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[Dinar Daddy's Tidbits] * Barzani “concerned” about feuding bloc leaders | Dinar Daddy's ...: Following a nine-month political impasse with both leaders refusing to relinquish claim to the country’s leadership, Kurdistan President Massoud Barzani stepped in with a model for a national unity government and a power-sharing deal.

[KurdNet News ekurd.net] 36 years after the establishing of the PUK in Southern Kurdistan ...: After the defeat of the Kurds in the 1974-1975 Revolt, on June 1st, 1975, Jalal Talabani and his supporters announced from Damascus the founding of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. The PUK was a coalition of at least five separate political entities, the most significant of which were Talabani and his closest followers, Nawshirwan Mustafa's clandestine Marxist-Leninist group Komala, and the Kurdistan Socialist Movement (KSM), led by Ali Askari.

[HomePage] Turkish Voter Reigns in Riyadh Supported Islamists: According to the International Federation of Journalists over 40 Turkish journalists are in jail and around 700 others face trial, many of them Kurds accused of spreading separatist propaganda. One, Irfan Aktan, was sentenced to 15 months in prison in June for quoting a rebel of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

[Modern Tokyo Times] New Tensions in Kirkuk as Kurdish Peshmerga Surround City: During a tense meeting in Baghdad in November 2008, for example, Barzani told al-Maliki, “you smell like a dictator” (The Economist, November 27).  In August 2008, this type of semantic fireworks nearly resulted in open hostilities over the disputed city of Khanaqin in Diyala province, some 90 miles north of Baghdad on the de facto internal border often referred to as the “trigger line.” Here the Kurdish peshmerga (militia) ignored an ultimatum by the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) to withdraw within 24 hours. After some very tense brinkmanship, the two sides each withdrew some 15 miles north and south of the city, leaving security within Khanaqin to be handled by the police (see Terrorism Focus, September 18, 2008).

[Karim Hasan's Blog] Governing the Kurdish Question: Justice for the Kurds: Taking this genealogical reading of the Kurdish Question into consideration, to articulate the Kurdish Question in the present condition, post-sovereignty world order, I will pose one main and two subsidiary questions, which will attempt focusing on a thematic inquiry into the two main approaches of the Kurdish Question. My main research and the subsidiary questions will allow me to articulate the Kurdish Question in our present condition: post-sovereignty world order, globalization and global governance.

[History Textbooks Reviews] A Modern History of the Kurds: Third Edition: The division of the Kurdish people among four modern nation states--Iraq, Turkey, Syria and Iran--and their struggle for national rights have been constant themes of recent Middle East history. The Kurdish lands have been contested .

[Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq] Surging Out of Iraq - Iraq: Stumbling From One Conflict to Another?: Just shortly before Obama officially declared the U.S. withdrawal plan, the Kurds’ number one opponent in Baghdad, PM Maliki, found himself in a boosted position as his coalition of the State of Law scored a quite unexpected victory in nine of Iraq’s 18 provinces including Baghdad, the country’s most populous city of around six million. With Kurds and Baghdad at odds over several crucial issues, Obama’s withdrawal plan would only further strengthen Maliki’s position.

[Israpundit] Israpundit » Blog Archive » The problem with Turkey: Turkey has constantly rattled its scimitar against the PKK guerillas, and crossed the border into northern Iraq under the guise of pursuing Kurdish guerillas. It has also talked about protecting the Turkmens, relatives of the Turks, who just so happen to live in the oil rich city of Kirkuk, a city contested by Arabs, Kurds, and Turkmens alike.

[Florida Jewish Blog] Rethinking Jerusalem: lands of North Africa, Darfur in the west and the south of largely black African Sudan, and countless other examples, and you can see how the problems Arabs have with Jews are not so unique after all. The same subjugating Arab mindset victimizes any non-Arabs who dare to assert their own share of justice in the region.

[Gorilla's Guides] Gorilla's Guides » Blog Archive » IRAQ: Stumbling From One ...: Just shortly before Obama officially declared the U.S. withdrawal plan, the Kurds’ number one opponent in Baghdad, PM Maliki, found himself in a boosted position as his coalition of the State of Law scored a quite unexpected victory in nine of Iraq’s 18 provinces including Baghdad, the country’s most populous city of around six million. With Kurds and Baghdad at odds over several crucial issues, Obama’s withdrawal plan would only further strengthen Maliki’s position.

[Words of Defiance.....Rediscovering My Voice] Words of Defiance - Kurdish forces refuse to quit Iraq battlefield ...: A Kurdish Peshmerga fighter stands guard at a checkpoint near the Iraq-Turkey border in northern Iraq's Kurdistan region in February 2008. Kurdish forces are refusing Iraqi defence ministry orders to pull out of Kurdish-populated areas of ethnically divided Diyala province where they have been deployed for the past two years, their commander has said.

[Big Lizards] Big Lizards:Blog:Entry “Horrific Nineveh Bombing Shows ...: The Sunni Arab guerrillas face powerful challenges from Kurds and Shiites with regard to the future of provinces such as Ninevah, Diyala and Kirkuk. A lot of Kurdish police and troops have been deployed in Mosul not far from Tuesday's bombings, and they are seen as among the deadliest enemies by the Sunni Arab guerrillas.

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