26 August 2008, Tuesday

The Turkish Patent Institute (TPE) has not approved applications for beverage brand name “Cola Kurda” because it found resemblances to the emblem of the separatist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the product’s name and colors.

Tuesday, August 26, 2008 | Robert Tait in Istanbul

A court in Turkey has lifted a ban on YouTube, the video sharing website, after hundreds of sites voluntarily blocked themselves in protest at growing internet censorship.

Tuesday, August 26, 2008 | Turkish Press Scanner

AKŞAM | Turkey has rejected a Kurdish cola brand's request for patent registration in Turkey, reported daily Akşam yesterday.

By Richard A. Oppel Jr

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

KIRKUK, Iraq - The phone rang, and it was answered by a Kurdish security commander, Hallo Najat, sitting in his office in this deeply divided city. On the line, he said, was a United Nations official wanting to know whether it was true that the Kurdish militia, the pesh merga, had left its bases in northern Iraq and was occupying Kirkuk.

Friday August 15 2008 | Robert Tait in Istanbul

Ahmadinejad snubbed by breakdown of energy sale
Aim of president's visit thwarted by intervention

Turkey delivered a humiliating snub to Iran's visiting president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, yesterday by backing out of a lucrative energy deal under pressure from the US government, which feared it would enhance Iranian nuclear ambitions.

Mon Aug 11, 2008

TUNCELI, Turkey (Reuters) - Nine Turkish soldiers including a lieutenant colonel were killed on Monday when their vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device planted by separatist guerrillas, military sources told Reuters.

Tue, Aug 05, 2008

JV project led by Gas Cities LLC to generate investments over USD 40 billion

Erbil, 28 July 2008: Gas Cities LLC, a joint venture between Dana Gas PJSC, the Middle East's first and largest regional private-sector natural gas company, and its partner Crescent Petroleum, announced today that the 461 million square foot site for the Kurdistan Gas City has been officially assigned by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), for development by Gas Cities LLC, following extensive surveys that have been completed on potential sites within the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

Thu July 31, 2008

ARBIL, Iraq (CNN) -- Two United Arab Emirates based companies announced on Tuesday that they will be investing in the Iraq's autonomous region of Kurdistan.

July 31, 2008

Good news has been a long time coming in Turkey, but the drought ended yesterday when the high court narrowly decided not to ban the country's governing party. Maybe Ankara now can get back to the important work of building a liberal Muslim democracy.

July 30 2008 | By Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington

Iraqi oil production has risen to its highest level since the 2003 invasion on the back of improved security across the country, according to a new US government report.