Mehmet Ali BIRAND : A new era is beginning with the DTP
TDN-The pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) made a very important decision.Up until today, the people comprising this party would enter the elections as a party and would be stuck to the 10 percent threshold each and every time. Except for the elections in 1994 that they entered under the Social Democrat People's Party (SHP) roof… This time around, the DTP decided to enter the elections with independent candidates.
Attack against Kurdish rebels risks strategic defeat, US says
FT-Before its latest political crisis erupted, Turkey had been pondering a military incursion into northern Iraq to attack Kurdish rebel bases just beyond its border. But the US has begun warning Ankara to learn a lesson from what some officials in Washington are starting to call Israel's "strategic defeat" in Lebanon under similar circumstances last summer.
TNA-Retired Chief of Joint Staff of the U.S. Army General Richard Myers stated on Saturday that fight against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is not a priority of the U.S. since essential struggle in Iraq is against the extremist groups that are violating Baghdad and other regions of Iraq.
BRUSSELS (AP) -- Police used a water-cannon to disperse crowds of ethnic Turks and Kurds who clashed Sunday after a Kurdish cafe in an immigrant neighborhood burned down.
IRNA-Today marks the nineteenth anniversary of Saddam Hussein's regime chemical weapons attack on Halabja, a Kurdish town located on the northeast of Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
Cengiz AKTAR: What to do with the refugees of Mahmour Village
TDN-Finding a solution to Mahmour refugees is important, because it will help show that Turkey does care for its citizens and can approach the Kurdish question not only with a focus on security, but also in a humanitarian as well as political way
AsiaTimes -Learning English was a hard struggle for Hassan Arinadi. The thickly bearded son of a respected dervish [1] grew up in an isolated Sunni-dominated Kurdish village that is also a mystical center for Iran's remote and volatile Kordestan province. Long days and nights of study paid off, and now Arinadi is the local English teacher, imparting long strings of grammatically sound if old-fashioned English sentences to his Kurdish pupils.
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TDN-The pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) made a very important decision.Up until today, the people comprising this party would enter the elections as a party and would be stuck to the 10 percent threshold each and every time. Except for the elections in 1994 that they entered under the Social Democrat People's Party (SHP) roof… This time around, the DTP decided to enter the elections with independent candidates.
FT-Before its latest political crisis erupted, Turkey had been pondering a military incursion into northern Iraq to attack Kurdish rebel bases just beyond its border. But the US has begun warning Ankara to learn a lesson from what some officials in Washington are starting to call Israel's "strategic defeat" in Lebanon under similar circumstances last summer.
TNA-Retired Chief of Joint Staff of the U.S. Army General Richard Myers stated on Saturday that fight against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is not a priority of the U.S. since essential struggle in Iraq is against the extremist groups that are violating Baghdad and other regions of Iraq.
BRUSSELS (AP) -- Police used a water-cannon to disperse crowds of ethnic Turks and Kurds who clashed Sunday after a Kurdish cafe in an immigrant neighborhood burned down.
IRNA-Today marks the nineteenth anniversary of Saddam Hussein's regime chemical weapons attack on Halabja, a Kurdish town located on the northeast of Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
IPS-The fragile quiet in this no-man's-land is broken by a young fighter shooting into the air at a regular morning ceremony to "commemorate martyrs".
TDN-Finding a solution to Mahmour refugees is important, because it will help show that Turkey does care for its citizens and can approach the Kurdish question not only with a focus on security, but also in a humanitarian as well as political way
AsiaTimes -Learning English was a hard struggle for Hassan Arinadi. The thickly bearded son of a respected dervish [1] grew up in an isolated Sunni-dominated Kurdish village that is also a mystical center for Iran's remote and volatile Kordestan province. Long days and nights of study paid off, and now Arinadi is the local English teacher, imparting long strings of grammatically sound if old-fashioned English sentences to his Kurdish pupils.