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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.

August 24, 2006 - by Damien Cave
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.



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.

By Owen Matthews and Sami Kohen
Newsweek International
July31, 2006 issue - Israel launched airstrikes on Lebanon in response toattacks by Hizbullah earlier this month, and George W. Bush called it"self-defense." But what to tell the Turks, who over the last week lost15 sol-diers to terror attacks launched by sepa-ratist Kurds fromneighboring Iraq?
Xinhua - Editor: Wang Yan - ANKARA, July 23