By SINAN SALAHEDDIN
The Associated Press - Monday, May 22, 2006; 5:58 PM

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Guards pulled the sole woman on Saddam Hussein's defense team from the court Monday after she had a shouting match with the chief judge, prompting her to throw off her lawyer's robe in rage.


  



By Richard A. Oppel Jr. The New York Times
[International Herald Tribune-MONDAY, MAY 16, 2005 (PARIS)]

BAGHDAD Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice flew to Iraq on Sunday to urge its new leaders to greatly increase the involvement of Sunni Arabs in writing the Iraqi constitution amid the growing alarm of American officials who fear that a chance to bring dispossessed Sunni Arabs into the fold is slipping away. And she issued a stern warning to neighboring Syria, accusing it of harboring Iraqi terrorists and "standing in the way of the Iraqi people's desire for peace."

  

Posted on Wed, Dec. 28, 2005
Some troops prepare to protect territory, ethnic, religious interests

Knight Ridder Newspapers

Kurdish leaders have inserted more than 10,000 of their militia members into Iraqi army divisions in northern Iraq to lay the groundwork to swarm south, seize the oil-rich city of Kirkuk and possibly half of Mosul, Iraq's third-largest city, and secure the borders of an independent Kurdistan.


  

ANKARA - Turkish Daily News
Tuesday, January 3, 2006

56 mayors in the Southeast face prosecution for their support of Roj TV

The Diyarbakır Prosecutor's Office has opened a criminal inquiry into a letter signed by 56 Democratic Society Party (DTP) mayors and sent to Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, asking him not to close down Roj TV, which broadcasts in Kurdish from Denmark.


  

 
By KIRK SEMPLE and RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. - Published: April 21, 2006

BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 20 - Under intense domestic and American pressure, Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari dropped his bid to retain his job on Thursday, removing a major obstacle to forming a new government during a time of rising sectarian violence.


  

 IRBIL, Iraq - By ANNE GEARAN, AP - Fri Oct 6, 8:07 AM ET - Convinced oil revenue is the long-term key to economic independence for a unified        Iraq, Secretary of State        Condoleezza Rice appealed Friday for cooperation from the autonomous and oil rich Kurdish north.

  


July 26, 2007 | Featuring Soner Cagaptay, Matthew Bryza, and Alan Makovsky

On July 23, 2007, Soner Cagaptay, Matthew Bryza, and Alan Makovsky addressed a Policy Forum at The Washington Institute. Dr. Cagaptay is a senior fellow and director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute. Mr. Bryza is deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs. Mr. Makovsky is a senior staff member with the House Committee on International Relations.


  


December 02, 2007 | By Abdel Hamid Zebari

ARBIL, Iraq (AFP) A leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) acknowledged on Sunday that rebel fighters had come under attack by Turkish helicopters inside Iraq but insisted they had suffered no casualties.


  


Friday August 15 2008 | Robert Tait in Istanbul

Ahmadinejad snubbed by breakdown of energy sale
Aim of president's visit thwarted by intervention

Turkey delivered a humiliating snub to Iran's visiting president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, yesterday by backing out of a lucrative energy deal under pressure from the US government, which feared it would enhance Iranian nuclear ambitions.


  


December 19th 2007 | ANKARA | From The Economist print edition

Raids across the border

AS IF Iraq did not have enough problems of its own. On December 16th Turkish aircraft bombed what they said were Kurdish rebel positions deep inside northern Iraq. It was one of the biggest cross-border air strikes in recent years and was followed by an incursion by about 300 Turkish troops. They were said to be lightly armed, and advanced only 3km (1.9 miles) into Iraq. But the two actions mark a big escalation of the traditional hostilities.