Christopher de Bellaigue : The Uncontainable Kurds
Since the Turkish Republic was set up in 1923, no Turkish statesman has shown the necessary combination of courage and imagination to resolve the question of how the country's ethnic Kurds, who are now estimated to number fifteen million people, should be treated. Turkey's leaders have tried variously to isolate the Kurds, integrate them, and repress them, hoping that they might agree to live unobtrusively in a state that was set up on the premise that all its inhabitants, except for a small number of non-Muslim minorities, are Turks.
In mountains of Iraq, Kurds train rigorously to battle Iran
AP-(QANDIL MOUNTAIN RANGE, Iraq -) Deep in the mountains of northern Iraq, a cluster of mud huts and the chatter of machine gun fire reveal another piece of the jigsaw puzzle called Kurdistan.
LosAngelesTimes-American officials, regional leaders and residents are increasingly worried that this northern oil-rich city could develop into a third front in the country’s civil war just as additional US troops arrive in Baghdad and Al Anbar province as reinforcements for battles there.
New York (KurdishMedia.com) 29 January 2007: Residents of Amed (Diyarbakir), northern Kurdistan, on Monday report a notable increase in the presence of undercover police in the city.
TDN-Turkey communicates the unease to the Iraqi national oil company, with State Minister Tüzmen saying, ‘Those who want to test Turkey will pay a price’
Tension on the rise between Kurds, Turkmen and Arabs over Kirkuk’s fate
AP-KIRKUK, Iraq - When Abdul-Karim Wadi, a Shiite Arab, got what amounted to thousands of dollars cash and a free apartment to move to Kirkuk from Baghdad 18 years ago, he says he didn't know he was a tool of Saddam Hussein's campaign to flood the ethnically mixed, oil-rich city with Arabs.
TDN-In response to the Turkish Parliament's decision to call an extraordinary meeting to discuss neighboring Iraq, the local Kurdish Parliament in northern Iraq yesterday called for an emergency “Turkey” session, reported the Doğan News Agency (DHA).
Sabah-Autonomous Kurdish District President Neciryan Barzani has claimed that Kirkuk belongs to Kurdistan. Barzani also said that Kurds have the right to establish a state.
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Since the Turkish Republic was set up in 1923, no Turkish statesman has shown the necessary combination of courage and imagination to resolve the question of how the country's ethnic Kurds, who are now estimated to number fifteen million people, should be treated. Turkey's leaders have tried variously to isolate the Kurds, integrate them, and repress them, hoping that they might agree to live unobtrusively in a state that was set up on the premise that all its inhabitants, except for a small number of non-Muslim minorities, are Turks.
AP-(QANDIL MOUNTAIN RANGE, Iraq -) Deep in the mountains of northern Iraq, a cluster of mud huts and the chatter of machine gun fire reveal another piece of the jigsaw puzzle called Kurdistan.
LosAngelesTimes-American officials, regional leaders and residents are increasingly worried that this northern oil-rich city could develop into a third front in the country’s civil war just as additional US troops arrive in Baghdad and Al Anbar province as reinforcements for battles there.
New York (KurdishMedia.com) 29 January 2007: Residents of Amed (Diyarbakir), northern Kurdistan, on Monday report a notable increase in the presence of undercover police in the city.
TDN-Turkey communicates the unease to the Iraqi national oil company, with State Minister Tüzmen saying, ‘Those who want to test Turkey will pay a price’
AP-KIRKUK, Iraq - When Abdul-Karim Wadi, a Shiite Arab, got what amounted to thousands of dollars cash and a free apartment to move to Kirkuk from Baghdad 18 years ago, he says he didn't know he was a tool of Saddam Hussein's campaign to flood the ethnically mixed, oil-rich city with Arabs.
TDN-In response to the Turkish Parliament's decision to call an extraordinary meeting to discuss neighboring Iraq, the local Kurdish Parliament in northern Iraq yesterday called for an emergency “Turkey” session, reported the Doğan News Agency (DHA).
Sabah-Autonomous Kurdish District President Neciryan Barzani has claimed that Kirkuk belongs to Kurdistan. Barzani also said that Kurds have the right to establish a state.