Kurdish Institute of Paris

Friday, March 7, 2008 | Mehmet Ali Birand

Some things are changing in Turkey. I am sure it has come to your attention, too. We're witnessing some unusual developments.

 | Guest Voice
5 March 2008 | Dr. Günes Murat Tezcür

Few places symbolize state power and security challenges more than the border zone between Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan. Whether this border will blossom with commerce and cultural exchange or become a transit point for tanks and militants has great implications for the future of the Middle East and the relationship between the Muslim world and the West.

10 March 2008 | Ilnur Cevik

President Talabani is in Ankara. However, his visit is not a state visit but a working visit. This is so simply because he is a Kurd. Turkey has to get rid of this Kurdish phobia if its wants to solve its own Kurdish problem.

The Kurds' desire to secure and consolidate the freedoms they enjoyed in the decade prior to the U.S. invasion of Iraq has reshaped U.S.-Kurdish relations in many ways. In order to keep Iraq united with a strong central government, U.S. policy tries to ensure that the Kurds do not seek independence. At the same time, though, The United States has tried to work with the Kurdish Regional Government. The Kurds have equally tried to support the U.S. presence in Iraq as they too benefit from the cooperative relationship.

March 5, 2008  | By John D. McKinnon

WASHINGTON -- The perception that the U.S. troop surge in Iraq has succeeded is changing some public views of the war, potentially blunting Democrats' political edge on the issue.

March 5, 2008 | By Peter Spiegel and Julian E. Barnes

Two top military commanders allege that Tehran continues to direct Shiite militias and is trying to permanently weaken the government in Baghdad.

Wednesday, March 5, 2008 | Cengiz ÇANDAR

The timing and nature of the pullout from northern Iraq would have to cause a stir in Turkish public inevitably. Statements issued on the subject do not clear the question marks about the withdrawal but rather bring more to mind.

5 March 2008

Three members of European Parliament have concurred that the new Turkish Constitution should not include the concept of "Turkishness" and should focus instead on citizenship without making distinctions over ethnicity.

5 March 2008 | Servet Yanatma

An Iranian official has said his country could play a positive role in improving dialogue between Turkey and the Iraqi Kurdish leadership in countering terrorism and insisted that the Kurdish leaders do not support the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

4 March 2008 | By Elitsa Vucheva

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – The EU on Monday urged Turkey to increase the pace of its human rights reforms, as well as to improve the situation of the country's Kurdish minority.