Kurdish Institute of Paris

Aug. 26 (Bloomberg.com) -- Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's pledge to give more rights to the Kurdish minority has reignited the debate over what the government should do to end insurgent attacks and appease the European Union.

ANKARA, Aug 23 (AFP) - 19h05 - The Turkish military vowed Wednesday to press on with its struggle against armed Kurdish rebels, brushing aside a unilateral one-month truce announced by the militants after several months of increased violence.

TurkishPress.com - 8/22/2005 - ISTANBUL - Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Kurdish problem and PKK terrorism were different things, adding ''we won't confuse the two, we should separate them.''

ANKARA, Aug 23 (AFP) - 12h02 - A ranking US official is expected here Thursday for talks on bilateral ties and particularly measures to combat armed Turkish Kurd rebels holed up in the mountains of northern Iraq, a US spokesman said.

Kurdish Returnees Revive Village Leveled During Saddam's Era
By TINI TRAN - The Associated Press

Aug. 23, 2005 - Even a year ago, the dusty, rolling hills north of Kirkuk were largely barren. But the horizon has changed rapidly in recent months with a flurry of newly constructed cinderblock homes dotting the hillsides.

By Dexter Filkins The New York Times - MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 2005


BAGHDAD Iraqi leaders trying to complete a new constitution moved toward deals on such contentious issues as Shiite autonomy, sharing oil revenues and Kurdish self-rule. But as they progressed on those fronts, a tentative agreement that would have given Islam an expanded role in the state and in family disputes appeared to unravel.

Al-Jazira - Friday 19 August 2005

A Kurdish separatist group has called in a statement for a one-month unilateral ceasefire with Ankara until 20 September in order to open negotiations

By SELCAN HACAOGLU, [Associated Press Writer - Aug 19, 2005]
A Kurdish rebel group fighting for autonomy in Turkey's southeast announced a one-month cease-fire Friday and said it planned to pursue indirect negotiations with the government.

BAGHDAD, Aug 20 (AFP) - 15h49 - Kurdish negotiators Saturday said they were ready for compromise over Iraq's constitution, but showed no sign of relenting in their vehement rejection of Islam as the main source of law in the new charter.

Tue Aug 16, 2005 - By Andrew Hammond

BAGHDAD, Aug 16 (Reuters) - In a government building in the heart of the U.S.-protected Green Zone in central Baghdad, Laith Shubbar is plotting how to make Iraqis care about the document its politicians have had so much trouble writing there.