Kurds

Iraq’s Unformed Government: What Do the Kurds Want? (Time.com)

October 6th, 2010

Time.com - The Kurds are key to Maliki’s ability to form his ruling coalition. TIME asks the head of Iraq’s Kurdish regional government for his assessment

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Iraq’s Kurds hold political cards for al-Maliki (AP)

October 2nd, 2010

FILE - In this Oct. 18, 2006 file photo, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki walks through central Najaf, 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad. Aides to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr say his powerful political bloc has agreed to support the Iraqi prime minister's bid to stay in power and end a nearly seven-month political impasse. The backing of al-Sadr would push the Shiite-led coalition of Nouri al-Maliki close to the needed parliamentary majority to form a new government. Iraq has been in political limbo since March elections, won by a Sunni-backed bloc but without enough seats to oust al-Maliki.(AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani, File)AP - Kurdish lawmakers began Saturday to plot their course as Iraq’s kingmakers with enough seats to secure a second term for Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and press key demands,…

Attacks threaten unusual Turkish outreach to Kurds (AP)

June 16th, 2010

FILE - In this file photo of Nov. 9, 2007 Turkish Kurd villagers in Turkey's pre-dominantly Kurdish southeast protest a surge in attacks by the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, in Calisan village in the province of Sirnak near Turkish-Iraqi border southeastern Turkey. A remarkable Turkish attempt to end the country's 26-year-old fighting against Kurdish rebels by granting cultural freedoms to a minority, whose existence once rejected and barred from speaking Kurdish in public appears to have deadlocked, as a dramatic escalation in rebel violence raises the prospect of a return to the grinding warfare that has killed about 40,000 people. (AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta)AP - Kurdish rebels have dramatically stepped up attacks in Turkey this month in an escalation that poses a dire threat to a remarkable attempt at ending one of the…

Iraq’s Kurds want a voice in exchange for support (AP)

April 1st, 2010

In this photo taken Monday, March 29, 2010, An ancient castle towers above a park in Irbil, Iraq. After years of what they consider unfulfilled promises, Iraq's Kurds are hardening their demands to wring out the best deal from prospective allies following an election that has left the country's future government unclear and the Kurds' support more prized than ever.(AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - After years of what they consider unfulfilled promises, Iraq’s Kurds are hardening their demands to wring out the best deal from prospective allies following an election that has…

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