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Kurdish rebel commander warns Turkish state sabotaging peace
İstanbul :: Turkey | 16 hours ago
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Topics Murat Karayilan, acting military commander of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), speaks during an interview with Reuters at the Qandil mountains near the Iraq-Turkish border in Sulaimaniya, 330 km (205 miles) northeast of Baghdad March 24,
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2,000 join PKK in past three months
Ankara :: Turkey | 5 days ago
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About 2,000 people have joined the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party in the past three months, amid an agreement to end to terrorism in Turkey, officials say. In an efforts to end a decades-old terrorism problem in Turkey, last year the country's
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Iraq: 225 MPs didn't declare financial property, Integrity Commission
Baghdad :: Iraq | 7 days ago
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Iraqi Integrity Commission confirmed that 225 MPs did not declare their personal financial properties for the year 2013, in addition to the National Security Department and the State Ministry for Provincial Affairs. It added that 100 MPs reported
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1,000 Iraqi Kurdish...
Kirkūk :: Iraq | 8 days ago
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More than 1,000 Kurdish career soldiers in the Iraqi army have deserted and want to be integrated into the Kurdish former rebel peshmerga militia. The move comes after the Kurdish troops disobeyed orders to take part in an operation ordered by the
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This genie should not be tricked back into its bottle
London :: United Kingdom | 8 days ago
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A new language of freedom and democracy has been emerging in Turkey in the past decade. This atmosphere was created by removing the military's influence from civilian life and politics and, recently, by opening roads towards peace between Turkey and
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Victims of Saddam-era gas attack seek French probe
Berlin :: Germany | 10 days ago
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Twenty victims of Saddam Hussein's 1988 chemical weapons attack on the Kurdish town of Halabja are demanding a French judicial investigation of the companies that supplied the materials. Halabja marked the deadliest chemical weapons attack against
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Movie review: Bekas
Baghdad :: Iraq | 11 days ago
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Dear God, please let me and my brother go to America and meet Superman." So says Kurdish boy Zana (Zamand Taha), a 6-year-old living in northern Iraq in 1990, when Kurds were desperate to escape Saddam Hussein. Orphaned and homeless but full of
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Protests in Turkey must not overshadow progress with Kurd militants
İstanbul :: Turkey | 17 days ago
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The peace deal is good for Turkey, and gives it leverage with Iran, Syria, and Iraq. Washington Just when Turkey should be receiving accolades for its recent peace agreement with separatist militants, that progress is being overshadowed by the
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A Rich Look at the Kurds, #4
New York City :: NY :: USA | 17 days ago
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Mon 3 Jun 2013 When the British diplomat Claudius James Rich wrote his travel account of Kurdistan , little was known in Europe about the history of the Kurds as a distinct cultural group. At the end of his narrative, Rich provides a table of major
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Turkey: Violent protests enter second day (Video)
Friday, protesters were out on the streets of Turkey's former capital, Istanbul, after police fired tear gas on people holding a peaceful sit-in. The protest was against plans to redevelop one of the city's few remaining green-areas,
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