Emrullah Uslu:Ankara Considering PKK's Proposals on Dialog
Turkey, the United States and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG)
have long worked toward ending the conflict between the PKK and Turkey.
On the one hand, the Kurdish leaders in Iraq tried to set up a national
conference in May, to declare a memorandum calling on the PKK to lay
down its arms. However, Turkey has increased its cooperation with the
U.S. and Iraqi Kurds in order to end the conflict militarily if the PKK
refuses to end its armed struggle (EDM, April 16). Against this background the PKK declared a unilateral ceasefire in
March and extended it until June 1. Despite that ceasefire, however,
the PKK targeted Turkish military units several times within the last
two weeks killing at least 11 soldiers (Hurriyet, Milliyet, April 30,
Zaman, May, 6).
Ahmet Atlan: It’s easy to say "PKK is a terrorist organization"
Have you watched it?In a wide, rural area fifty or sixty kids were "demonstrating", so they
say they were throwing stones at Special Operation police with heavy
weapons.What will happen if the police never go there?The kids will shout for a while, then disperse.These are kids, aged thirteen or fourteen, the place where they "demonstrate" is a huge rural area.Oh, no! Kurdish kids cannot demonstrate; they cannot shout in rural areas.
Bawer Cakir: Children on Trial are a Problem for Whole of Turkey
"It will not be a solution just to change Articles 9 and 13 of the Anti-Terrorism law. The scope of the law must exclude children under the age of 18.” More than 100 people have come together in an initiative called “Justice for Children”. They met at the Istanbul Chamber of Physicians on Tuesday, 14 April.
Kurdish Aspect 22.03.2009-Recently several news items have appeared in both Turkish and international media about a Kurdish summit to be held in Southern Kurdistan and including all the Kurdish parties from Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria. It is underscored that the main issue that will be discussed at this summit is going to be the future common policies of the Kurds which will be implemented due to the changes in the world.
Umit Bektas 22.03.2009-Hundreds of thousands of minority Kurds peacefully celebrated a traditional spring festival in Turkey on Saturday, showing greater cultural assertiveness after acquiring new rights.Revellers sang and danced around bonfires in Diyarbakir, the largest city in the Kurdish southeast, a region that has long been plagued by separatist violence and unemployment, but has become a battleground for votes in local elections on March 29.
Thomas Seibert: In Turkey, prosecutors shed light on dark days
The National 28.01.2009-A dark chapter of Turkey’s war against Kurdish rebels and their suspected supporters in the 1990s, when thousands of people were victims of kidnappings and extrajudicial killings, is back on the political agenda after the arrest of a former general and the apparent suicide of a former intelligence officer, both of whom were on duty in the Kurdish region in the most violent times of the conflict.
Wall Street Journal 15.12.2008-An abrupt and unusual word buried in a European Union declaration on Dec. 8 showed the mounting risks of a breakdown in Turkey's EU membership talks. Ankara's need to solve its problems with Cyprus, foreign ministers warned, has become "urgent." Thanks also to Turkey's failure to meet EU reform benchmarks since the negotiations started in 2005, a showdown looks inevitable over the next year.
Asia Times, 15.11.2008 -Turkey's stock markets, reflecting a stalling economy and doubts over International Monetary Fund loans in the run-up to polls next year, have intensified a year-long plunge, with a key benchmark tumbling more than 36% in barely 11 weeks.
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Have you watched it?In a wide, rural area fifty or sixty kids were "demonstrating", so they
say they were throwing stones at Special Operation police with heavy
weapons.What will happen if the police never go there?The kids will shout for a while, then disperse.These are kids, aged thirteen or fourteen, the place where they "demonstrate" is a huge rural area.Oh, no! Kurdish kids cannot demonstrate; they cannot shout in rural areas.
Kurdish Aspect 22.03.2009-
Umit Bektas 22.03.2009-