Ryan Lenz : McCain visits Iraq on anniversary of Kurdish massacre
AP 17.03.2008 Senator John McCain, the likely Republican presidential nominee, arrived in Baghdad yesterday for a visit with Iraqi and US diplomatic and military officials.
Turkish incursion into Northern Iraq: Military Fiasco, Political Debacle
Canadian Dimension Blog, March 13th, 2008 The February incursion of the Turkish army into northern Iraq has ended in a terrible debacle for both U.S. and Turkey. The two allies are at loggerheads once again, after the thaw in their relations achieved at the White House talks between Bush and Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan on 5 November 2007. The Turkish government and the army are the object of unprecedented criticism by the bourgeois media and also by ordinary people. And, to add insult to injury for the USA, only three days after the withdrawal of Turkish troops from northern Iraq on February 29, a triumphant Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, the President of Iran, was shown on television screens around the world in Baghdad, presumably all smiles for having achieved the feat of being the first Iranian president to visit Iraq under U.S. occupation, 29 years after the Islamic revolution and 20 years of the deadly war between the two countries.
Shamal Mirza: Who Forced Turkish Withdrawal from Kurdistan?
Why Turkey Withdrew From Kurdistan?
To find out why Turkey pull its military forces out from south Kurdistan without any achievement there has been a several factors involve on this issue and I want briefly discuss the important dynamic of these forces.
The crisis between Turkey and Iraq, with the United States playing the uneasy role of mediator and friend to both, has escalated with the Turkish land operation launched on Friday. Following the spate of attacks last fall inside Turkey by the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, the Bush administration gave Turkey intelligence to facilitate air strikes against key PKK bases in remote Iraqi Kurdish mountains. Washington hoped this would prevent any Turkish military offensive inside Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraq's most stable region and the PKK's unwilling host. This policy has clearly failed.
Peter Stitt : PKK, Terrorists or Freedom Fighters?
Kurdishaspect 16.02.2008 the dominant world powers at the end of the First World War made some disastrous decisions in their search for a lasting peace that only guaranteed further conflict that continues to this day. Indeed, the very astute Winston Churchill said of the Treaty of Versailles (1919) that it ensured another world conflict within twenty years.
Crispin Thorold: 'Tragic protest' of Iraqi Kurdish women
BBC News The medical specialisms at this hospital are war surgery and burns.With the continuing violence in nearby Mosul and Diyala province, war surgery is in great demand. So too is the burns unit.
Hasan Cemal : Let us see if Prime Minister Erdogan will become an exception or n
Our paper Milliyet wrote yesterday some interesting news that may pave the way to discussions.Maybe this will be something good because the mistakes, especially by the state, during the last 80 years in relation to the Kurdish question will then be more clarified.
The Globe 30.01.2008 There is no chance that the Assad regime is going to change its mind about Kurds in Syria.The Syrian government has never really accepted its Kurdish community as equals to the Arab majority.
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AP 17.03.2008 Senator John McCain, the likely Republican presidential nominee, arrived in Baghdad yesterday for a visit with Iraqi and US diplomatic and military officials.
Canadian Dimension Blog, March 13th, 2008 The February incursion of the Turkish army into northern Iraq has ended in a terrible debacle for both U.S. and Turkey. The two allies are at loggerheads once again, after the thaw in their relations achieved at the White House talks between Bush and Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan on 5 November 2007. The Turkish government and the army are the object of unprecedented criticism by the bourgeois media and also by ordinary people. And, to add insult to injury for the USA, only three days after the withdrawal of Turkish troops from northern Iraq on February 29, a triumphant Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, the President of Iran, was shown on television screens around the world in Baghdad, presumably all smiles for having achieved the feat of being the first Iranian president to visit Iraq under U.S. occupation, 29 years after the Islamic revolution and 20 years of the deadly war between the two countries.
Why Turkey Withdrew From Kurdistan?
The crisis between Turkey and Iraq, with the United States playing the uneasy role of mediator and friend to both, has escalated with the Turkish land operation launched on Friday. Following the spate of attacks last fall inside Turkey by the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, the Bush administration gave Turkey intelligence to facilitate air strikes against key PKK bases in remote Iraqi Kurdish mountains. Washington hoped this would prevent any Turkish military offensive inside Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraq's most stable region and the PKK's unwilling host. This policy has clearly failed.
Kurdishaspect 16.02.2008 the dominant world powers at the end of the First World War made some disastrous decisions in their search for a lasting peace that only guaranteed further conflict that continues to this day. Indeed, the very astute Winston Churchill said of the Treaty of Versailles (1919) that it ensured another world conflict within twenty years.
BBC News The medical specialisms at this hospital are war surgery and burns.With the continuing violence in nearby Mosul and Diyala province, war surgery is in great demand. So too is the burns unit.
Our paper Milliyet wrote yesterday some interesting news that may pave the way to discussions.Maybe this will be something good because the mistakes, especially by the state, during the last 80 years in relation to the Kurdish question will then be more clarified.
The Globe 30.01.2008 There is no chance that the Assad regime is going to change its mind about Kurds in Syria.The Syrian government has never really accepted its Kurdish community as equals to the Arab majority.