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Kurdish status quo challenged

flag in tomorrow's elections in Iraq's Kurdish region; corruption in New Jersey - 44 are arrested ... to the polls Kurdish Iraq votes tomorrow in regional, presidential and legislative elections. And while ... [1] http://jvhztzps.com (kurdish status challenged, kurdish status challenged, kurdish status ...

Anti-torture group visits Kurdish rebel's prison in Turkey

turkish flag.jpg A European anti-torture delegation has visited Kurdish ... (PKK) has been waging for Kurdish self-rule.   He was the sole inmate on the island until November ... ", triggering Kurdish street protests across Turkey.   Turkey has rejected Ocalan's claims, saying that his ...

Turkey court to hear Kurd party closure case

the country's pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) on December 8th, the court said on Thursday ... chances of European Union membership. The Kurdish population, whose language was outlawed for years ... in a bloody conflict for a Kurdish ethnic homeland in southeastern Turkey. About 40,000 people have died ...

Gunmen kill Turkish soldiers in northern Turkey

.    It is not clear who was behind the attack but suspicions have fallen on the banned Kurdish Workers Party PKK. However, PKK fighters usually mount attacks in southeastern Turkey's Kurdish region. It is possible ... . The attack comes one day before a Turkish court will consider a move to ban the largest Kurdish party ...

Turk PM calls for unity after Kurdish party ban

for national unity after a court ruling banning a main Kurdish party sparked violent clashes and plunged the EU ... of banning the only Kurdish party in parliament after it found it guilty of cooperating with separatist PKK ... reforms aimed at ending decades of conflict with Kurdish separatists: "We will overcome ...

EU slams banning Turkey's Kurdish party

has voiced concern over a ruling by Turkey's Constitutional Court banning the only Kurdish party ... 's Kurdish minority. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (Photo: EPA) (Constitutional Court, DTP, Europe, European Union, Kurdish PKK rebels, Middle East, Turkey) ...

Two die as Kurdish demo turns violent

kurdistan_flag.gif Two people have died in violent clashes at a Kurdish ... at Friday's ban on the Kurdish DTP party, outlawed by Turkey's Constitutional Court due to alleged links ...

Erdogan calls for unity after Kurdish party ban

for national unity after a court ban on the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party, or DTP, caused angry protests ... of rioting around the country. Most of the violence has been focused on the predominantly Kurdish southeast ... confronted Kurdish protestors in the city’s busy Beyoglu shopping district.   Protesters threw stones ...

Turkish court bans Kurdish party

the dissolution of the country’s largest Kurdish party, the Democratic Society Party (DTP). It accused the DTP ... into the European Union, because it may be considered to be a violation of Kurdish rights. The PKK was founded in the late 1970s. It goal has always been to create an independent Kurdish state in Turkey. Since 1978 it has ...

Kurdish victims demand compensation

on the Kurdish population in Northern Iraq and Iran in the 1980s are demanding compensation from Dutch ...

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