Kurds issue warning to Iraqi PM
ARBIL, Iraq, Oct 3 (AFP) - 16h51 - Iraq's President Jalal Talabani and fellow Kurdish leader Massud Barzani have warned Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari his high-handed running of the government is jeopardizing their support.
Kurd-Shiite split widens
President calls for minister to step aside
By Yahya Barzanji
The Associated Press - October 3, 2005
KIRKUK ยท Iraq's Kurdish president called on the country's Shiite prime minister to step down, the spokesman for the president's party said Sunday, escalating a political split between the two factions that make up the government.
Talabani: Al-Jaafari violating accord
Friday 30 September 2005
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has accused Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari of violating laws and not implementing articles of a joint charter signed between the Kurdistan alliance and the Iraqi coalition.
Tokyo High Court rejects Turkish Kurd's appeal for asylum
The Japan Times: Sept. 29, 2005 By MASAMI ITO, Staff writer
The Tokyo High Court on Wednesday dismissed an appeal filed by a Kurdish asylum seeker to revoke a Justice Ministry decision to deny him refugee status.
Turkish journalist awarded damages over Kurdish article: ECHR
STRASBOURG, Sept 27 (AFP) - 20h15 - The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesday ordered Turkey to pay damages to a Turkish journalist for repressing her freedom of speech in a case where she was accused of writing Kurdish separatist propaganda.
Iraq's Anti-Fascist President
By Clifford D. May
Townhall.com | September 16, 2005
Jalal Talabani doesn't look much like Che Guevara. With his ample girth, white moustache and bemused smile, he more resembles a favorite uncle who can be counted on to buy ice cream and dispense sound advice.
But don't be misled: Talabani is a revolutionary. As a teenager in 1946, he founded an illegal student's organization; he joined his first revolt against an Iraqi regime in 1961.
Syrian police kill Kurdish woman in clashes over homes: lawyer
DAMASCUS, Sept 15 (AFP) - 19h30 - A Syrian Kurdish woman was beaten to death by police Thursday during clashes as police demolished illegally built housing outside Damascus, a rights activist and a Kurdish leader said.
Saddam's second trial to focus on Kurd massacres
BAGHDAD, Sept 15 (AFP) - 12h54 - Ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein will likely be tried later this year over the massacre of Kurds unless he is found guilty and hanged immediately at the conclusion of a first case opening in October, a source close to the Iraq's Special Tribunal said Thursday.
No timetable for US troop withdrawal: Talabani
[Reuters - September 13, 2005] - Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said on Tuesday that Iraq will not set a timetable for a withdrawal of U.S. troops, backing away from his published remarks that the United States could withdraw as many as 50,000 troops by the end of the year.
Suspected assassin angry with Erdogan's policies on Kurds: press
ANKARA, Sept 13 (AFP) - 13h05 - A man suspected of plotting to kill Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was described in the press Tuesday as a mentally unstable nationalist dissatisfied with Ankara's response to a rekindled Kurdish rebellion in the country's southeast.
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