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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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Full text: UN resolution

NEW YORK, (United Nations) 8/6 2004 — The following is the text of the US and British resolution on the future of Iraq, passed by the UN Security Council on Tuesday 8 June 2004:

Full text: Third draft of Iraq resolution

[4/6 2004] A third draft of a proposed UN resolution on Iraq is being circulated by the US and UK at the Security Council.

Letter from Barzani and Talabani to President Bush

June 1, 2004

His Excellency President George W. Bush
President of the United States of America
The White House
Washington, D.C.

Dear Mr. President:
We are writing this letter to your Excellency to present our views and concerns on the new Iraqi Interim Government, the Kurdish position and the future of the country.

LAW OF ADMINISTRATION FOR THE STATE OF IRAQ – FOR THE TRANSITIONAL PERIOD

8 March 2004
PREAMBLE
The people of Iraq, striving to reclaim their freedom, which was usurped by the previous tyrannical regime, rejecting violence and coercion in all their forms, and particularly when used as instruments of governance, have determined that they shall hereafter remain a free people governed under the rule of law.

Constitutional Development

Agreement on Political Process

1. The “Fundamental Law”

• To be drafted by the Governing Council, in close consultation with the CPA. Will be approved by both the GC and CPA, and will formally set forth the scope and structure of the sovereign Iraqi transitional administration.
• Elements of the “Fundamental Law”:
– Bill of rights, to include freedom of speech, legislature, religion; statement of equal rights of all Iraqis, regardless of gender, sect, and ethnicity; and guarantees of due process.

Text of U.S.-Drafted Resolution on Iraq

UNITED NATIONS, 16/10 2003 (Reuters) - Following is the text of U.N. Security Council resolution 1511, a U.S.-drafted resolution on Iraq's future that was adopted unanimously Thursday by the 15-member council.

Text of US draft resolution on Iraq

[6/9 2003] — The following is the text of the United States' draft resolution aimed at creating a multinational force in Iraq, presented to the United Nations Security Council on 4 September 2003:

Text: 'Saddam Hussein' message

LONDON, 7/7 2003 — Al-Jazeera TV has broadcast 10 minutes of a 20-minute audio tape it said was apparently the voice of deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. The text of the recording, as edited and broadcast by the TV, follows.

UNITED STATES POST-WAR POLICIES IN IRAQ

Testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Ambassador Peter W. Galbraith
June 12, 2003

Mr. Chairman, Members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee:

Operation Iraqi Freedom has transformed Iraq. Even Iraqis opposed to the American military occupation embrace the result -- the removal of Saddam Hussein and his Ba’ath regime.

UN Iraq resolution: Full text

NEW YORK, 22/5 2003 — Full text of the resolution approved by the UN Security Council lifting economic sanctions against Iraq:

UN draft resolution: Full text

STOCKHOLM, 10/5 2003 — Full text of draft resolution the United States plans to introduce to the United Nations Security Council on Friday, co-signed by Britain and Spain.

Masoud Barzani’s Memorandum regarding the Missing victims of Anfal and Oppression campaigns

In a detailed memorandum to all relevant local and international bodies and parties, Mr. Masoud Barzani, President of Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) called for assistance in determining the fate of tens of thousands of missing Kurdish people and to publicly announce this tragedy, indict the perpetrators and compensate victims, their families and relatives.

The Treaty of Sèvres, 1920

THE TREATY OF PEACE BETWEEN THE ALLIED AND ASSOCIATED POWERS AND TURKEY SIGNED AT SÈVRES AUGUST 10, 1920

U.S. statement after Iraqi opposition meeting

UR, Iraq, 15/4 2003 (CNN) -- Iraqi leaders opposed to former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein convened Tuesday in the ancient southern Iraqi town of Ur -- the first of several U.S.-sponsored meetings on the nation's future. Following is a 13-point statement released by the U.S. Central Command about the proposed new Iraqi government and future meetings:

The full text of tonight's speech by President Bush on the conflict with Iraq

Monday, March 17, 2002
BUSH: "My fellow citizens, events in Iraq have now reached the final days of decision. For more than a decade, the United States and other nations have pursued patient and honorable efforts to disarm the Iraqi regime without war. That regime pledged to reveal and destroy all of its weapons of mass destruction as a condition for ending the Persian Gulf War in 1991.

Speech of Mr. Masoud Barzani (26/2 2003)

SALAHADDIN, 26/2 2003
Speech of Mr. Masoud Barzani, President of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, at the Opening of the Follow-up and Coordination Committee of the Iraqi Opposition in Salahaddin

Final Statement Meeting of the Coordination and Follow-Up Committee held in Salahaddin, 26 February – 1 March, 2003

As Iraq faces a critical stage in its history, the Coordination and Follow-Up Committee that was elected at the London Iraqi Opposition Conference between 13-16 Dec. 2002, held its first meeting with the participation of 54 members, in the liberated territory of Iraq, in the city of Salahaddin in heroic Kurdistan, between 24-28 February 2003.

Draft Text of Resolution 1441

Text of the U.N. Resolution (1441) on Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction, 8-nov-2002 [format: pdf]

Draft Text of Resolution 1441

Political Statement of the Iraqi Opposition Conference in London

The Political Statement of the Iraqi Opposition Conference in London, 14-16 December 2002

Text of Iraq's letter to the U.N.

Thursday, November 14, 2002
(AP) -- The following is the text of a letter from Iraqi Foreign Affairs Minister Naji Sabri to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, as provided in English by the United Nations: