Kurdish Institute of Paris

30 July 2007

A conversation with Australian lawyer Jonathan Morrow - an adviser to the Kurdistan Regional Government - about the growing success and safety of Iraqi Kurdistan. While many Iraqi Arabs view Kurdistan as a safe haven, its democratic success also generates suspicion and resentment from its neighbours.

July 29, 2007 | By AYUB NURI

I was born in 1979 in the northern Iraqi town of Halabja. In Kurdish, Halabja means “the wrong place,” and that is how the town felt when I was growing up, because I never knew a life without war. My father worked in Halabja’s electricity office, and we farmed for a few months every year.

July 30, 2007

Nineteen independent candidates supported by the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) completed procedures to register as parliamentary representatives in Parliament on Sunday.

July 30, 2007

SULAIMANIYA, Iraq, July 30 (UPI) -- Iraqi Kurdistan security forces will be sent to neighboring provinces to protect key power towers once Iraq's prime minister gives the green light.

Tuesday, July 31, 2007 | DUYGU GÜVENÇ

Iraqi PM Maliki's visit can mark a historic step for the two countries if joint steps against the PKK are approved, diplomats say

Monday July 30, 2007 | Ewen MacAskill in Washington

Wednesday, 01 August 2007

The two men were charged with subverting national security. Their lawyers have 20 days to appeal before they die by hanging. Government crackdown intensifies as nine journalists languish in Iranian jails.

Tuesday, 31 July 2007

Iran has sentenced two dissident journalists from its ethnic Kurdish minority for being "enemies of God".

July 30, 2007

The deputies and executives of the DTP met for three hours in Ankara Sunday.

With Gaza under the sway of Hamas, Lebanon paralyzed, and Iraq near collapse, the Middle East has never looked more perilous. But if the United States doesn’t move to defuse the dangerous situation in Iraqi Kurdistan fast, Washington could find itself with yet another ticking time bomb.