reports & opinions
 

Willing Victims?

Rashid Karadaghi. July 31, 2002
Kurds Savor a New, and Endangered, Golden Age
John F. Burns. July 28, 2002

Halabja, Must Never be Forgotten
Siamand Banaa. July 24, 2002
First It Was the Jews; Then It Was the Kurds; Will the Americans beNext?
Kani Xulam.  July 22, 2002 

Democracy, Federalism and Iraq.

Sardar Akrei. July 18, 2002


Occupier friends of the Kurds
Simko. July 1, 2002 


July 31, 2002
• Kurds aiming for final agreement next week
• Trouble brews between Kurds/Islamic rebels in Iraq 

July 30, 2002
• KDP and PUK  Set to Seal Agreement on Implementing Four-Year-Old Peace Deal
The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) of Massoud Barzani and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) led by Jalal Talabani are expected to announce here Wednesday that they have agreed on "final formulas for resolving" the remaining issues in dispute
• Kurds tell of Iraqi war ignored by outside world 
We need to have guarantees for our future in Iraq, guarantees for our future security. My people have suffered so much, we must not put them in harm's way unnecessarily," said Barham Salah, prime minister of part of Kurdish-held northern Iraq.

• Former US diplomat visits Iraqi Kurdistan
• Turkey's Kurdish party sees no ban before polls 

July 29, 2002
• Two Kurdish guerrillas killed in Southern Kurdistan
• Some Top Military Brass Favor Status Quo in Iraq
• U.S. Invites Iraqi Opposition Groups to Discuss Overthrow of Saddam
• Italy Police Smash Immigrant Smuggling Ring

July 25, 2002
• Washington will not lay the groundwork for a "provisional government"

July 24, 2002
• Iraqi Kurds Fear Islamic Militant Group
• Attack by Islamist Radicals in Kurdistan Brings Kurdish Factions Closer
• Sweden Arrests Kurd in Immigrant "Honor Killing"
• Turkey set for November polls, EU reforms in doubt

July 23, 2002
• Kurdish Leader Calls for the Elimination of Ladenite Ansar Al-Islam. 
The Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani received a delegation of Sheikhs and spiritual leadersof the Naqshabandi Sufi order, headed by Sheikh Thabit Aladdin who presented Mr.Talabani with a memorandum, on behalf of the Naqshabandi Tarika, which strongly condemns the crimes committed by the terrorist rogue group, Ansar Al-Islam
July 22, 2002
• PUK Party Praises London Meeting 
• Iraqis have duty to overthrow Saddam-Islamist 

July 21, 2002
• Ecevit: "We Can Not Allow the de-facto Kurdish State to Go any Further" 
• Turkey's Ecevit warns Islamists, Kurds pose "very serious" problem 

July 19, 2002
• Talabani: US "determined" to overthrow Saddam 
• Iraq's Kurds assess risk of backing the US 
Mr Salih, an articulate, western-educated moderate and one of a much-needed new generation of Kurdish leaders, adds: "The consequences and the risks are very dire for our people, no doubt about it. 

July 18, 2002
• HADEP gives a conditional "yes"

July 17, 2002
• Wolfowitz Assures That U.S. Finds Kurdish State "Unacceptable" 
• Turkey: Four Conditions in Return For Saddam 

July 16, 2002
• Kurds are arrested for trying to study their own language
• KADEK’s Karayalin Views Political Situation, Alliances 

July 15, 2002
• US Rules Out Kurdish State
• Saddam lives on borrowed time 
• Kurdish Official Downplays Significance of Opposition Meeting

July 14, 2002
• The Kurdish Jihadis
• Kurdish lover sent packing

July 12, 2002
• Jalal Shaban, Co- Founder of the KNC, Dies at Age 64
• HADEP: We are ready for the election 
• Documentary Says Al Qaeda Gunmen in Northern Iraq

July 11, 2002
• Rebel groups reject CIA overtures down on the farm

July 10, 2002
• Turkish Pressure Halts Flights from Germany to Urmia and Southern Kurdistan
• Kurds Draw up post-Saddam Constitution for Iraq
• High-ranking PKK Member Jailed For Three Years in Germany 
• Pro-Saddam Fighters Attack Kurds
• Statement by Ministry of Industry and Energy (KDP) on Electricity Supply
• The enduring pain of Halabja

July 9, 2002
• Kurdish leader Talabani in Talks With Saudi Officials: PUK
• Ocalan Ocalan: USA will make massacre
• UN Deal Leaves Iraq Kurds at Baghdad's Mercy

July 8, 2002
• Kurds, Secure in North Iraq, Are Cool to a U.S. Offensive
• Political Changes Reduce Kurdistan Honor Killings
• Ladenite Ansar Al-Islam Commits New Terrorist Act
• Top Court to Deliberate on HADEP Objections in Closure Case 

 

July 5, 2002