... looting and vandalism broke out on Thursday and Friday. Kurdish "peshmerga" fighters swept into Kirkuk on Thursday as government forces collapsed, causing alarm in neighboring Turkey which suspects Iraqi Kurds want to claim the city as the capital of an independent state. Turkey fears this could fan separatism among its ...
... Turkey and allowing U.S. planes to make emergency landings in Turkey, were still being discussed. The secretary of state also repeated his disappointment with Turkey for refusing to let the U.S. use the country to invade Iraq from the north. He said the U.S. "worked around" Turkey ...
ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Diyarbakir is the largest city in Turkey's Kurdish southeast. It's a very old town along the Tigris River about two hours drive from the border with northern Iraq. Though this has been part of Turkey since it became a modern state after World War I, most ...
... convicted in the 1990s of inciting religious hatred. He had read a poem in public that was considered offensive by security authorities here, who uphold Turkey's historic commitment to secular rule. But his AK Party won the elections last fall, and once in power, changed the constitution. Erdogan was ...
... Turkey's own Kurdish minority. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said Monday the United States would prevail in a conflict with Iraq, regardless of whether Turkey cooperates. "Turkey is reviewing its options for what they will or will not be able to do, and we are evaluating our options and ...
... good idea to you? LT. GEN. BERNARD TRAINOR: Oh, I don't think there's any question about that. We would launch the attack from Turkey, going down the Tigress River corridor and taking Mosul and off to the west Kirkuk and continue straight one down to Tikrit, the hometown ...
... and personnel to Turkey. Belgium, Germany, and France are opposed. Nicholas Burns, the U.S. ambassador to NATO said the move to block aid to Turkey is a "most unfortunate decision by three allies to prevent NATO from assisting the legitimate defense needs of Turkey." U.S. Secretary of Defense ...
... scarves, like serving alcoholic beverages at official functions. Those kinds of issues sound funny in an American context, but they go very keep to what Turkey is all about in the minds of many Turks, and therefore yes the military and secular establishment but also a significant indeed a majority ...
... minority rights. Some people here said they fear the EU may never accept them. HUSNU PAKER (Translated ): I'm convinced that the reason is that Turkey is an Islamic country. I remember recently when a European prime minister said insulting things about Islam and Turkey because Turkey is a Muslim ...
... the wake of the First World War while the Ottoman Empire was disintegrating.ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: And so once again as it has through its history, Turkey is pursuing policies aimed at preventing a disintegration of Iraq and of Turkey itself. Meanwhile, in the southeast in Diyarbakir, Kurdish leaders are trying ...
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