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Ankara downplays Galbraith’s assertion on ‘independent Kurdistan’


 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.

  

Turkey can’t prevent founding of Kurdish state: Galbraith


 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.


  

Lawyers for Hussein Accuse Kurd of Treason



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.


  

Saddam commanders tell of Kurd campaign


The Associated Press, The New York Times
TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2006

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.

  

New Saddam Hussein trial begins


Monday, 21 August 2006

Ex-Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has gone on trial again in Baghdad - this time in connection with an anti-Kurdish offensive in 1987 and 1988.

  

Kurds flee homes as Iran shells Iraq's northern frontier



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.


  

Giving a voice to victims of Saddam's rule


By Kirk Semple The New York Times
THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2006

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.


  

Iraqi leader defends his security forces



By Damien Cave The New York Times
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.

  

The Next Front


 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?


  

U.S. promises Turkey to fight against PKK


 Xinhua - Editor: Wang Yan - ANKARA, July 23

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has telephoned Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul and promised to do whatever necessary to fight against the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK), the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported on Sunday.