August 24, 2006 - by Damien Cave
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Aug. 23 — Defense lawyers for Saddam Hussein accused a former Kurdish militant of treason on Wednesday, arguing on the third day of Mr. Hussein’s genocide trial that chemical attacks on Kurds were legitimate acts against local militias conspiring with Iran.
April 11, 2008 | By NAZILA FATHI
TEHRAN — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has decided to dismiss his economics and interior ministers, a government spokesman said in Iranian newspaper accounts published Thursday.
April 20, 2008 | Secretary Condoleezza Rice
Baghdad, Iraq - PRESIDENT TALABANI: (Via interpreter.) First of all, I want to start by thanking our guest and friend, Secretary Rice, for her visit. We started our meeting by thanking her for convincing our brothers from the Arabic Gulf Council to include (inaudible) in their conference tomorrow in Bahrain. And we gave her an update about Iraq and also, before me, Prime Minister Maliki gave her an update about what’s happening in Iraq. And we told her that we are living the Iraqi political spring.
7 March 2008
The United Nations envoy to Iraq has met with senior Turkish Government officials to discuss relations between the two neighbouring countries.
April 2, 2008
Democratic Society Party (DTP) parliamentary group leader Ahmet Türk has said the appeal to disband the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) is a product of a clash among forces within the state.
28 May 2008, Wednesday | TODAY'S ZAMAN ANKARA
The Democratic Society Party (DTP) received a blow from within yesterday as the chairman of the party's parliamentary group, Ahmet Türk, resigned from his post.
January 25, 2008 | By SABRINA TAVERNISE
IZMIR, Turkey — When Atilla Yayla, a maverick political science professor, offered a mild criticism of Turkey’s first years as a country, his remarks unleashed a torrent of abuse.
February 26, 2008 | By Asso Ahmed and Tina Susman, Special to The Times
The fighting between its ally and a Kurdish separatist group it considers a terrorist organization puts the Bush administration in a bind. 'They could do more,' an Iraqi official says.
SHILADEZAH, IRAQ -- Artillery and gunfire echoed through the mountains of northern Iraq on Monday during continued clashes between invading Turkish troops and Kurdish rebels, with Turkey saying that 153 guerrillas had been killed in four days.
Friday, Nov. 16, 2007 | By AP/SELCAN HACAOGLU
(ANKARA, Turkey) ��" Turkish authorities on Friday took steps to ban the country's leading pro-Kurdish political party and expel several of its lawmakers from parliament on charges of separatism.
May 29, 2008 | Secretary Condoleezza Rice | Stockholm, Sweden
SECRETARY RICE: Thank you all for being here today. The United States, of course, remains committed fully to fostering a sovereign, democratic, prosperous, and unified Iraq, a federal Iraq that is at peace with itself and at peace with its neighbors. And as we move forward with the International Compact with Iraq, the United States is deeply grateful to our international neighbors for their efforts in helping Iraq develop that framework and the mechanisms not only to transform economically, but to become a full, viable partner in the international economy.
