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Turkey Retreats From Threats To Invade Iraq



October 19, 2007 | BY ELI LAKE - Staff Reporter of the Sun

WASHINGTON — Turkey is backing down from its threats to launch an incursion into northern Iraq after intense diplomatic pressure from America and other Western countries.

  

Çiçek: No retreat from operation decision



October 19, 2007 | ERCAN YAVUZ  ANKARA 


Deputy Prime Minister Cemil Çiçek in clear terms dismissed charges that the government is reluctant to use a parliamentary authorization for incursion into northern Iraq to hit bases of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) there, pledging that the decision will be followed by deeds.
 

  

Thousands of Kurds rally in northern Iraq against Turkish parliament's decision



Thursday, October 18, 2007 | The Associated Press

IRBIL, Iraq: Thousands of Kurds and supporters took to the streets in northern Iraq Thursday to protest the Turkish parliament's decision to authorize the government to send troops across the border to root out Kurdish rebels who have been conducting raids into Turkey.


  

U.S. Working To Keep Turks Out of Iraq



October 18, 2007 | BY ELI LAKE - Staff Reporter of the Sun

WASHINGTON — American diplomats are working to secure assurances that yesterday's overwhelming vote in the Turkish parliament to authorize cross-border raids into northern Iraq is purely symbolic and that the Turkish military will not enter the mountainous Kurdish region of Iraq.


  

Turkey approves Iraq incursion


Wednesday, October 17, 2007 | By Sebnem Arsu and Sabrina Tavernise

ISTANBUL: Turkey's parliament voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to authorize sending troops into northern Iraq to confront Kurdish rebels in hideouts there, sending an angry message to the Baghdad government and its Washington sponsors. But the NATO country made clear it would not act unless it had to.


  

Iraq: Former Official Says Political Parties 'Failing' To Work Together



Tuesday, October 16, 2007

PRAGUE, October 16, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Kamran al-Karadaghi, a former chief of staff for Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, says that Iraq's political climate will not improve until the country's leaders find the political determination to make "very hard decisions." He also discussed the current tensions between Turkey and Iraq's Kurds, as well as the issue of "normalizing" the disputed region of Kirkuk.


  

Erdogan Plays Down Threat to Iraq



October 17, 2007 | By ALISSA J. RUBIN

BAGHDAD, Oct. 16 - With tensions high along the Iraqi-Turkish border as the Turkish government seeks parliamentary approval for military raids into northern Iraq, the Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said today that the approval would not necessarily immediately be followed by military action.


  

Villagers tell of terror after Turkey launches rocket attack across border



October 16, 2007

Deborah Haynes in Matin Mountains
The Turkish rockets streaked out of the night sky and slammed into the mountainside next to a village in northern Iraq, setting fire to a swath of grassland and forcing families to dive for cover.

  

Kurds in Armenia



October 15, 2007 | Hasmik Hovhannisyan

Approximately 40 million Kurds live in the world; about 20 million live in Turkey, 9 million in Iran, 6 million in Iraq, 3 million in Syria. And the rest are scattered all over the world. Almost any European country has a Kurdish Diaspora; the largest community is 1 million people and is registered in Germany.


  

Father of modern Kurdish novel' laid to rest



Monday, October 15, 2007

Mehmed Uzun, a Kurdish novelist who was prosecuted for criticizing Turkey's former ban on the Kurdish language, was commemorated by thousands Saturday at his funeral in Diyarbakır.