Monday July 30, 2007 | Ewen MacAskill in Washington

Monday, January 19, 2009 | by İpek Özbey - Tempom

ISTANBUL - As state TV starts broadcasts on its new Kurdish language channel, promoting it as a significant achievement, Kurds want to live according to their culture. They want to show their language and culture deserves respect and pass their heritage to future generations

By Clifford D. May
Townhall.com | September 16, 2005

Jalal Talabani doesn't look much like Che Guevara. With his ample girth, white moustache and bemused smile, he more resembles a favorite uncle who can be counted on to buy ice cream and dispense sound advice.

But don't be misled: Talabani is a revolutionary. As a teenager in 1946, he founded an illegal student's organization; he joined his first revolt against an Iraqi regime in 1961.

 By Owen Matthews and Sami Kohen
Newsweek International

July31, 2006 issue - Israel launched airstrikes on Lebanon in response toattacks by Hizbullah earlier this month, and George W. Bush called it"self-defense." But what to tell the Turks, who over the last week lost15 sol-diers to terror attacks launched by sepa-ratist Kurds fromneighboring Iraq?

March 5, 2008  | By John D. McKinnon

WASHINGTON -- The perception that the U.S. troop surge in Iraq has succeeded is changing some public views of the war, potentially blunting Democrats' political edge on the issue.

ANKARA - Wednesday, February 9, 2005

'My advice to all Iraqi political leaders is this: Such rhetoric would lead them nowhere. What they should do is turn their faces towards Baghdad,' says Gül

March 12, 2008 | By SABRINA TAVERNISE

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s government is planning a broad series of investments worth as much as $12 billion in the country’s largely Kurdish southeast, in a new economic effort intended to create jobs and draw young men away from militancy, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.