Fri Apr 7, 2006 10:36 AM ET
By Shamal Aqrawi
ARBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - Writer Kamal Karim came away with a troubling lesson from his Kurdish homeland in northern Iraq -- an opinion can get you a 30-year jail sentence.
By SAMEER N. YACOUB Associated Press
April 5, 2006
BAGHDAD, Iraq authorities charged Saddam Hussein with genocide Tuesday, accusing him of trying to exterminate the Kurds in a 1980s campaign that killed an estimated 100,000 -- the first move to prosecute him for the major human rights violations that the U.S. cited to help justify its invasion.
By SELCAN HACAOGLU, Associated Press WriterThu Apr 6, 2006
Turkey's leaders promised a tough fight against Kurdish militants but said Thursday that would not mean backtracking on reforms critical to their bid to join the European Union.
Tue 4 Apr 2006 2:28 PM ET
By Shamal Aqrawi
ARBIL, Iraq, April 4 (Reuters) - Many Kurds who learned on Tuesday that Saddam Hussein could soon face trial for genocide against their community shrugged their shoulders, saying they had more pressing matters to deal with.
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DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, March 28 (Reuters) - Thirty-five people, including 11 police, were injured in Turkey on Tuesday in violence which started when mourners at a funeral for Kurdish militants clashed with police, officials said.
Tuesday, 4 April 2006Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan says efforts will continue to improve conditions for the Kurdish minority, after a week of unrest.
However he again attacked Kurdish separatists, warning them "not to dare to test the power of the state."
Sunday, April 2, 2006
Unifying government, prime minister urged during Baghdad visit
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her counterpart, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, flew to Baghdad on Sunday for a visit aimed at jump-starting the process of forming a national unity government.
Friday, 31 March 2006
A Kurdish separatist group, the TAK, said it carried out the attack in response to recent violence in the mainly Kurdish south-east of Turkey.
Reuters - Monday, March 27, 2006; A12
IRBIL, Iraq, March 26 -- An Iraqi-born Kurd with Austrian citizenship was sentenced to a year and a half in prison Sunday for defaming a Kurdish leader, in a case that has raised questions about press freedoms in postwar Iraq.
SULAIMANIYA, Iraq Like most young Kurds in this northern city, Asad Ali does not speak Arabic. He has heard about the rising wave of sectarian killings down in Baghdad, but it seems a world away from the quiet rhythms of daily life here in Kurdistan.
