Kurdish Institute of Paris

Oct 30, 2008

İstanbul -- The court sentenced publisher Ali Rıza Vural of Doz Publishing to “doing propaganda work for the Kurdish Workers Party” by publishing Hasan Bildirici’s novel that used the words “Kurd” and “Kurdish People.”

Wed October 29, 2008

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Coalition troops formally handed over control of Iraq's Wasit province to the Iraqi government Wednesday.

BAGHDAD, Oct. 29, 2008

(AP) Iraq wants a security agreement with the U.S. to include a clear ban on U.S. troops using Iraqi territory to attack Iraq's neighbors, the government spokesman said Wednesday, three days after a dramatic U.S. raid on Syria.

Oct. 28, 2008

ERBIL, Iraq, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- Kurdish President Massoud Barzani departed the region for Washington at the official invitation of U.S. President George Bush, officials said.

By Arwa Damon

QANDIL MOUNTAINS, Iraq (CNN) -- The women line the mountainside, locked hand in hand in their green battle fatigues, and begin dancing. It's a victory dance, they say, that is routine after raids across the border on Turkish troops.

The Turkish Patent Institute (TPE) has not approved applications for beverage brand name “Cola Kurda” because it found resemblances to the emblem of the separatist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the product’s name and colors.

Tuesday, August 26, 2008 | Robert Tait in Istanbul

A court in Turkey has lifted a ban on YouTube, the video sharing website, after hundreds of sites voluntarily blocked themselves in protest at growing internet censorship.

Tuesday, August 26, 2008 | Turkish Press Scanner

AKŞAM | Turkey has rejected a Kurdish cola brand's request for patent registration in Turkey, reported daily Akşam yesterday.

By Richard A. Oppel Jr

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

KIRKUK, Iraq - The phone rang, and it was answered by a Kurdish security commander, Hallo Najat, sitting in his office in this deeply divided city. On the line, he said, was a United Nations official wanting to know whether it was true that the Kurdish militia, the pesh merga, had left its bases in northern Iraq and was occupying Kirkuk.

Friday August 15 2008 | Robert Tait in Istanbul

Ahmadinejad snubbed by breakdown of energy sale
Aim of president's visit thwarted by intervention

Turkey delivered a humiliating snub to Iran's visiting president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, yesterday by backing out of a lucrative energy deal under pressure from the US government, which feared it would enhance Iranian nuclear ambitions.