Damac Properties Now in Kurdistan
2008-06-09 10:43:00 Damac properties global expansion does not seem to be showing signs of slowing. The luxury property developer which started life in Dubai as a catering company announced its newest project in Kurdistan. The first phase of the project in the region will be Tarin Hills Development covering 170 million square feet in Erbil and estimated to cost $4.5 billion. The project will start by the end of this year and will include residential and commercial buildings.
Nasreddin Hoja and The Spiritual Teacher
2008-05-01 06:51:00 A wizened sage, from beyond Ashsharq, a far-off Eastern land, had arrived in the village. His philosophical expositions were so abtruse and yet so tantalizing that the usual company in the teahouse soon became convinced that he could perhaps unveil for them the mysteries of life. Nasreddin Hoja listed to him for a while. ‘You know,’ ...
By: Wa Salaam
Nasreddin Hoja and The Spiritual Teacher
2008-05-01 06:51:00 A wizened sage, from beyond Ashsharq, a far-off Eastern land, had arrived in the village. His philosophical expositions were so abtruse and yet so tantalizing that the usual company in the teahouse soon became convinced that he could perhaps unveil for them the mysteries of life. Nasreddin Hoja listed to him for a while. ‘You know,’ ...
By: Wa Salaam
Turkey Claims Restoring Iraq Control Over Kurdistan
2008-02-28 14:58:00 Turkish military forces continue pounding away at Kurdish militant bases in northern parts of Iraq as its diplomats assured the government of Iraq those operations were mainly due to a desire on the part of Turkey to restore “Iraqi sovereignty over those geographic areas(where) terrorists are functioning.” Latest figures released by the Turkish military indicate ...
Turkish troops out of Kurdistan!
2008-02-24 17:19:00 [From Liberal Conspiracy] Within the past four days, following a lengthy campaign of aerial bombings, a Turkish ground invasion of Iraqi Kurdistan has begun. 10,000 troops in total rolled across the border on Thursday night, according to the Turkish Daily News. This was on the pretext of hunting members of the PKK who live in camps ...
By: News for Greens
Was Rice's trip to Iraqi Kurdistan Deliberately Sabotaged?
2007-12-19 15:19:00 Now, why would Rice go to Iraqi Kurdistan at the precise moment of a Turkish incursion? There is no way Rice would do that on purpose. Yet, there is a leak saying the US provided real time intelligence to Turkey on the location of PKK terrorists, just as Rice was leaving Washington. Sure looks like a set up. And guess who has been setting up the Secretary of State for the past 7 years? This has Cheney's smell all over it. Informed Comment it is absolutely impossible that Condi plans out a trip to Kirkuk and a meeting with Barzani with full knowledge that while she is there, Turkey will send 500 Turkish soldiers into northern Iraq to occupy the villages of Kaya Retch Binwak, Janarok and Gelly Resh. Or even that when she set out on her trip, she knew that Turkey was planning to bomb Iraqi Kurdistan on Sunday, killing 3, wounding 8, and displacing 300 Kurdish villagers. [..]So in my view Turkey is trying to drive a wedge between the US and Barzani, and Turkish chief of staff Y...
Turkey Green Lights Cross-Border Strikes in Iraqi Kurdistan
2007-11-30 17:37:00 Following up on last month’s decision by the Turkish parliament to OK operations in northern Iraq’s moderately stable Kurdish area, today Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan announced his cabinet has authorized further action. From the AP; Turkey’s prime minister said on Friday his cabinet had authorized the armed forces to conduct a cross-border operation against Kurdish PKK ...
Turkey Green Lights Cross-Border Strikes in Iraqi Kurdistan
2007-11-30 17:05:00 Following up on last month's decision by the Turkish parliament to OK operations in northern Iraq's moderately stable Kurdish area, today Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan announced his cabinet has authorized further action. From the AP;Turkey's prime minister said on Friday his cabinet had authorized the armed forces to conduct a cross-border operation against Kurdish PKK rebels in northern Iraq, but analysts said major action did not appear imminent.Tayyip Erdogan's comments, following up on a parliamentary resolution last month and emergency talks with U.S. President George W. Bush, seemed chiefly designed to keep up pressure on U.S. and Iraqi forces to honor pledges to tackle the PKK."We took our cabinet meeting decision on November 28 and with the president's approval our Turkish Armed Forces are now authorized for a cross-border operation from November 28," Erdogan said in televised comments.Turkey has amassed up to 100,000 troops near the mountainous border, backed up by ta...
By: Mike Kuykendall
97 women burnt to death in Iraqi Kurdistan over the past four months
2007-11-29 17:25:00 Things haven't exactly improved for women in Iraqi Kurdistan lately. According to human rights minister Yusuf Aziz Muhammad, 97 women were burnt to death and 27 were killed in other ways in the three Iraqi Kurdish provinces over the past four months: "Surveys conducted in Arbil (the capital of the autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan region) showed that there were 60 cases of women burning in Arbil, 21 in Duhuk and 16 in Sulaimaniya. There were also 10 cases of women killing in Arbil, 11 in Duhuk and six in Sulaimaniya," Muhammad said. The Kurdish official, citing the figures of 2005, noted that there were 59 cases of women killing in the region, which rose to 118 in 2006. "Cases of women burning themselves in Sulaimaniya during 2006 were 64 and in Duhuk 185," said the minister. Women proved involved in honor-related crimes are forced to burn themselves and sometimes they are set ablaze by their male relatives. It's their culture. Therefore, it can't be criticized. Source "97 women burn...
By: Bad Thinking
Turkish Soldiers Freed In Kurdistan
2007-11-04 14:44:00 In a bid to demonstrate cooperation with nations attending the International Conference in Ankara, the outlawed Kurdish group, the PKK, announced today there were freeing the eight Turkish soldiers who had been captured and held hostage. “At 7:30 a.m., the eight Turkish prisoners were delivered to a delegation from the Kurdish region, which also ...
Kurdistan Leader Defiant And Seeks Compromise
2007-10-31 14:58:00 Iraqi Kurdish leader, Massoud Barzani issued a defiant rejection of Turkish demands to end terrorism while also indicating he was ready to negotiate for peace. On one hand, he said about Turkey, “You do not speak to me, then you ask me to do things against the PKK. How can this be?” Within a few ...
Iraq Leader Defiant-We Will Not Turn Over Kurds!
2007-10-29 14:12:00 Iraq Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani defiantly told the world he would not give in to Turkish or American pressure about surrendering leaders of the Kurdish Workers Party. “I will not hand over any person in any regional state no matter what the cost. However, in truth, I will not allow any PKK official to use ...
Gates meets Turkey?s defence chief amid Iraq incursion fears
2007-10-22 17:35:00 US Defence Secretary Robert Gates held talks here Sunday with his Turkish counterpart as tension mounted between the two nations over Ankara’s plans for possible attacks on Kurdish rebels in Iraq. Gates urged Turkey to obtain precise information on the location of the separatist rebels before launching any military incursion into northern Iraq. “The key ...
By: The Hot Joints
Turchia invia esercito per combattere il Kurdistan iracheno, Notizie dal mo
2007-10-22 14:20:00 Fonte: Ultime Notizie Oggetto: Turchia invia esercito per combattere il Kurdistan iracheno Inviato: Lun Ott 22, 2007 11:20 pm (GMT 11) Dopo l'agguato dei guerriglieri curdi del Pkk sarebbero morti almeno 16 soldati turchi Ieri l'esercito e l'aviazione turca, hanno risposto agli attachi del Pkk uccidendo 32 gueriglieri curdi. 2000 cittadini turchi sono scesi a manifestare per un intervento militare immediato e hanno chiesto persino le dimissioni del governo di Recep Tayyip. Nonostate la diplomazia americana ed europea oggi il governo turco ha autorizzato l'invio di una cinquantina di veicoli, carichi di soldati e di armi provenienti dalla cittą di Sirnak e diretti verso Uludere. Il ministro degli esteri Massimo D'Alema ha ribato la sua posizione contro una escalation militare in territorio iracheno: "Confermiamo il nostro appello alla Turchia di evitare operazioni militari massicce all'interno del territorio iracheno, comprendiamo le preoccupazioni della Turchia e anche...
By: Ultime notizie
Note on Tukey Kurdistan Trigger
2007-10-20 23:39:00 The Turkish army is mobilizing to move inside Iraqi Kurdistan, and Turkish experts say the invasion may go as deep as 60 KM inside Iraqi Kurdish lands. The objective is to uproot the fighters of the PKK, but the Turks may also find themselves clashing with the Peshmergas. Hence intense diplomatic efforts are needed to avoid this Turkish-Kurdish war inside Iraq. Washington — along with the Kurdish leadership in Iraq — must dismantle the PKK positions and networks, or at the very least...(read more)
Iraqi Kurdistan warns Turkey on incursion
2007-10-19 21:52:00 The president of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region issued a statement on Friday implying that Kurdish forces would resist a Turkish military operation against rebels based in their territory.
By: Get rich
Turkey Takes Further Step Toward Iraq Operation
2007-10-15 17:24:00 The Turkish government will seek parliamentary approval for a military operation against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, a government spokesman said Monday, taking action on one of two major issues straining relations with Washington. The government will immediately send a motion to the Parliament in hopes of a vote later this week, government spokesman Cemil ...
By: The Hot Joints
Iran shelling targets deeper inside northern Iraq
2007-09-28 16:27:00 Iranian forces have shelled deeper into northern Iraq than previously, hitting targets in an area northeast of the city of Arbil, a local official said Thursday. “The Iranian forces began their bombardments again on Wednesday evening targeting far away from the border,” said Abdul Wahid Koani, mayor of the Kurdish Iraqi border town of Joman. “This time ...
By: The Hot Joints
Hunt Oil Co. signes an oil exploration deal with the Kurdistan Regional Gov
2007-09-14 21:39:00 Thanks to “Just Sam” for bring this one to my attention and bringing up an interesting point. How can the Hunt Oil Company make a deal for Iraqi oil with an agreement with the Kurdistan Regional Government (”KRG”)? Hunt’s argument is that the Iraqi constitution allows for a form of loose federalism for Iraq, which ...
By: Current Era Blog
IRAQ: Compromise on Oil Law
2007-09-13 16:59:00 ?A carefully constructed compromise on a draft... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
By: ENERGY BLOG
Iran leaflets threaten Kurds in northern Iraq with ?cleansing?
2007-08-23 20:16:00 After Iraqi Kurds reportedly shot down an Iranian helicopter on Aug. 20th, Iran has responded by dropping leaflets on the Kurdish villages along the Iran/Iraq border. The leaflets warn of military strikes by the Islamic Republic of Iran and specifically state, “The authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran will work on cleansing this area,” the ...
By: The Hot Joints
Leaflets said to warn of Iran move into north Iraq
2007-08-21 16:50:00 SULAIMANIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - Kurdish authorities in northeastern Iraq said on Tuesday they were investigating the authenticity of leaflets warning villagers to evacuate ahead of an Iranian military offensive against Kurdish rebels. Hundreds of villagers have fled their homes in Iraq’s mountainous northeast while others hid in caves after what local authorities said was days of ...
By: The Hot Joints
IRAQ: Baghdad is trying to reassert central control of reserves run by Kurd
2007-08-09 06:53:00 The struggle for Iraq's oil flares up as Kurds... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
By: ENERGY BLOG
CANADA: Marathon Oil Corp. is joining Canada's oil sands part
2007-08-01 13:03:00 And while $5.5 billion may seem high for a cover... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
By: ENERGY BLOG
General Strike spreads in Iran?s Kurdistan province
2007-07-14 03:49:00 In Persian at: http://www.iranpressnews.com/so-urce/026932.htm C'mon Iran. Time to switch off the country. Popularity: 1% [?] Read more at Ali Mostofi
Turkey Sees Many Incentives to Invade Iraqi Kurdistan, Few Deterents
2007-06-13 20:27:00 The final straw to invade Iraqi Kurdistan may have already been broken. Recent attacks by the PKK on targets in Turkey near the Iraqi border come in the context of a election campaign that threatens to unseat the moderate Islamic Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Dar Al Hayat Turkey fought a bitter war against the PKK from 1984 to 1999 which resulted in 35,000 dead and the displacement of some 2 million. On both sides, memories of this war are very fresh, and there is great reluctance to see it break out again. The argument on the Turkish side is that a decisive campaign against the PKK is the best way to prevent its recurrence. What seems certain, however, is that a Turkish assault on northern Iraq would deal a serious blow to Turkey's already frayed relations with the United States, further destabilize the fragile American-backed government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Baghdad, and possibly put Turkey's own economic growth at risk. On the other hand, a war against ...
Are We Overselling Iraqi Kurdistan?
2007-05-07 21:28:00 Author: Dave Schulervia OTBI know, basically, nothing about Iraqi Kurdistan. I honestly doubt that Tom Barnett knows a great deal more.I do know that the English language Iraqi Kurdish blogosphere is moribund. Its last gasps were complaints about suppression of press freedom in Iraqi Kurdistan. And I also know that there?s a different narrative about what?s going there than the one you?ve probably been hearing. In this contrasting narrative Iraqi Kurdistan is not a burgeoning democracy but a highly traditional, clannish place in which, like in much of the rest of Iraq, tribal interests are highly influential if not dominant, characterizing the two ?political parties? in Iraqi Kurdistan as actually tribes, each led by its traditional tribal leader.I?ve been trying for some time to identify and buttonhole someone who actually has legitimate knowledge and expertise on Iraqi Kurdistan, particularly Kurdish politics, without much luck. Any suggestions?I?m concerned that a major permanent...
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