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DTP letter spurs criminal investigation
ANKARA - Turkish Daily News Tuesday, January 3, 2006
56 mayors in the Southeast face prosecution for their support of Roj TV
The Diyarbakır Prosecutor's Office has opened a criminal inquiry into a letter signed by 56 Democratic Society Party (DTP) mayors and sent to Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, asking him not to close down Roj TV, which broadcasts in Kurdish from Denmark.
Iraqi premier, Kurd leader strike deal
by Ahmed Janabi Monday 2 January 2006 7:16 AM GMT
Ibrahim al-Jaafari, the Iraqi interim prime minister, has held a long closed-door meeting with Massoud Barzani, president of the Iraqi Kurdistan province, in Salah al-Din resort in northern Iraq.
TV in Turkey to broadcast in Kurd language
Los Angeles Times
Published December 29, 2005
ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkish television stations will be allowed to broadcast programming in Kurdish and other languages spoken by minority groups beginning next month, the head of Turkey's broadcasting board said Wednesday.
WAR IN IRAQ: Kurds in army stay loyal to militia

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Some troops prepare to protect territory, ethnic, religious interests By Tom Lasseter Knight Ridder Newspapers
KIRKUK, Iraq - Kurdish leaders have inserted more than 10,000 of their militia members into Iraqi army divisions in northern Iraq to lay the groundwork to swarm south, seize the oil-rich city of Kirkuk and possibly half of Mosul, Iraq's third-largest city, and secure the borders of an independent Kurdistan. |
Shi'ite, Kurd leaders start to split posts
The Washington Times-ASSOCIATED PRESS- Published December 28, 2005
By Qassim Abdul-Zahra BAGHDAD - The Shi'ite religious bloc leading Iraq's parliamentary elections held talks yesterday with Kurdish leaders about who should get the top 12 government jobs, as thousands of Sunni Arabs and secular Shi'ites protested what they say was a tainted vote.
Shiite bloc bars a deal on seats in Parliament
By Sabrina Tavernise
The New York Times - MONDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2005 BAGHDAD - Sunni Arab political leaders asked the main Shiite political bloc Sunday to give them 10 Shiite seats in the new Parliament in an early attempt to resolve questions over the results of the election last week. The Shiites refused the request.
Kurds stake claim in the future
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By Jim Muir - BBC News, Irbil - 15 December 2005 | 
The mood was festive as Kurds queued to vote in their regional capital, Irbil, and other towns and villages that make up the three provinces of Iraq's Kurdistan region. |
Envoy Faults Militias' Interference in Iraq Vote
 By Ellen Knickmeyer - Washington Post Foreign Service Saturday, December 17, 2005; A17
BAGHDAD, Dec. 16 - Kurdish and Shiite factional militias and other armed men blocked voters from polling sites in scattered locations during Iraq's national elections, Iraqi and U.S. officials said Friday. While the intimidation likely was not serious enough to influence the outcome of Thursday's vote, one U.S. diplomat said, the overt militia role was part of a dangerous trend in Iraqi politics.
Present at the Disintegration
December 11, 2005 - Op-Ed Contributor By KANAN MAKIYA - London
WASHINGTON and Baghdad will be tempted, with the adoption of a new Constitution and the election on Thursday for a four-year government, to declare victory in Iraq. In one sense, they are right to do so. The emerging Iraqi polity undoubtedly represents a radical break not only with the country's past but also with the whole Arab state system established by Britain and France after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.
Masoud Barzani
Thu Dec 15, 2005 - 6:04 AM ET
Kurdish regional president and Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) leader Masoud Barzani drops his ballot at a polling station in the northern city of Arbil December 15, 2005. A steady stream of Iraqi voters walked to polling stations nationwide on Thursday to elect their first full-time parliament since Saddam Hussein's overthrow, ignoring sporadic violence such as a mortar attack in Baghdad. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari
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