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May
31, 2005
Kurdish Assembly To Meet For The First Time Four Months After Elections
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The secretary of the political office of the
KDP, Fadil Mirani, said "it is a pity that we Kurds are playing an active
role in the Iraqi parliament and in the formation of the new government in
Baghdad, but that four months after the elections we have not been able to
have a meeting of our own parliament".
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Iraq Approves Plans To Move 3,100 Iranian Kurdish Refugees: UNHCR
M ay
30, 2005
Senior
Kurdish Official in Kirkuk Shot Dead
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Maj. Gen. Ahmed al-Barazanchi,
director of internal affairs of Kirkuk province and former police chief,
died in hospital early Monday after being shot multiple times late Sunday,
said Ismail al-Hadithi, Kirkuk's deputy governor. More |
May
29, 2005
News
Snapshot
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Barzani
to become President of the librated region of Southern Kurdistan.
Kurdish
leader Massoud Barzani is to head Southern Kurdistan after a deal with his
longtime rival, Iraq's new President Jalal Talabani, a Kurdish official said
Sunday, reported AFP. The regional parliament will also meet on June 4 for
the first time since the January elections, the official told AFP.
After years of political discord between Talabani and Barzani, the two
agreed at a meeting on Saturday that Barzani should rule Southern Kurdistan
for the next four years, the official said. |
Arab Leader Shot Dead in
Kurdish City of Kirkuk
A Kurdish film will be screen in Global Art Film Festival in California
M ay
28, 2005
Kurd Chief Who Taught Mercy To Saddam's Men
Young Kurds choose English over Arabic
M ay
27, 2005
Kurds Still Without Govt After January Poll
Turkish
Democracy Under Fire Over Pressure On Dissident Academics
May
26, 2005
News
Snapshot
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The Turkish regime
Wednesday passed an ammendment paving the way for authorities to restrict
contacts between Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan and his lawyers. Turkish
regime would be empowered to appoint an official to attend meetings
between prisoners and their lawyers and examine and confiscate documents
that they wish to exchange, reported AFP. |
Four Turkish Security Force Members Killed in Ambush
Keeping Sulamaniya Safe
M ay
25, 2005
Akres Last Jewish Roots Wants To
Visit Family In Israel
Proposal to Divide Iraq Into Semi-Autonomous States Gains Ground
M ay
24, 2005
Kurds Itching to Resume Fight in Eastern Kurdistan
News
Snapshot
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A
Kurdish official escaped a car bomb attack on his convoy on Monday, but five
people were killed in the attack, reported
Xinhuanet
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The attack took place at Tuz Khurmatu town, south of Kirkuk. Muhammed
Jigareti, a senior official of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK),
survived the blast, but about 18 others were wounded.
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More than 10,000 Kurds are demonstrated in Qamoshli, Western Kurdistan as a
result of the kidnapping of Sheikh Khaznawi, a respected Sufi cleric that
disappeared 10 days ago. The Syrian regime has issued a communiquι denying
any involvement or the whereabouts of the Kurdish Sheikh. Reform Part of
Syria reported last week. |
M ay
20, 2005
U.S. Judge Orders Release of Parlak
Turkey Says
Won't retry Ocalan
May
19, 2005
News
Snapshot
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Jalal Talabani headed to
Southern Kurdistan to holding talks with Mr. Barzani to put order back into
the Kurdish house. "The talks will focus on differences which emerged
between PUK and KDP," said the source who spoke on condition of
anonymity, reported UPI. Differences between the two rival Kurdish
leaders led to postponing the inauguration of the new Kurdish parliament for
several months. "The talks will be aimed at settling the differences once
and for all and fixing a date for the parliament`s inauguration," the source
added. |
European Rights Court Condemns Turkey
The Way
Of The Kurd
Open
Letter to the Kurdish leadership
May
15, 2005
May
13, 2005
Three Turkish Soldiers Killed in Kurdish Rebel Clash
Kurdish Leader Says Retrial Could Offer Hope For Peace
M ay
12, 2005
Turks
Braced For Crisis Over Ocalan Court Ruling
M ay
9, 2005
Jaafari's Cabinet Pledges Allegiance to 'Federal Iraq'
M ay
4, 2005
U.S. Says
Suicide Bomber Kills at least 64,
Wounding 150 In Erbil
Oath Changed, And Fuming Kurds Want to Know Why
M ay
2, 2005
Kurds and Turks in Waterfront Knife Fight
Schroeder Urges 'Change of Thinking' in Turkey
They Were Children
Gunned Down in tle Mud
Under US Pressure, Iraqi
Leaders Ponder How to Finish off the PKK
European Rights Court to Rule on Appeal by Kurdish Leader
May
1, 2005
News
Snapshot
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US says 30 killed by car
bomber at funeral. A car bomb exploded at the funeral for a Kurdish official
in Southern Kurdistan on Sunday, killing about 30 Kurds and wounding more
than 50, the US military said. The attack occurred in the city of Tal
Afar, the deputy provincial governor and a spokesman for the Kurdish
Democratic Party. Goran said a suicide attacker detonated a car packed with
explosives in a large tent where the funeral was being held. But the US
military said it was not a suicide attack |
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Kurdish separatist group on Sunday claimed responsibility for a bomb attack
in a western Turkish resort town that killed a police officer, reported
Reuters. A spokesman for the Kurdistan Liberation Hawks (TAK) was quoted as
telling the Europe-based Mezopotamya News Agency that the TAK was behind the
bomb blast in Kusadasi on Saturday. |
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Massoud Barzani
Free parlak
Why Don't We Have a "Country" Yet?
Mr. Talabani as President, a Triumph or a defeat for the Kurds?
Those Who
Can't Bully USA, Bully Kurds
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