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[News, Opionion and Features from Asharq Alawsat English Edition] Turkey marks 25 years of Kurd rebellion Asharq Alawsat Newspaper ...: In the past year, however, Turkey has hosted indirect talks between Syria and Israel, won acclaim for criticizing Israel for Palestinian civilian deaths in the Gaza war, and hosted Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as well as European leaders separately for talks on proposed pipeline projects to ferry energy supplies to the West.

[Breaking News] Turkey's military backs efforts to raise Kurds' rights; opposes ...: Turkish PM meets pro-Kurdish politiciansANKARA, Turkey ”” Turkey's leader met with pro-Kurdish politicians on Wednesday in a move aimed at laying the groundwork for an end to a 25-year insurgency by Kurdish rebels, but he acknowledged that the path to peace will be long and difficult. It was the first meeting between Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Ahmet Turk, head of the Democratic Society Party, and his lawmakers since the pro-Kurdish party won 21 seats in the 550-seat parliament in 2007, reflecting a conciliatory approach by the government, which has said it would grant more rights to the nation's Kurdish minority to end the fighting.

[RealClearWorld - Articles] RealClearWorld - U.S. Must Help Turkey on the "Kurdish Question": The US Ambassador in Turkey in recent days has met with all opposition parties, including the Kurdish political party, to reiterate American support for the solution of the "Kurdish Question." Speaking in Turkish directly to the Turkish people and its leaders, the ambassador has been warmly received and applauded for his efforts. Along with these encouraging efforts, Secretary of State Clinton and President Obama must get involved, even by simply acknowledging the progress and opportunity that currently exists in Ankara.

[World News | The Bryan College Station Eagle] Turkey marks 25 years of Kurd rebellion | Bryan/College Station ...: Turkey has taken some steps to assimilate Kurds, who account for about 20 percent of the population of 75 million and dominate the country's southeast. In January, the first 24-hour Kurdish-language television station was launched, and Erdogan spoke a few words in the once-banned tongue.

[Shining Light In Dark Corners] The Militarization of Turkey and Coming Invasion of Independent ...: In order to launch a military action against Iraq’s Kurds and to contain the threat of secessionist activity by Turkish Kurds, the Turkish military has already begun to militarize southeastern Turkey. With Europeans focusing heavily on Turkey’s ability to improve its human rights record, military action against Kurds in Iraq, military action against an independent Kurdistan and renewed oppression of Turkey’s own Kurds will bring Istanbul’s E.U.

[Mideast Youth - Thinking Ahead] Mideast Youth - Thinking Ahead » Iraqi Kurdistan is enjoying safety: The violence in Baghdad was not forgotten during the opening of the Kurdish parliament and the recently elected Kurdish president Massoud Barzani promised to do everything they can to help the victims of the attacks. Despite of the Kurdish-Arabic dispute, economics is more important then nationalism in Kurdistan and Kurds benefit from Arabic tourism.

[Agence France-Presse photos] TURKEY-KURDS-VIOLENCE-POLITICS: Atalay said Turkey was working on a new plan to solve the Kurdish problem. The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), listed as a terrorist group by Ankara and much of the international community, has been fighting for self-rule in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast and east since 1984, in a conflict that has claimed some 45,000 lives.

[The Kurdistani- Kurdish Online Community] Turkey: No Kurd Autonomy or Amnesty, Official Says - The ...: A government plan to reach a resolution on ending a quarter-century of violence by Kurdish separatists in southeastern Turkey will not include autonomy for Kurds or an amnesty for the rebels, Interior Minister Besir Atalay said Monday.

[Arab News] Arab News Blog » "Iraq Endgame": US interest: propping up the ...: . …….The Turkish expectation is that over the long haul, a wealthy and powerful Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region could slip out of Baghdad’s control and become a center of Kurdish nationalism. Put another way, no matter what the Iraqi Kurds say now about cooperating with Turkey regarding the PKK,

[KURDISH BLOG] Turkish solution for Kurds issue might fail -- Kurdish official ...: After meeting with Interior Minister Besir Atalay, Turk said that Kurds were very optimistic about a solution for their problem but they feared that the new Turkish democratic solution to the problem might face failure as of the previous initiatives to close the dispute between Turkey and the Kurds.

[Breaking News] Turkey talks peace on 25th anniversary of first attack by Kurd rebels: Turkish PM meets pro-Kurdish politiciansANKARA, Turkey ”” Turkey's leader met with pro-Kurdish politicians on Wednesday in a move aimed at laying the groundwork for an end to a 25-year insurgency by Kurdish rebels, but he acknowledged that the path to peace will be long and difficult. It was the first meeting between Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Ahmet Turk, head of the Democratic Society Party, and his lawmakers since the pro-Kurdish party won 21 seats in the 550-seat parliament in 2007, reflecting a conciliatory approach by the government, which has said it would grant more rights to the nation's Kurdish minority to end the fighting.

[Enterprise Resilience Management Blog] Enterprise Resilience Management Blog: Turkey Renews Efforts to ...: The main catalyst for Turkey's new sense of urgency is Washington's announcement that it plans to pull its soldiers out of Iraq, Turkey's southern neighbor, by 2011. The planned withdrawal has speeded up a rapprochement between Turkey and Iraqi Kurds, whose relations have been blighted for years by the PKK's use of Iraqi Kurdish mountains for its military bases.

[eChurchWebsites Christian Blog covering the news, politics, media, law, religion, science, medical, education, internet, technology and more for the Church] Iraq's Assyrian Christians find temporary home in Kurdistan ...: One of Iraq’s most ancient national groups, the Assyrian Christians, who are Eastern Orthodox Christians, have largely quit their ancestral home in Arab Iraq and fled to the Kurdish region, where tens of thousands now live, or abroad.

[The Dean's Blog: Celebrating Teaching and Learning at Rhodes] Romano Publishes Widely on the Middle East and Turkey: Published a chapter on “The Kurds and Contemporary Regional Political Dynamics,” in Gareth Stansfield and Robert Lowe (eds.), The Kurdish Policy Imperative, Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2009.

[Breaking News] Turkey ready to grant more rights to Kurds to end the Kurdish conflict: Turkish PM meets pro-Kurdish politiciansANKARA, Turkey ”” Turkey's leader met with pro-Kurdish politicians on Wednesday in a move aimed at laying the groundwork for an end to a 25-year insurgency by Kurdish rebels, but he acknowledged that the path to peace will be long and difficult. It was the first meeting between Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Ahmet Turk, head of the Democratic Society Party, and his lawmakers since the pro-Kurdish party won 21 seats in the 550-seat parliament in 2007, reflecting a conciliatory approach by the government, which has said it would grant more rights to the nation's Kurdish minority to end the fighting.

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