After a Kurdish group claimed responsibility for a series of recent bombings in Turkey that killed three civilians and injured many others, the United States appointed a retired Air Force general and former NATO commander, Joseph Ralston, to work with Turkish authorities.
Thursday, August 24, 2006 / ANKARA - The Turkish capital has dismissed the comments made by a top U.S. adviser to Iraqi Kurdish leaders regarding Turkey and the “reality” of an independent Kurdish state in northern Iraq.
22 August 2006 WASHINGTON - Ankara will not be able to prevent the founding of a Kurdish state in northern Iraq, a former senior US diplomat said late Monday. The American advisor to Iraq’s Kurdish leaders said that Kurds in Turkey would choose a Turkey in the process of joining the European Union over other alternatives.
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Aug. 23 — Defense lawyers for Saddam Hussein accused a former Kurdish militant of treason on Wednesday, arguing on the third day of Mr. Hussein’s genocide trial that chemical attacks on Kurds were legitimate acts against local militias conspiring with Iran.
BAGHDAD - Two defendants in the second trial of Saddam Hussein testified Tuesday that Iraqi troops had attacked Iranian forces and allied Kurdish guerrillas in northern Iraq, but had avoided targeting civilians.
Michael Howard in Qandil Mountain Friday August 18, 2006
Turkey and Iran have dispatched tanks, artillery and thousands of troops to their frontiers with Iraq during the past few weeks in what appears to be a coordinated effort to disrupt the activities of Kurdish rebel bases.
BAGHDAD - Beneath the clinical glare of fluorescent lights in a collection of makeshift laboratories here, the victims of mass murder under Saddam Hussein are slowly brought back to life.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 2006
BAGHDAD - President Jalal Talabani defended Iraq's security forces Wednesday against accusations of atrocities and said they would assume control of the country from U.S. troops by the end of the year.
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