July 16, 2007
IRBIL, Iraq, July 16 (UPI) -- The premier of Iraq's Kurdish region is urging the federal government to make headway on a stalled oil law, claiming "unauthorized" changes were made to it.
July 15, 2007 | By Paul de Bendern
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Pro-Kurdish politicians are poised to enter Turkey's parliament for the first time in more than a decade, bringing hope to many Kurds that their cultural and political rights will be addressed.
July 15, 2007 | Andrew Sullivan
The phrase on everyone’s lips now is “postsurge”. The logistics of military tour cycles, the logic of congressional politics and the sheer impossibility of putting Iraq back together again in anything like the foreseeable future have caused something of a Rubicon in Washington.
13 juillet 2007 | The Bulletin
While the world's attention is focused on the war in Iraq, the internal Palestinian strife, the Israeli-Hamas confrontation in Gaza and the clashes between the Lebanese army and Syrian supported Fatah al-Islam, scant attention has been paid to developments inside Syria.
The regime of Bashar Assad has used this opportunity to re-launch the campaign of ethnic cleansing in the Kurdish region of Hasakah. The Syrian press, controlled by the regime, prevents access to the foreign press, and the abuses of the Kurds have gone practically unreported. News of the ethnic cleansing is arriving almost exclusively through letters and faxes from persecuted Kurds.
12 July 2007
The military intervention that Turkey has been considering staging in northern Iraq to root out members of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) based there seems to have been postponed to a time after the elections, with Prime Minister Recep Tayip Erdoğan stating "the possibility of getting parliamentary approval for an operation is not on our agenda right now."
Greece's International English Language Newspaper, July 12, 2007
Aynur set to perform in World Music series of Athens Festival
By Elias Maglinis - Kathimerini
Aynur, the “Kurdish girl” as she is fondly called by fans, will be coming to Athens to appear at the Scholeion theater on July 19 in the World Music series of the Athens Festival.
July 10, 2007 | Flynt Leverett, Suzanne Nossel, Charles A. Kupchan, Lawrence J. Korb and Peter W. Galbraith
A roundtable discussion of our options for exiting Iraq.
In our June issue, Flynt Leverett penned a memo to the incoming president laying out the options for an exit from Iraq. Below, several prominent progressives respond and offer their own suggestions.
Washington Kurdish Institute
Tuesday July 10, 2007
Interview by Elie Nakuzi; “Frankly Speaking” in President Talabani’s Baghdad Office
*Elie Nakuzi:* Mr. President, thank you for receiving us. On my own behalf and on /Al-Arabiya's/ behalf we thank you. We know of course that you are quite busy and you have a crowded timetable, but thank you for accepting our invitation. I begin by asking about your health, for we have heard many rumors. How is President Talabani's health today ?
EurasiaNet.org, 10 July 2007
YIgal Schleifer
One recent day under a blazing morning sun, Selahattin Demirtas, a member of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) and a candidate for parliament in Turkey’s southeast region, was out and about pressing the flesh.
By Scott Peterson, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
Mon Jul 9, 4:00 AM ET
Sultan Koyun says she cries as much for fallen Turkish soldiers as for killed militants of the Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK). For the first half of this story, published June 6, click here.
