5 september 2007

Diyarbakır Mayor Osman Baydemir was the recipient of harsh words from the government and the opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) yesterday after he complained his southeastern city was subject to discrimination and declared his pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) was ready if the government wants to launch a war on Diyarbakır.

  


Tuesday, 26 February 2008

The Iraqi government has denounced a Turkish incursion into northern Iraq in some of the strongest terms heard since the operation began last week.


  


10 March 2008 | Ilnur Cevik

President Talabani is in Ankara. However, his visit is not a state visit but a working visit. This is so simply because he is a Kurd. Turkey has to get rid of this Kurdish phobia if its wants to solve its own Kurdish problem.


  

[September 4, 2005] A group of nationalist Turks attacked dozens of buses carrying pro-Kurdish demonstrators with stones on Sunday, following violent clashes between Kurdish demonstrators and police in Istanbul, reports said.

  


Wednesday, March 5, 2008 | Cengiz ÇANDAR

The timing and nature of the pullout from northern Iraq would have to cause a stir in Turkish public inevitably. Statements issued on the subject do not clear the question marks about the withdrawal but rather bring more to mind.


  

19/05/2005 KurdishMedia.com

- In his Salahuddin HQ north of Hawler, KDP leader Massoud Barzani received on Sunday the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who described Barzani as a prudent leader who can play a great role in rebuilding federal Iraq. Rice said she came to consult with Barzani.

  

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, Nov 17 (AFP) - Thousands of people gathered in Yuksekova town in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast Thursday to bury three people killed in riots that have strained the region and rattled the Ankara government.


  


24 Feb. 2008

Erbil, Kurdistan - " Iraq (KRG.org) - " Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani today held a press conference in Erbil, capital of the Kurdistan Region, to discuss the ongoing Turkish military incursion in Iraq and his recent visits to the Republic of Korea and State of Qatar.


  

ANKARA, June 15 (AFP) - 13h24 - Turkey on Wednesday termed "meaningless" the selection of Massoud Barzani as president of Iraqi Kurdistan before a new Iraqi constitution outlining the country's new administrative system is drawn up and approved at a popular vote.

  


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.