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April 30, 2006
Iranian Forces Enter
Southern Kurdistan
Gul: Ankara Will
Not Be Drawn Into Any US Or Israel Military Operations Against Iran
News Snapshot
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Commenting on massing of some 200,000 Turkish troops, backed by tanks and
helicopter gunships along the border with Southern Kurdistan, Massoud
Barzani warned last week that if Turkey tries "to stop our people from
profiting or progressing," then Turkey's own "stability and security" would
suffer.
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Dr. Roya Toloui, a champion of women's rights, arrived in Washington
yesterday fleeing with her two sons from the Iranian forces occupying
Eastern Kurdistan. Violently tortured for 66 days, Dr. Toloui is an
outspoken critic of the policies of the Islamic regime and its negative
impact on the rights of women in Eastern Kurdistan. |
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April 29, 2006
Turkish FM
says US Gave Green Light to Turkish Forces to Move Inside Southern Kurdistan
Southern Kurdistan
Buzzes As Other Parts Of Iraq Burn
Freedom And Arrest
News Snapshot
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The
American-backed terrorist state of Turkey has charged 175 Kurds with
involvement in last month's uprising against the Turkish regime. Charges
include violating repressive decrees against freedom of expression and
demonstration. Possible sentences range from three years to a maximum life
imprisonment. The latest charges bring the number of Kurds targeted thus far
to 265, including 80 minors who could face up to 24 years imprisonment. |
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April 28, 2006
U.S.
Investors Cautious On Kurdistan
Turkey Hits Out At Iraq
Over Kurdish Rebels
Militia's Numbers Grow In
key Iraqi city
Concern Rising About
Kurdish Discontent In Northern Kurdistan
News Snapshot
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Two Turkish soldiers were killed and another wounded
in an armed attack by Kurdish peshmerga on a paramilitary troop station in
Northern Kurdistan, reported AFP. In the attack, late Wednesday, Kurdistan
Workers' Party (PKK) rebels threw a hand grenade at the station, in the
village of Karsilar in Dersim province, and then opened fire on it, the
source said. |
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April 25, 2006
Kurds Quietly Angle For Independence
News Snapshot
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Northern Kurdistan leader Leyla Zana arrived
in Arbil yesterday. During a four-day visit, Zana is expected to discuss
with Barzani and Talabani the Kurdish uprising and the killing of children
last month by the terrorist state of Turkey, reported AFP
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Eighty children who took part in uprising in Northern Kurdistan face
up to 15 years in prison, according to an indictment seen by Reuters on
Tuesday. If convicted, the children, aged between 12 and 18, face between 10
and 15 years in jail. They are expected to go before a judge in the coming
days.
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A Turkish court Tuesday sentenced three Kurdistani university students to
more than six years in jail each for circulating a petition supporting
Ocalan. The court rejected the defendants' arguments that they were using
their right of freedom of expression. |
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April 23, 2006
Talabani Defends
Kurdish Peshmerga
Turkish General Vows
Intensified Offensives Against Kurdish Rebels
Talabani
Expresses Concern Over Turkish, Iranian Troop Build-Up On The Border
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April 22, 2006
Divide And Heal
Kurdish
Freedom Fighters Say Turkey Preparing For Incursion Into Southern Kurdistan
Talabani Wins Second
Term As Iraqi President
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April 20, 2006
Turkish Army Sends Extra 40,000
Troops To Northern Kurdistan
"Democracy", The Turkish Way
50 Pro-Kurdish DTP
Executives Kidnapped By Turkish Regime
Rights
Groups: Abuses On the Rise in Northern Kurdistan
Turkey Seeks To
Extend Anti-Kurdish Law
Kurds Aim for Own Oil
Ministry
Two-year-Old Girl Held In
Custody For Four Days
News Snapshot
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The PUK has delayed submitting names of candidates to hold ministerial posts
in the reunified Kurdish government because the central government in
Baghdad has yet to be formed. Kurdish prime minister Nechirvan Barzani
expected to receive the candidates' names by April 14, but the deadline has
been extended until the end of this month, reported Hawlati |
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April 18, 2006
Turkey Going Backwards, Fast
The Race to Tap The Next
Gusher
News Snapshot
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The terrorist state of Turkey kidnapped eight more politicians
in
the Nusaybin district of Mardin, including DTP Nusaybin branch head Naif
Coşkun,
for taking part in funerals for Kurdish freedom fighters last week that
sparked some of the worst street fighting with the occupying Turkish
security forces in a decade.
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The well-known German politician from the Greens Party, Claudia Roth arrived
at Amed last week. She met Mayor of Amed Osman Baydemir, who welcomed
her in Kurdish and she replied in Kurdish. "The use of weapons by both
sides
(Kurds and Turkish regime)
must end; there's no solution through force and there has to be a solution
to the problem very soon," said Roth.
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The board of Kurdistan university announced that the new university will
open in September (in Southern Kurdistan capital of Erbil.) University
president Wali said the university was formed by the Kurdish government and
will provide free education to students. The curriculum will be entirely in
English. The university has ties to British universities and students can
later transfer to British universities, reported KDP paper Xabat. |
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April 16, 2006
News Snapshot
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Tens of thousands of Kurds took part in a protest march Saturday to demand
the European Union do more to promote Kurdish rights in Northern Kurdistan
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A journalist wounded during the uprising in Northern
Kurdish last month has died, bringing the death toll from the violence
to 16 victims, reported AFP. Ilyas Aktas was hit in the head by a tear gas
grenade fired by Turkish police in the city of Amed on March 30. He died
Friday and was buried on Saturday. |
The Kurds : A People in
Search of Their Homeland. By Kevin McKiernan
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April 15, 2006
HRW: Turkey Still Covering Up
Human Rights Abuses
Kurd party Slams Turk Govt,
Army, EU Over Clashes
Turkey Seen Losing EU
Reform Drive, German Party Leader
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April 13, 2006
Human Rights
Researcher Detained Over Visa Infringement
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April 10, 2006
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April 9, 2006 |
Child dragged
by Turkish security |
News Snapshot
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According the Turkish paper Milliyet, the Turkish regime has deployed
numerous military units near border with Southern and Western Kurdistan. In
light of the recent uprising in Amed, the Turkish junta is apparently
planning a large operation against Kurdish freedom fighters in Northern
Kurdistan.
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At a meeting held at the American Enterprise Institute, Zapsu, consultant to
Erdogan, responded to Richard Perles allegations of meetings with Hamas,
by saying, We would meet again to achieve peace. When American
New-Conservative official gave the response, How would you feel about us
meeting with the PKK?, Zapsu said, You are already meeting with them.
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Prospects Of
Kurdish Statehood
Kurdish Activist,
Taxi Driver Jailed In Syria: lawyer
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April 8, 2006
Letter To The PM Of Turkey From
Members Of The European Parliament
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It is unacceptable
that the Kurds of Turkey, a community of at least 18 million people, cannot
exercise any significant fundamental right related to their cultural, social
and political identity, and that the government in Ankara refuses to
recognise that people's identity;
More.. |
Free Kurdistan
Publisher Stands
Trial For Barzani Book
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April 7, 2006
News Snapshot
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The terrorist state of Turkey on Thursday kidnapped four politicians in
Northern Kurdistan for taking part in funerals for Kurdish freedom fighters
last week that sparked some of the worst street fighting with the occupying
Turkish security forces in a decade.
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Thousands of demonstrators gathered in the capital city of Southern
Kurdistan Hewler to demand that the parliament take a stand and condemn the
terrorist state of Turkey over the their barbaric act of killing women and
children in Northern Kurdistan ."We call on the people of Southern Kurdistan
to support their brothers in Northern Kurdistan and their uprising," said a
leader of the demonstration, Faiq Kawlabi.
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European parliamentarians' attempt to introduce a debate on Northern
Kurdistan during a meeting slated for May in Ankara drew strong reaction
from Turkish regime. The Turkey-EU Joint Parliamentary Committee convened on
Tuesday in Strasbourg to determine the agenda of its upcoming meeting in
Ankara. Turkey said they were dead against the inclusion of an item on
developments in Northern Kurdistan. |
Turkish PM
Angrily Denies Responsibility For Cold-Blooded Murder Of Kurdish Children
Turkish Dialogue with
Barzani
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April 6, 2006
Five Turkish soldiers
killed in clashes with Kurdish rebels
Iranian
Ambassador: US Looking To Carve Kurdish State From Turkey, Iran And Syria
Southern Kurdistan Budget $2.826
Billion, Hawlati Paper On Trial
Pro Kurdish Sit-In At
Turkish Embassy
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April 5, 2006
Kurdish TV Says
Into Journalism Not Propaganda
12 Ansar
al-Islam Members Sentenced To Death
Northern Kurdistan Looks to Southern Kurdistan for Inspiration
Turkish PM Promises More
Democracy, Welfare For Kurds After Riots
Sex And Islam
Author Says He Fears For His Life, But Some Call Him A Publicity Hound
News Snapshot
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Iran's ambassador to Turkey, Firouz Dowlatabadi, warned in an interview
published Tuesday that Turkey, Iran and Syria need a joint policy on the
Kurdish issue or "the U.S. will carve pieces from us for a Kurdish state,"
reported AP
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Human rights group Amnesty International criticized Syria on Tuesday for
continuing to arrest human rights activists, calling the political crackdown
"a blot" on the country's poor human rights record. The statement came a day
after a Syrian state security court sentenced Kurdish human rights activist
Riad Drar to five years in prison after convicting him on charges of
disseminating false news, inciting sectarian riots and forming a secret
organization. |
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April 3, 2006
Kurdish Main party In
Northern Kurdistan Accuses Turkish Regime Over Deadly Rioting
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