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Syrian Kurds: Time to Assert Their Rights

Alon Ben-Meir | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Turkey, Kurds, Iraq, Middle East, Syria, Syria Revolution, Syria Protests, Assad, Syria Assad, Syria Turkey, World News

To fully gain from the popular revolt and achieve equal rights with the rest of the Syrian people, Syria's Kurds need to take five central steps and remain consistent and unwavering, regardless of how treacherous the road to freedom may be.

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Setting Up Triage in Syria: Strategies to Save a Struggling Nation's Minorities

Kurt J. Werthmuller | Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Religious Minorities, Kurds, Free Syrian Army, Syrian National Council, Alawites, Syria Protests, Syria Violence, Syrian Crisis, Islamists, Syria, Bashar Al-Assad, Arab Christians, World News

The world must not allow the Syrian crisis to "play itself out," as some analysts have suggested: This threat to the country's minorities (many of whom are unarmed) is simply too great, and the consequences too severe, to play this sort of Russian roulette on a national-societal scale.

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Americans for Permanent War: Target Syria

Doug Bandow | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: John McCain, Arab Spring, Kurds, Intervention, War, Humanitarian Intervention, Iran, Religious Persecution, Syria, Bashar Al-Assad, World News

Washington obviously is filled with ivory tower field marshals eager to send others off on glorious crusades. But unleashing death and destruction in Syria should not be viewed as just another policy option.

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Erdogan’s Kurdish Challenge

Akbar Ahmed | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Erdogan, Turkey, Pkk, Kurds, Iraq, Terrorism, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Akp, Religion News

There is a dichotomy at the heart of Turkey's newly forming identity. It cannot be a champion of human rights and compassion abroad while ignoring them at home.

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Motorcycle Bomb Wounds 15 Policemen

AP | By SELCAN HACAOGLU | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Turkey Bombing, Turkey, Terror, Kurds, Ankara Bomb, Turkey Kurds, Ankara Bombing, Turkey Bomb, Turkey Kurdish Conflict, Ankara, Islamists, World News

ANKARA, Turkey -- A remote-controlled bomb mounted on a motorcycle exploded in Turkey's largest city Thursday, wounding 15 police officers and one civ...

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Iraqi Government Demands VP Face Terrorism Charges

AP | ADAM SCHRECK | Posted 03.09.2012

Read More: Iraq Kurds, Tariq Al-Hashemi, Video, Kurds, Tariq Al-Hashemi Iraq, Iraq Shiites, Iraq Sunnis, Tariq Al-Hashemi Kurds, Iraq, Nouri Al Maliki, World News

BAGHDAD — Iraq's Shiite-led government on Sunday demanded that authorities in the semiautonomous Kurdish region hand over the country's top Sunn...

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Thousands Mourn Civilians Killed In Botched Air Raid

AP | CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA | Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Turkey 35 Killed, Turkey, Kurds, Turkey Kurds, Taraf Newspaper, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey-Air-Strikes, Abdullah Ocalan, Turkey Air Strike Funeral, Diyarbakir, Turkey Air Raid, World News

ISTANBUL — Turkish Kurds vented their rage Friday over a botched military airstrike aimed at Kurdish rebels that instead killed 35 civilians, wi...

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Report: Turkey's Air Force Kills At Least 20 In Raids

AP | SUZAN FRASER | Posted 02.27.2012

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ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish warplanes mistakenly killed 35 smugglers and other villagers in an operation targeting Kurdish rebels in Iraq, a senior...

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Iraq War: Not Over and Danger Ahead

James Zogby | Posted 02.23.2012

Read More: Iraq War, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki, Iraqis, Kurds, Iraq Withdrawal, Iraq, Iraq Sunnis, Iraq Drawdown, Iraq Shiites, Iraq Withdrawal Attitudes, Iraq Troop Withdrawal, World News

America leaves an Iraq that is deeply divided. After decades of ruthless rule, Iraqis endured an invasion and occupation, suffered from terror and ethnic cleansing, and while the trappings of a democracy have been set-up, it remains in a gestational state.

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The Kurdish Conflict: The Real Challenge to Turkey's Democracy

Alon Ben-Meir | Posted 02.04.2012

Read More: Turkey, Kurds, Turkey Kurds, World News

In the wake of the Arab Spring and Prime Minister Erdogan's championing of political reforms throughout the Arab world, it has now become more urgent than ever before to find an equitable solution to the Turkish-Kurdish conflict.

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Turkish PM Apologizes For Thousands Of Kurdish Deaths

AP | SELCAN HACAOGLU | Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Recep Tayyip Erdogan Kurds, Dersim Kurds, Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan Apology, Kurds, Turkey Kurds, Turkey Kurd Rebels, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, World News

ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkey's prime minister apologized Wednesday for the first time for the killings of nearly 14,000 people in a bombing and strafing c...

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Commandos Kill Turkish Ferry Hijacker

AP | By SELCAN HACAOGLU and SUZAN FRASER | Posted 01.12.2012

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ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkish commandos in civilian clothes slipped onto a hijacked passenger ferry and posed as hostages before fatally shooting a suspec...

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Turkish Attack On Kurds Largest In 3 Years, Military Says

AP | SELCAN HACAOGLU | Posted 12.20.2011

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ANKARA, Turkey — About 10,000 elite Turkish soldiers took part in a ground offensive against Kurdish rebels in southeastern Turkey and across th...

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Turkey Launches Incursion In Iraq

AP | SELCAN HACAOGLU and SUZAN FRASER | Posted 12.19.2011

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ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish soldiers, air force bombers and helicopter gunships launched an incursion into northern Iraq on Wednesday, hours after ...

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Turkey And Iran Undertake Joint Military Offensive Against Kurdish Rebels

Posted 11.26.2011

Read More: Iran Turkish Cooperation, Iran Kurds, Turkey, Kurds, Iran Kurdish Question, Turkey Kurds, Kurdish Rebels, Iran Kurdish Minority, Iran, Iran Military Kurds, World News

By SELCAN HACAOGLU - Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Turkey's prime minister on Sunday signaled a joint military offensive with Iran agains...

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Kurdish Militant Group Claims Car Bomb Attack Was 'A Start'

AP | Posted 11.22.2011

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ANKARA, Turkey — A Kurdish militant group on Thursday claimed responsibility for a car bomb attack near a school in the Turkish capital that kil...

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Iraqi Kurds: Displaced by Iranian and Turkish Operations, Ignored by the World

Ahmad Shuja | Posted 11.07.2011

Read More: Kurds, Idps, Iraqi Kurdistan, Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Pjak, Pkk, World News

Iran has been involved in skirmishes with PJAK rebels on-and-off in the past, but the current spate is unprecedented in its duration -- it is likely the longest lasting combat operation by the Revolutionary Guards since the Iran-Iraq war ended more than 20 years ago.

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Apology in the Middle East Is a Weapon, or 'Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word'

Haggai Carmon | Posted 11.06.2011

Read More: Syria, Flotila, Iran, Turkey, Marmara, Diplomatic, Middle East, Israel, Political, Apology, Un, U.S, Palmer Report, Eu, Seals, Kurds, World News

In the Middle East where honor is worth more than money and is a political weapon both sides hold, the Israeli-Turkish future relationship seem bleak.

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Turkish Military Launches Offensive Against Kurdish Rebels

AP | By SELCAN HACAOGLU | Posted 09.14.2011

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ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkish soldiers, air force bombers and helicopter gunships conducted a major offensive in southeastern Turkey on Friday after Kurdi...

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Kurdish Rebels Kill 13 Turkish Soldiers

AP | SELCAN HACAOGLU | Posted 09.13.2011

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ANKARA, Turkey — A clash in a forest left 13 Turkish soldiers and seven Kurdish rebels dead Thursday in the country's rugged southeast, the mili...

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Turkey: The First Mideast Revolution

Eric Margolis | Posted 08.20.2011

Read More: Kurds, Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Gul, "Zero Problems" Policy, AK Party, Politics News

Erdogan's third electoral victory fell short of allowing him to rewrite the obsolete constitution without consensus from other parties, but his victory means years more democratic and economic progress for the vitally important nation of Turkey.

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Assad Speaks, the Protests Continue -- and the Kurds Come Into Play

Dr. Josef Olmert | Posted 08.20.2011

Read More: Syria, Bashar Assad, Kurds, Syria Protests, Bashar Al-Assad, World News

As the Syrian regime loses its grip over large parts of the country, the age old Kurdish question seems to get back to the limelight.

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Turkey's Unity Threatened: Polarization Over Kurdish Policy

Tulin Daloglu | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Turkey, Egypt Revolution, Kurds, Middle East, Hezbollah, Erdogan, Akp, Turkey and Kurds, Islamists, Tunisia Revolution, World News

Turkey has approached a very crucial turning point in its dealings with its Kurdish citizens. Kurds made gains in the 2009 local elections, but many worry that the AKP is trying to destroy them politically.

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Rebuilding the House of Wisdom

Athanasios Moulakis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraqi Scholars, Iraqi Education, Education in Iraq, Iraqi Kurdistan, Institute of International Education, Women, Education, Kurds, Iraq, Women's Education, World News

Iraq has ingrained traditions of learning, including the professional academic preparation of women. Whatever can be said for the American invasion, it devastated Iraqi higher education.

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"A Success Story in the Middle East"

Janet Ritz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq, Iraqi Kurdistan, Jalal Talabani, Qubad Talabani, Kurdistan, Slidepollajax, Religion, Environment, Iran, Turkey, The Environmentalist, Politics, Kurds, World News

A recent conversation with Qubad Talabani, the Kurdish representative to the U.S., centered on what the son of Iraq's President Jalal Talabani called the U.S.'s success story in the Middle East.

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