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Kurdistan: Birth of a Nation?

A COMEDY OF ERRORS: AMERICAN-TURKISH DIPLOMACY

The Safe Haven in Iraq – What does Safe Haven

The Superpowers and the Iraqi Kurdish Safe Haven

What Future for the Kurds?

The Denial, Resurrection, and Affirmation of

Green Money, Islamist Politics in Turkey

Was Abraham a Kurd?

Serbestî-English Summary: NATO’s New Spot of

The Resolution's Weakness

What future for the Kurds?

How to Get Out of Iraq

Let the Kurds be

Standing up for Syrian Kurds

The U.S. Is Brewing Up a Disaster for the Kurds –

The Kurds Must be Allowed Responsibility for

2004 Local Elections in Turkey and the Kurds

THE KURDS BETWEEN THE DESIRE FOR FREEDOM AND THE

Reflections On A Sovereign Iraq

Kurds show their grit

BOMBING FREEDOM

A Hole in the Heart of Kurdistan

The Kurds' Best Hope

A TEST OF VISION

The Kurdish Question

Iraqi Kurdish claim for federalism – A Kurdish-Ara

The Meaning of Self Determination and the Kurds

Bakh Dargali: Iraqi Kurds should get their own

THREE IRAQS ARE BETTER THAN ONE

The Three-State Solution

An Identity Crisis

Diyarbakır Military Prison Number 5: A Turkificati

WISING UP IN IRAQ

Victory in Iraq, One Tribe at a Time

Diyarbakır Military Prison Number 5: A Turkificati

Of Kurds and Madrid

Three Iraqs, not one

BUSH'S BETRAYAL

Turkey Is Joining Up

The Turkish Card

The Turkish Card

Iraq and the Kurdish dilemma – An Identity Crisis

Why Are We In Iraq? (And Liberia? And Afghanistan?

Iraq: In the Triangle of Terror

The Re-establishment of the University of Kirkuk

Federalism – For and Against

Responsibility of the international community

Transforming the Middle East

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Iraqi president answers questions

BAGHDAD, 6/7 2004 — Iraqi president answers questions
The interim Iraqi government took power last week from the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority. The new government faces challenges including an insurgency by Sunni Muslim extremists and Saddam Hussein loyalists in Fallujah and other cities, unrest among the followers of firebrand Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr, a Jan. 31 deadline for holding national elections, rampant street crime and sporadic electricity and other services. The interim government is led by Prime Minister Iyad Allawi. President Ghazi al-Yawer, 45, and two deputy presidents must unanimously approve any legislation proposed by Allawi's government. Yawer is a popular tribal leader and a business executive.

Dizayee says Kurds can be bridge between Turkey and rest of Iraq

ANKARA, 24/5 2004 — Iraqi Kurds could be a bridge between Turkey and the new Iraq, which is full of political faces that are strangers to Ankara, a senior Iraqi Kurdish official said.

Interview With Syria's President

DAMASCUS, Syria, 30/11 2003 - Following are the complete remarks by President Bashar al-Assad of Syria from an interview with The New York Times on Sunday. The president's office transcribed and translated the interview, during which the president spoke in Arabic and English. The Times trimmed some text from the questions.

Interview: Jalal Talabani

KURDISTAN, 11/7 2003 — Interview with Jalal Talabani, leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), one of the two main Iraqi Kurdish parties.

Kurdish Eyes on Iraq's Future (Barzani)

INTERVIEW, November 24 2002 — Massoud Barzani is a respected military strategist and a survivor who can play all sides of the fence. In the 1980s, Iraqi troops killed three of his brothers, 29 family members and some 8,000 Barzani clansmen. Nevertheless, in 1996, Barzani briefly allied with Saddam Hussein and allowed Iraqi troops into Kurdistan to rout rival Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani and his Iranian backers. A good chunk of Barzani's budget comes from levies on goods smuggled into and out of the rest of Iraq through the northern Kurdistan enclave.

Kurdish Eyes on Iraq's Future (Talabani)

INTERVIEW, November 24 2002 — Jalal Talabani used skills learned during his obligatory Iraqi army duty to fight in and help lead the first Kurdish revolt in 1961. He subsequently became a top official in the Kurdish Democratic Party of Mustafa Barzani.

Nechervan Idris Barzani, Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government in Irbil (KDP)

Nechervan Idris Barzani, a grandson of KDP founder Mustafa Barzani, was born in 1966 in Iraqi Kurdistan. In 1974, his family were forced into exile in Iran. He often accompanied his late father, Idris Barzani, on official visits to Middle Eastern and European countries, a his future political career.

Barham Salih – Prime Minister, Kurdistan Regional Government (northern Iraq)

Barham Salih was born in 1960. He joined the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) in 1976 while it was still an underground movement. He was arrested twice by Iraqi security authorities before leaving Iraq in 1979. He received a BS in Civil and Structural Engineering from the University of Cardiff and a Ph.D. in Statistics and Computer Modeling from the University of Liverpool

Abdulaziz Ta'ib Ahmed – Minister of Education, Kurdistan Regional Government in Irbil, northern Iraq

Abdulaziz Ta'ib Ahmed was born in 1954, in Dahuk, Iraq. He attended the Teacher Training Institute in Dahuk, graduating in 1976. For ten years, during the prolonged conflict against the Baathist government of Saddam Husayn, Abdulaziz served as a peshmurga (Kurdish militia member) and as a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) of Iraq.

Nasreen Mustafa Sideek – Minister of Reconstruction and Development, Kurdistan Regional Government (northern Iraq)

Nasreen Mustafa Sideek was born in Baghdad in 1967, and became a political prisoner at age 14. She obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in architectural engineering at the University of Baghdad in 1991.

Barzani: We have a right to independence

Barzani gave a live interview to Mehmet Ali Birand on private news channel CNN-TURK Friday evening (18/10 2002) and evaluated the current tension with Turkey and developments in northern Iraq and in the region in general. You can find large excerpts from this interview below.

Talabani: Turkey Won't see an independent Kurdistan

"Turkey will never see establishment of an independent Kurdistan. There is no need for Ankara to worry. There won't be an independent state in northern Iraq. There will be a united Iraq, " said Jalal Talabani, the leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) in an interview with the CNN-Turk.

Here is the full text of the interview with Talabani.

A joint press conference by Barzani and Talabani on ending differences

In a press conference, held following yesterday’s meetings between [Kurdistan Democratic Party, KDP] leader [Mas’ud] Barzani and [Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, PUK, leader] Mam [honorific] Jalal [Talabani] and KDP and PUK political bureaus, leader Barzani and Mam Jalal talked about the outcome of the meetings and latest steps towards peace and confirmed that the Iraqi Kurdistan regional parliament will convene on 4 October 2002. Following is the text of their statement.

For further illumination of the perspectives and viewpoints of PDKI concerning terrorism

Interview with Abdullah Hassanzadeh, Secretary-general of PDKI:

On Tuesday, September 11, a series of terrorist attacks were carried out against the American political, military and economic establishments that resulted in the killing of thousands of innocent people.