The Japan Times: Sept. 29, 2005 By MASAMI ITO, Staff writer
The Tokyo High Court on Wednesday dismissed an appeal filed by a Kurdish asylum seeker to revoke a Justice Ministry decision to deny him refugee status.
STRASBOURG, Sept 27 (AFP) - 20h15 - The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesday ordered Turkey to pay damages to a Turkish journalist for repressing her freedom of speech in a case where she was accused of writing Kurdish separatist propaganda.
By Clifford D. May
Townhall.com | September 16, 2005
Jalal Talabani doesn't look much like Che Guevara. With his ample girth, white moustache and bemused smile, he more resembles a favorite uncle who can be counted on to buy ice cream and dispense sound advice.
But don't be misled: Talabani is a revolutionary. As a teenager in 1946, he founded an illegal student's organization; he joined his first revolt against an Iraqi regime in 1961.
DAMASCUS, Sept 15 (AFP) - 19h30 - A Syrian Kurdish woman was beaten to death by police Thursday during clashes as police demolished illegally built housing outside Damascus, a rights activist and a Kurdish leader said.
BAGHDAD, Sept 15 (AFP) - 12h54 - Ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein will likely be tried later this year over the massacre of Kurds unless he is found guilty and hanged immediately at the conclusion of a first case opening in October, a source close to the Iraq's Special Tribunal said Thursday.
ANKARA, Sept 13 (AFP) - 13h05 - A man suspected of plotting to kill Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was described in the press Tuesday as a mentally unstable nationalist dissatisfied with Ankara's response to a rekindled Kurdish rebellion in the country's southeast.
Associated Press - September 7, 2005
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's president said Tuesday that Saddam Hussein had confessed to killings and other "crimes" committed during his regime, including the massacre of thousands of Kurds in the late 1980s. By Robert F. Worth The New York Times - TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2005
BAGHDAD President Jalal Talabani of Iraq issued a bitter rhetorical broadside against other Arab countries Monday, saying they had insulted Iraq by not sending diplomats to Baghdad and by not sending condolence letters about the stampede last week in which nearly 1,000 Shiite pilgrims were killed.
By DEXTER FILKINS- September 2, 2005 - Correction Appended
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Sept. 1 - The old Kurdish guerrilla leader is savoring his most recent victory, won not on the field of battle but in the arid drawing rooms of Baghdad's constitutional convention.
