Iraqi President Jalal Talabani is responding well to treatment for
exhaustion in Jordan and tests show clear improvement in his condition, his
office said in a statement on Tuesday, Reuters reported
In a television interview broadcast Monday on the
Turkish NTV, the president of Southern Kurdistan Barzani said that Turkey
and Iran should get used to the idea of Kurds' right to independence.
Barzani added that the peshmerga will not fight against PKK forces in
Southern Kurdistan. Also, Barzani said Kirkuk is the heart of Kurdistan and
dismissed Turkish calls for a postponement of a referendum on its status
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Iran's Revolutionary Guards said today that 14 military personnel were
killed in a helicopter crash during a recent operation against the Party of
Free Life of Kurdistan in Eastern Kurdistan. The Kurdish party said that its
forces have shot down an Iranian military helicopter in Khoy area with a
shoulder-launched missile.
President Jalal Talabani is ill and has flown to neighboring Jordan for medical
treatment, his office said Sunday, adding there was "no cause for worry."
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According to the daily Hurriet, the Turkish military is now considering meeting
with President Barzani. The Turkish military will ask the government of Southern
Kurdistan to cooperate with Turkish forces against the freedom fighters of
Northern Kurdistan and to delay the Kirkuk referendum. In other words, the
Turkish military thugs want Southern Kurdistan to help them repress Kurds and
their aspirations for independence.
President Barzani to the French
newspaper, Le Monde: I dont believe that Turks will dare to lead an aggression,
nor they will dare to pass the border. I am confident in the fact that they
understand the consequences (of a such decision). The road would not be paved
with flowers to welcome them.
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Fearing that he will be given the boot,
the Turkish PM Erdogan said he will not negotiate with Southern Kurdistan
President until the Turkish general mobster Yasar Buyukanit give him the
permission to do that.
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The terrorist state of Turkey sentenced
33 Kurdish students to 3 years and 9 months
imprisonment for chanting PKK slogans during a cultural festival held
at Trakya University in 2004, reported Turkish Zaman
Iran's Foreign Ministry denied Sunday that radical Iraqi
Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr was in Iran, calling statements by U.S. and Iraqi
officials saying he had traveled to Iran "psychological warfare," reported AP
today.
Citizens of Adhamyia, the Sunni neighborhood in Baghdad which has been besieged
by Iraqi-American troops told Gulf News that Kurdish forces from the Iraqi army
are participating with US troops in enclosing the neighborhood which is believed
to include Sunni armed men. Amer Al Hussaini, a prominent figure in the Shiite
Sadr group, told Gulf News: "Some Kurdish forces are seen stationed in some
entrances of the Sadr Shiite neighborhood."
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For the third time in less than two years, a 'charter flight' left the RAF
Brize Norton military base in Oxfordshire today, carrying 50+ Kurdish asylum
seekers, who had been arrested and detained from across the UK, to Erbil,
Southern Kurdistan.
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Iraqi Supreme Criminal Court has sentenced Taha Yassin Ramadan, vice
president of the ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussin, to hanging for crimes
against humanity for his role in the Dujail case.
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Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari criticized the Turkish stance toward
the oil-rich northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, saying that Kirkuk was not a
city that belonged to Turkey and that the residents of Kirkuk would resolve
their problems under the Iraqi Constitution, reported the Turkish private
NTV.
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News Snapshot
US Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has the power to determine which
resolutions should go to a House floor vote, has pledged to back Armenian
genocide recognition efforts, and a clear majority of representatives is
believed to be backing the latest genocide measure. Pelosi declined to meet
Turkey's foreign minister Abdollah Gul during his visit to Washington this week.
The Iraqi Supreme Committee has issued a decision for the application of Article
140 of its permanent constitution, which seeks the normalization of the
situation in the Iraqi (Kurdish) city of Kirkuk. The decision specifies the
return of the Arabs, who had come to reside in Kirkuk as a result of the
Arabization policy, to their places of origin in central and southern Iraq, in
addition to providing them with financial compensation.
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Iraqi President and Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani said on Friday that "an
independent Kurdistan will not survive," due to its landlocked character and
opposition of neighboring countries Turkey, Syria and Iran. "Think about for a
moment that these countries will not attack us but close their border gates. How
are we going to survive? Yes we have oil but how are we going to export our
oil?" Talabani said in an interview with the American magazine The New Yorker.
In the Kurdish city of Kirkuk, eight bombs exploded within two
hours, beginning with a suicide car bomber who targeted the offices of the
Kurdistan Democratic Party, police said. Two people were killed and five
KDP guards were wounded. Another car bomb exploded about 20 minutes later near a
girls' school in the south of the city, no casualties were reported,
police said. A third car bomb hit a gas station in southern Kirkuk, followed by
two other parked car bombs 20 minutes later near a popular pastry shop. Eight
people were wounded in those explosions. A sixth car bomb wounded five other
people in southern Kirkuk, while two roadside bombs targeted police patrols at
about the same time in a predominantly Christian area in the north of the city.
