saying they had more pressing matters to deal with.
Dozens injured in clashes with pro-Kurd rebel mourners
Tue 28 Mar 2006 5:30 PM ET
(Releads with injured, adds details)
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, March 28 (Reuters) - Thirty-five people, including 11 police, were injured in Turkey on Tuesday in violence which started when mourners at a funeral for Kurdish militants clashed with police, officials said.
Turk PM hits back at Kurd unrest
 Tuesday, 4 April 2006 Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan says efforts will continue to improve conditions for the Kurdish minority, after a week of unrest. However he again attacked Kurdish separatists, warning them "not to dare to test the power of the state."
Rice, Straw to Iraqis: The time has come
 Sunday, April 2, 2006
Unifying government, prime minister urged during Baghdad visit
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her counterpart, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, flew to Baghdad on Sunday for a visit aimed at jump-starting the process of forming a national unity government.
Istanbul blast amid Kurd tension
Friday, 31 March 2006 A Kurdish separatist group, the TAK, said it carried out the attack in response to recent violence in the mainly Kurdish south-east of Turkey.
Kurd Draws Jail Again In Press Freedom Case
Reuters - Monday, March 27, 2006; A12
IRBIL, Iraq, March 26 -- An Iraqi-born Kurd with Austrian citizenship was sentenced to a year and a half in prison Sunday for defaming a Kurdish leader, in a case that has raised questions about press freedoms in postwar Iraq.
Iraqi Kurds aren't feeling Arabs' pain
By Robert F. Worth The New York Times
THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 2006
SULAIMANIYA, Iraq Like most young Kurds in this northern city, Asad Ali does not speak Arabic. He has heard about the rising wave of sectarian killings down in Baghdad, but it seems a world away from the quiet rhythms of daily life here in Kurdistan.
Iraq's president warns of civil war after bombings
Mon Mar 13, 2006 8:43 AM ET
By Ross Colvin and Mariam Karouny
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's president pressed political parties on Monday to accelerate efforts to form a broad government to arrest a slide into civil war after bomb blasts in a Baghdad Shi'ite slum killed 52 people.
The Kurd Card
By Charles Krauthammer
Friday, March 10, 2006; A19
Lost amid the news of all the bloodletting in Iraq is an important political development: The Kurds have switched sides. In the first parliament after the first set of elections, they allied themselves with the Shiite slate to produce the current Shiite-dominated government led by Ibrahim al-Jafari.
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