WP: Kurds cultivate bond with U.S.


April 23, 2007

Lobby groups, TV commercials highlight region as 'the other Iraq'

By Rajiv Chandrasekaran

The Washington Post

The 30-second television commercial features stirring scenes of a young Iraqi boy high-fiving a U.S. soldier, a Westerner dining alfresco, and men and women dancing together. "Have you seen the other Iraq?" the narrator asks. "It's spectacular. It's joyful."

"Welcome to Iraqi Kurdistan!" the narrator continues. "It's not a dream. It's the other Iraq."


  

Clashes with Kurds kill 120 Iranian police in five months


TEHRAN, Sept 3 (AFP) - 10h48 - Clashes in western Iran with Kurdish rebels have left 120 Iranian police dead and a further 64 injured in less than six months, a provincial judiciary chief was quoted as saying Saturday.
"Since the beginning of the year 1384 (beginning March 20, 2005), 120 police have been martyred and 64 injured fighting the Pejak, PKK, Kurdish Democratic Party and Komoleh," Hojatoleslam Akbar Feyz, the head of Western Azebaijan province judiciary, told the student news agency ISNA.

  

European Court to decide on university exclusion of Turkish woman wearing headscarf


STRASBOURG, May 18 (AFP) - 17h53 - The European Court of Human Rights on Wednesday heard the appeal of a woman who was expelled from a Turkish university for wearing a Muslim head scarf.

  

Flush with oil, Kurdistan draws Western producers and explorers




Tuesday, July 3, 2007 | By Kambiz Foroohar Bloomberg News 
 
TAWKE, Iraq: Just outside the village of Tawke in northeastern Iraq, black smoke billows over the green hills as a fire rages unchecked.

  

Turkish Prime Minister warns US: we will attack Kurdish rebels in Iraq



October 21, 2007 | Martin Fletcher and Suna Erdem

Recep Tayyip Erdogan tells The Times that he needs nobody’s permission to defend his country

  

Iraq's one-time Kurdish foes seek unity in new parliament


ARBIL, Iraq, June 11 (AFP) - 16h45 - Iraq's three autonomous Kurdish provinces were preparing on Saturday for the swearing-in of Massoud Barzani as the region's president, with his former rival Jalal Talabani already national president.

  

Iraqi court opens trial against former regime officials



Tuesday, August 21, 2007  | The Associated Press

BAGHDAD: A witness on Tuesday recalled the random shooting deaths of a teenaged girl and three other people in a square packed with detainees as Saddam Hussein's forces rounded up Shiites after a 1991 uprising against his regime after the Gulf War.


  

Federalism, Not Partition



Wednesday, October 3, 2007 | By Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Leslie H. Gelb

The Bush administration and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki greeted last week's Senate vote on Iraq policy -- based on a plan we proposed in 2006 -- with misrepresentations and untruths. Seventy-five senators, including 26 Republicans, voted to promote a political settlement based on decentralized power-sharing. It was a life raft for an Iraq policy that is adrift.


  

Turkish minister issues warning to pro-Kurdish party



Thursday, November 8, 2007

Sahin had earlier said he could not be happy at the release of the eight prisoners as it was unfortunate that they had been captured in the first place.