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MIDEAST: Turkey Gets Boost from Pipeline Politics
Ankara :: Turkey | 1 day ago
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The political geography of the modern Middle East has been affected for one hundred years by the appetite of westerners and other outsiders for the region's hydrocarbons. On Monday, the region's "pipeline politics" took another step forward with the signing...
Tags: Turkey, Nabucco, Iraq, Muslim Middle East, Arab Middle East, Middle Eastern, Iran, nabucco project, AKP, Azerbaijan, Ankara, Kurdistan, Nebuchadnezzar II, Kurdish people, Nabucco pipeline, Fertile Crescent, Iraqi Kurdistan, Politics
The 'execution' of a young Kurd
Sanandaj :: Iran | 4 days ago
Credibility He was arrested on 19 July 2008 in Kamiaran, a small town located between Sanandaj and his hometown Kermanshah. He had joined the Komala organisation, which opposes the Iranian regime and fights for democracy, freedom in Iran and the national rights for...
Tags: Ahmad Eskandari Ehsan Fattahian, Iranian, human rights, Kurdistan, Sanandaj, rights campaigner, Iran, Kurdistan Province, Iranian Revolution, Evin Prison, Iranian Kurdistan, Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran, Kurdish people, Fertile Crescent, Iraqi Kurdistan
PKK leader Ocalan gets company in prison
Ankara :: Turkey | 4 days ago
Credibility Turkey transferred five prisoners to the detention facility on Imrali Island housing Abdullah Ocalan , leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party. Justice officials have worked on plans to transfer more prisoners to the Imrali facility following the conclusion...
Tags: Kurdistan Workers' Party, PKK, Kurdistan Worker's Party, ‘Abdullah (name), Turkey, Ankara, Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights, Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights, Kurdish people, Kurdistan, Fertile Crescent, Abdullah ￃﾖcalan, Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights, Politics, Prisons in Turkey, ￄﾰmralￄﾱ, War Conflict, Law Crime, Massoud Barzani, Hikmet Fidan, Turkey￢ﾀﾓKurdistan Workers' Party conflict, Iraqi Kurdistan, Osman Ocalan
Abu Ghraib attack raises fears of resurgent Al Qaeda in Iraq
Baghdad :: Iraq | 5 days ago
Credibility The execution-style killings of 13 Iraqis over the weekend west of Baghdad has raised fears than a resurgent Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) is taking advantage of the gaps between retreating US forces and Iraqi troops not yet capable of maintaining security on...
Tags: Iraqi, Kurdistan, kurdistan region, Baghdad, U.S, kurds threatens, Iraq, Human rights in Iraq, Al-Qaeda in Iraq, Sunni Islam, Baghdad Central Prison, Ramadi, Politics, Iraqi insurgency, Iraq ￢ﾀﾓ United States relations, Terrorism in Iraq, War Conflict, Baha Mousa, Year of birth missing, Abu Ghraib, Raymond T. Odierno, Fertile Crescent, Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse, Government of Iraq, Jalal Talabani, Iraq War, Gulf War, Politics of Iraq, Occupation of Iraq, Chaldeans, Mosul, Kirkuk, suicide bombings in Iraq, Assyria, Ninawa Governorate
Former UN diplomat defends Kurdistan oil interests
Montpelier :: VT :: USA | 7 days ago
Credibility Vt. — A former U.S. ambassador who served as a private advisor to Kurdish leaders in Iraq defended his financial stake in oil fields in the country's north, insisting Saturday there was no conflict of interest. "I was a private citizen engaged in appropriate...
Tags: Kurdistan, Iraqi, Montpelier, Kurdish people, Iraq, Kirkuk, Saddam Hussein, Fertile Crescent, Iraqi Kurdistan, Peter W. Galbraith, Politics, Business Finance, Geography of Iraq
Letter to Financial Times: Positive Path for Kurdistan Links to Turkish Neighbour
London :: United Kingdom | 7 days ago
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Tags: Kurdistan Links, financial times, United Kingdom, London, Western Asia, Geography of Iraq, Kurdistan, Turkey, Iraq, Fertile Crescent, Iraqi Kurdistan, Politics of Iraq
Adviser Sees No Conflict In Kurdish Oil Deals
Dno :: Russia | 8 days ago
Credibility Peter Galbraith, a former U.S. diplomat and longtime adviser to ethnic Kurdish leaders in Iraq, is defending himself against accusations of a conflict of interest over a business deal he made with a Norwegian oil firm. Iraqi officials have criticized...
Tags: Peter Galbraith, Iraqi, Russia, Dno, Peter W. Galbraith, Kurdish people, Iraq, Kingdom of Kurdistan, Business Finance, Fertile Crescent, Iraqi Kurdistan, Kurdistan, Politics, Geography of Iraq, John Kenneth Galbraith, Politics of Iraq
U.S. adviser to Kurds criticized
Oslo :: Norway | 9 days ago
Credibility A former Iraqi ambassador to the United Nations expressed shock that a U.S. consultant to the Kurds may earn more than $100 million from an Iraqi oil deal. Peter Galbraith, a former U.S. ambassador to Croatia, who advocated on behalf of Kurds in northern...
Tags: Iraqi Kurdistan, Peter Galbraith, U.S, Norway, Oslo, John Kenneth Galbraith, Kurdish people, Iraq, Kurdistan, DNO International, Politics, Fertile Crescent, Peter W. Galbraith, Business Finance, Geography of Iraq, Politics of Iraq
Kurdish People Groups and Christianity?
Three Americans have been detained in Iran for crossing the border illegally. This story has hit all the news media markets. They were hiking through Iraq and inadvertently crossed over into Iran where they were arrested. Sounds like a reasonable...
Tags: Kurdish People Group, Iran, Iraq, Kurdistan, Person of Peace, Christianity, Muslim, Qur'an
Oil Refinery May Spark civil strife between Kurds and Arabs
The Kurds have opened their first oil refinery taking them one step closer to independence or alternatively further conflict with the central Iraq government and the Arab minority in the oil areas. The Kurds want to incorporate...
Tags: Iraq and Oil, Kurdistan, Kurd oil refinery, Kirkuk
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