Peshmerga praised for role in Diyala 
BAQUBA, Iraq, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- Kurdish officials praised the role of the Peshmerga forces in restive Diyala province as Iraqi troops arrested a Sunni provincial council leader there.
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Gelfoam sponges needed in Kirkuk 
BY Julia Duin
Four years ago, I visited northern Iraq, spending two weeks in Iraqi Kurdistan and one week in Turkish Kurdistan.
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Suicide bomber injures 12 police
A SUSPECTED suicide bomber detonated a car outside the southern Turkish city of Mersin while on the run from the police today, killing himself and wounding 12 officers.
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Kurdish Control of Kirkuk Creates a Powder Keg
By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr.
KIRKUK, Iraq — The phone rang, and it was answered by a Kurdish security commander, Hallo Najat, sitting in his office in this deeply divided city.
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A Tradition Still Alive in the Turkish Press
It’s not the first time that a mainstream newspaper in Turkey features a highly provocative front page headline making an unfounded accusation that would obviously incite public hatred and animosity towards the “other.”
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After 24 Years Of Violence, The Kurdish Problem Is Still Not Solved
Bianet interviews figures of different opinion regarding Kurdish problem on the 24th year of PKK's declaration of war. CHP deputy Serter advises sticking to the same method,
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The Invisible People 
By Sherkoh Abbas and Robert B. Sklaroff
The major remaining obstacle to Iraq's achieving political and military surcease is Iranian-backed Muqtada al-Sadr, and the major obstacle to Israeli-Arab peacemaking is Syrian-backed terrorism.
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SYRIAN DEMOCRATIC COALITION: THE FATE OF GENERAL MOHAMMED SULEIMAN 
A recent assassination makes Syrian politics look as mysterious as ever THOSE who speak do not know and those who know do not speak. That classic adage of how information flows in a dictatorship has always fitted Syria rather well.
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Beşikçi: Solution to Kurdish issue needs analytical deliberations first 
"There is still a policy based on the destruction and denial of the Kurds..."
This highly regarded 69-year-old man is "the Blonde Professor" of Turkey's Kurds, since -- as Martin van Bruinessen of Utrecht University has very appropriately said --
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British keep a close eye on Kurdish region
Eager to reclaim their influence over oil-rich Iraq, a group of British MPs have penned a report, which pushes for more investments in Kurdish region.
Great Britain was among the first western countries to have a say in both Iraqi and Kurdish affairs. Even before the military intervention of the First World War,
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Kurdish regions 'may explode' in violence
BAQUBA, Iraq, Aug. 12 (UPI) -- The presence of Iraqi national forces along the eastern border of Iraq is causing tensions with the Kurdish Peshmerga forces, officials said.
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Turkey's abandonment of the West
Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST
Russia's invasion of Georgia should serve as proof that there are some regimes that simply cannot be considered strategic allies of the West.
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Turkey to launch Kurdish-language TV
however, have been criticised for poor quality and shallow content.
Turkey will launch a Kurdish-language television channel in 2009. Turkey's state broadcaster will launch a Kurdish-language television channel in 2009, its director said in an interview published Monday.
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Syria: Economist Freed as Crackdown Goes On
Government Should Release All Jailed for Peaceful Dissent
New York, August 8, 2008) – Syria's release of prominent activist `Aref Dalila on August 7, 2008, after seven years' detention, is welcome,
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Iranian Minorities' Human Right Organisation (IMHRO)
The Iranian government has executed Mr Yaghub Mehrnahad, a 28 year old Baluchi journalist, human rights and cultural activist, who criticised the Iranian government's treatment of Baluchi people.
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Don’t Forget ‘The Other Iraq:’ Why the US and UK should do more to support Iraqi Kurdistan 
By Julia Pettengill, Henry Jackson Society
Executive Summary
1. Iraqi Kurdistan is the unheralded success of Iraq, and stands as a beacon of Iraq's democratic potential.
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Barzani: Iraq will fall apart if constitution violated 
Erbil, Kurdistan – Iraq (KRG.org) - Kurdistan Region President Masoud Barzani yesterday in Erbil said that Iraq is in danger of falling apart if the constitution is violated.
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Iran: Kurdish activists condemned to death
Tehran, 7 August (AKI) - Two Kurdish activists have been condemned to death in a closed court hearing in the Iranian city of Sanandaj.
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Kurdish literature in the former Soviet Union Republic of Armenia 
By ferhad pirbal
Although Kurdish literature and culture in the former Soviet Union and especially in Armenia do not have a long history, they do have a distinct identity in the first quarter of the last century, and they did play a role in the development of Kurdish literature in general.
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Kurdish Rebels Claim Responsibility for Turkey Pipeline Blast
Kurdish rebels have claimed responsibility for an explosion that sparked a fire, disrupting oil flow on the Turkish section of a pipeline that is a major supplier of oil to the West.
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