Sunday, March 23, 2008
Hundreds of Kurdish protesters have thrown stones at police and soldiers in southeastern Turkey, in the fourth day of clashes that have killed at least two people and injured dozens of others.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein and his former top army commanders will go on trial on August 21 on charges of killing tens of thousands of Iraq's Kurds in 1988 in a military operation to force them from their villages.
State of the Union January
February 2008 Atlantic Monthly | by Jeffrey Goldberg
Not long ago, in a decrepit prison in Iraqi Kurdistan, a senior interrogator with the Kurdish intelligence service decided, for my entertainment and edification, to introduce me to an al-Qaeda terrorist named Omar. “This one is crazy,” the interrogator said. “Don’t get close, or he’ll bite you.”
July 2, 2007 | By Nicholas Birch
IRBIL, Iraq - Growing tensions between Turkey and Kurds in control of northern Iraq belie a deepening cooperation, as Turkish companies, workers and goods flock to a market enriched by 17 percent of Iraq's oil revenues.
July 15, 2007 | By Paul de Bendern
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Pro-Kurdish politicians are poised to enter Turkey's parliament for the first time in more than a decade, bringing hope to many Kurds that their cultural and political rights will be addressed.
ANKARA, Oct 24 (AFP) - 11h39 - Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, in an interview published here Monday, suggested a "general amnesty" by Ankara for Turkey's Kurdish PKK rebels to end fighting in southwest Turkey.
Refugees in Va. Hamlet Arrested in Oct.
By Karin Brulliard - Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, June 18, 2006; A01
HARRISONBURG, Va. -- There is a Kurdish section at a cemetery in this Shenandoah Valley town. Four Kurdish babies were born in one recent week. And nearly a decade after the first Kurdish refugees settled here, the community has produced some reluctant celebrities.
February 23, 2008 | By ALISSA J. RUBIN and SABRINA TAVERNISE
BAGHDAD — Turkey’s military said Friday that it had sent troops into northern Iraq on Thursday night, in what Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey called a limited operation to weaken Kurdish militants there.
