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March 31, 2006
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Mosul Slips Out Of Control
As The Bombers Move In
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US Encouraged By
Tehran's Enemy Within
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March 30, 2006
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Turkish Army Besieges Kurdish City
Amed In Northern Kurdistan
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Three Iran Guards Killed In
Kurdish Clash - report
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Mariwan
Halabjaye Takes Refuge In Sweden
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March 29, 2006
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Dozens Injured In Clashes
With Pro-Kurd Rebel Mourners
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US Tells Jafaari To Step Down
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Turkish
Prosecutor Risks Sanctions by Turkish Military Gangs
March 28, 2006
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News Snapshot
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Massoud Barzani, President of Southern Kurdistan, delegated Nechirvan
Barzani, prime minister of the unified Kurdistan government and Omar Fatah,
deputy prime minister, to form their cabinet in a month. Nechirvan Barzani
said in a joint press conference with Barzani, "Unifying the people in this
period is more important than anything else," reported PUK's Kurdistani Nwe. |
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Syrian Regime Arrests 100
Kurds After New Year Clashes
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U.S. Troops May Find It
Impossible To Steer Clear Of Iraq Civil War
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March 25, 2006
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Halabja
Protesters May Face Death Penalty
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Investigative judge Karwan Wrya Ali said that under a Baathist-era law
adopted by the Iraqi Kurdistan government, the punishment for destroying
government property is life in prison or death by hanging. "Anyone convicted
of setting the monument on fire will be executed," he said.
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US Tells
Turkey Time Not Ripe For Military Action Against Kurdish Rebel
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Syria: Rights Activists
Detained In Crackdown
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Kurdish
Broadcasts Start, But More Reforms Needed
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March 24, 2006
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News Snapshot
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In meaningless steps, the Turkish
regime will allow private television stations to begin Kurdish language
broadcasts on Thursday. However, these broadcasts will be limited to 45
minutes per day, or four hours per week, and they must carry Turkish
subtitles. They are also prevented from airing educational programs
teaching the Kurdish language or those directed at children.
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Turkish Regime Arrests A
Kurdish Leader In Hakkari
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Kurds
Unhappy Despite Language Broadcasts
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March 23, 2006
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Halabja Protest Tests Kurdish Unity
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Insurgent Doctor Killed Dozens
Of Wounded Soldiers
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The First Head To Roll In The Semdinli Mystery
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March 21, 2006
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Festive Kurds Want
Freedom For Rebel Chief Ocalan
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"The PKK never hurt us. If it was a terrorist organization, you would not
see all these people here celebrating and cheering for them and for Ocalan,"
said Ramazan Ekin, 28, who works at a local cafe.
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EU Raps Ankara For Pace
Of Reforms
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Turkish Military
Angrily Denies Wrongdoings
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Syrian Police,
Kurds Clash In Aleppo
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News Snapshot
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The PM of Southern Kurdistan Nechirvan Barzani inaugurated Kurdistan's first
Commercial Bank in Arbil yesterday. “No country can advance without an
advanced banking system. The big problem that the investors and businessmen
were complaining of was the lack of a banking system in Kurdistan. Now, this
bank uses visa card system and will solve their problems in transferring
money," said Barzani reported KTV |
March 20, 2006
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Syria Regime Sentences Eight
Dissidents To Prison: Lawyer
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Clashes As People In
Northern Kurdistan Mark New Year
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Kurdish Authorities
Vow To Upgrade Services After Protests
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Kurds Blame Iranians For Drugs
And More
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Divided, Iraq Might Just Have A Chance
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Documents Show
Saddam Approved WMD Strike On Kurdish Positions In 1987
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March 18, 2006
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News Snapshot
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An Iraqi Foreign Ministry source say the Kurdish government intends to
invite oil major companies for talks over investment projects in Southern
Kurdistan. The companies will include Royal Dutch Shell, Total, Lukoil, BP
and ConocoPhilips. Sources close to acting Iraqi Oil Minister Hashemi say he
is preparing to advise the central government in Iraq to punish any foreign
company trying to bypass the Oil Ministry and conclude contracts with the
Kurdish government. |
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Turkey Bars Civil
Servants From Kurdish Festival
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March 16, 2006
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Kurds Turn
Violent In Protest Against Their Leaders
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Many Kurds have
grown angry at what they view as the corruption and tyranny of the two
dominant political parties here. They accuse their regional government of
stealing donations gathered to help survivors of the poison gas attack.
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Protesters Burn
Halabja Memorial, Chanting "All Government Officials Are Corrupt."
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The demonstrators
marched through the city chanting "we don't want any government officials
here" and waved banners saying "you have done nothing for the city" and "all
government officials are corrupt". "We burned this building because the
local officials are making a lot of money from international organizations
due to the attack against our town and pocketing it, we don't see a penny of
that money," said Cardo Hassan, one of the demonstrators.
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Kurds, Sunnis
Must Respect Democracy: Iraqi PM
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March 15, 2006
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Eastern Kurdistan (Iran)
Political Parties Meet to Form a United Front
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News Snapshot
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The Kurdish Democratic Society (DTP) Party has invited President Jalal
Talabani and Massoud Barzani, the President of Southern Kurdistan, to this
year's planned celebrations of Newroz in Amed, Northern Kurdistan. Turkey's
PM Erdogan and President Sezer have also been invited to join the
celebrations, as have foreign dignitaries from all over the world.
Amed DTP leader Ahmet Cengiz said " We are expecting at least 1 million
people to take part in this year's Newroz celebrations," reported Turkish
newspaper Hurriyet
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Security forces In Kirkuk say they have arrested five members of a terrorist
group allegedly responsible for dozens of attacks in the city. One of the
people arrested was a hospital physician said to have killed police officers
and others in his care, reported PUK's Kurdistani Nwe |
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News Snapshot
March 14, 2006
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Clashes Between Protesters And
Security Forces In Piranshahr Leave Casualties
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Kurds
Yearn For Official Status For Their Language
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Syria Arrests Dissidents On
Anniversary Of Kurdish-Arab Clashes
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News Snapshot
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Jordan's national carrier Royal Jordanian will increase its weekly flights
to Southern Kurdistan city of Erbil later this month from two to four.
Four weekly round-trip flights to Erbil will begin on March 26, the
spokesman said, reported AFP |
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March 12, 2006
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The Conference on
the Kurdish Issue
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News Snapshot
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Reports from the Kurdish city of Mahabad in Eastern Kurdistan said that
widespread clashes had broken out on Friday between residents and security
forces of Iranian regime after a detained man was shot at point blank by
security agents yesterday, reported Iran Focus. |
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March 11, 2006
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Kirkuk
Dispute Bedevils Iraq's Political Crisis
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Kurdish Conference Opens In
Turkey Under Tight Security
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Barzani
Invites Iraqi Leaders To Hold Talks In Kurdistan
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News Snapshot
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The PKK on Friday denied responsibility for a bomb
attack that killed three people and injured 19 others. In a statement
published on the website of the Europe-based Firat News agency, the party
said it was not involved with the blast in the city of Van, which officials
suspect was the work of a suicide bomber. "Just as we have no information on
the incident in Van, we do not organize attacks" that target civilians, the
PKK said in a brief statement.
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Two members of Turkey's security forces were killed on Friday in fighting
with Kurdish peshmerga in Northern Kurdistan, security officials said.
"The fighting is still going on. The security forces' operation is also
being supported from the air (by military helicopters)," one official told
Reuters.
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A court in Turkey sentenced a university student on Thursday to 10 months in
prison for holding up a banner emblazoned with the flag of Kurdistan
alongside the Turkish and the EU flags at a demonstration last year,
reported TDN. |
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March 10, 2006
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Democracy
Activists Beaten By Pro-Syrian Regime Students
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The Country Has Already
Collapsed
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Turkey and the
lost rights of Kurds
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March 9, 2006
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Prosecutor Who Accused Turkish
General Faces Pro
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Two Kurdish
Reporters Accused Of making Fire-Bombs Face Life Imprisonment
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Acquitted for
Greeting in Kurdish
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News Snapshot
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Abdullah Hussein, director of the professional institute for industrial
engineering, has said a memorandum of understanding will be signed soon for
a Jordanian-Canadian commercial venture to set up an aircraft factory.
Hussein said the factory will manufacture small planes for agricultural use
as well as four-seater passenger aircraft. The new venture will be called
the Kurdistan Association for Aircraft Manufacturing. The project will cost
116 million US dollars, and should be completed in two years, reported
Kurdistani Nwe. |
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March 8, 2006
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Senior Turkish
General 'Stoked Kurdish Conflict To keep Turkey Out Of EU'
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Kurds In Northern
Kurdistan Want Official Status For Their Language
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Kurdish Rebels In
Northern Kurdistan Claim Deadly Attacks Against Turkey
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UNHCR Advises Stranded
Kurdish-Iranian Refugees To Relocate
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The Trouble With Iraq's Prime
Minister
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Journalist lectures On
Kurds' Future
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March 6, 2006
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Barham Saleh Meets Sistani, Kurds
Lobby To
Oust
Jaafari
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March 4, 2006
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Anti-US Radical Shiite Cleric
al-Sadr To Visit Turkey
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Talabani Steps
Up Pressure On PM Jaafari
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