Kurds News
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Kurdish rebels belonging to the militant PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) have began pulling their fighters out of Turkey, and back to their main stronghold in northern Iraq.
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Baghdad -
The Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki announced on Friday that he would gladly work on reconciling Iraq's relations with Turkey.
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Istanbul -
On the day that Kurdish people celebrate a new year and the coming of spring, Turkey and the PKK terrorist organization announce a ceasefire.
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It has been 25 years since Saddam Hussein's forces infamously wiped out 5,000 Kurds with poison gas in the town of Halabja in 1988.
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Istanbul -
Sociologist Pinar Selek has been sentenced to life imprisonment for a 1998 bombing in Istanbul, even though she had been acquitted three times previously and experts say that there was no bombing but the explosion was an accident caused by a gas leak.
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On Tuesday, troops from Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region opened fire on an Iraqi army helicopter flying near Sikanyan town located north of Kirkuk, a city which sits atop some of the world's largest oil reserves.
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Mannheim -
What was supposed to be a fun day at a Kurdish cultural festival in Mannheim Germany ended in violence and left eighty police officers injured.
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A look at the views, stances and actions of Syria’s Kurdish population with regard to the current civil war in that country.
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Ankara -
The Kirkuk to Ceyhan oil pipeline carries about one quarter of Iraq's oil exports. Kurdish separatists are blamed for the huge blast.
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Baghdad -
The Iraqi government has issued an admonishment to the largest American oil company over the company’s reported efforts to expand its oil holdings into the Kurdish region in the country’s north.
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On March 16, 1988, at the height of the Iraq-Iran war, at the direction of dictator Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi Air Force unleashed chemical warfare upon the Kurds, an ethnic group, in the Iraqi city of Halabja. At least 5,000 people were killed in that attack and many thousands more suffered permanent physical, emotional and mental disabilities
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