By STEVEN R. WEISMAN - Published: April 26, 2006

ANKARA, Turkey, April 25 - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice assured Turkish leaders on Tuesday that the United States would step up efforts to stop Kurdish insurgents in Iraq from infiltrating into Turkey, but she cautioned the government not to send troops to Iraq to do the job.


  


September 10, 2007 | By Chip Cummins

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Hunt Oil Co. has struck a deal to explore for oil in Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdish region, signaling a new willingness by some large Western companies to bypass the fractious government in Baghdad and deal directly with regional authorities in the war-torn country.


  


February, 14th 2008 | ISTANBUL

What lies behind the row over lifting the headscarf ban in universities

TO TURKEY'S secular elite it is a step back to the dark ages; to its conservatives, an overdue right. Either way, the constitutional changes approved by parliament to ease the ban on the wearing of the Muslim headscarf in universities will trigger a new battle between the mildly Islamist prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and his secular opponents.


  


March 24, 2008

ANKARA, Turkey —" Police broke up a protest Monday by hundreds of demonstrators in a fifth straight day of clashes with Kurds in southeastern Turkey.


  

By James Dobbins International Herald Tribune
SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 2005

Info WASHINGTON The last time American diplomats locked a group of prospective founding fathers in a room with orders not to come out until they had a constitution was a decade ago, in Dayton, Ohio. The founding fathers in question represented Bosnia's Muslim, Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christian communities.

  


By Yigal Schleifer, Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
Fri Apr 21, 2006

From her small apartment in this ancient city, Rabia Celikmilek has access to the entire world. A satellite dish on the roof of her crumbling brick building streams 452 TV channels, with programs from almost every continent.


  

  By STEVEN R. HURST, Associated Press Writer  - BAGHDAD, Iraq - A blood-drenched October has passed into a violent early November as a motorcycle rigged with explosives ripped through a crowded Shiite market in Sadr City on Thursday and suspected Sunni insurgent gunmen killed a Shiite dean of Baghdad University.

  

LONDON, July 28 (AFP) - 3h42 - Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday threatened to take action against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq unless US-led forces intervene to stop them from crossing the border.

  



Wednesday, January 17, 2007

LONDON - The Iraqi government is moving to solidify relations with Iran, even as the United States turns up the rhetorical heat and bolsters its military forces to confront Tehran's influence in Iraq, Times reported.

  


April 30, 2008 | Author:  Greg Bruno

In March, despite few signs of progress on an Iraqi national oil law, the Kurdistan Regional Government’s Ministry of Natural Resources readied for a hiring spree. Calls went out for legal advisors, engineers, and geoscientists—"thirty-five oil and gas experts in all.