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Thousands of Monitors Prepare for Turkish Election ISTANBUL More than 55,000 election monitors are preparing for Sundays parliamentary elections in Turkey. Tensions are high, with Turkish Kurds bracing for possible violence as the party of President
Jumping right into the CNN 10 today, we're taking you to the Middle East where an ethnic group has repeatedly voted for its independence but may not be likely to get it. In the nation of Iraq, home to more than 39 million people, about 15 percent to
Today's down-the-middle coverage starts with the Middle Eastern country of Syria. It's been torn apart by civil war for seven years, and the involvement of another country could complicate it further. Syria's war isn't just being caught by two sides.
By Deborah Block Washington 11 September 2006 watch Saddam Trial report The second trial of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein resumed September 11th in Baghdad. Saddam and six other defendants are charged in connection with the killing of thousands
By George Dwyer Washington, D.C. 24 August 2006 watch UNIFEM report A new report from UNIFEM -- the United Nations Development Fund for Women -- finds that violence against women in post-Taleban Afghanistan remains widespread, and that much of it co
By Deborah Block Ibrahim Khalil, Iraq 30 October 2007 Truck and taxi drivers at the main crossing point of the border between Iraq and Turkey worry it could be closed soon, as the Turkish government threatens a military incursion into northern Iraq.
By Brian Padden Irbil, Iraq 26 August 2006 The genocide trial of Saddam Hussein for a military operation against Iraqi Kurds two decades ago, has brought the Anfal campaign back into the headlines. Prosecutors say 180,000 Kurds were killed and thous
By Simon Marks Diyarbakir, Turkey 27 March 2007 watch Marks report As violent instability convulses much of Iraq, the country's neighbors are keeping a watchful eye. In recent weeks, Turkey has warned Kurds in northern Iraq not to make any moves to
State prosecutors in Turkey have ordered the excavation of several sites around Turkey that they say may hold Kurdish victims of state death squads from the 1980s and 1990s, a step ahead in efforts to force the country's security establishment to co
By Carolyn Weaver New York 27 October 2009 Organizers call it a cinema across borders, the first-ever festival of Kurdish film in the United States. The films chosen for the five-day event at New York University focused on a people widely dispersed,
Seizure of Oilfields Fuels Kurd Statehood Dream LONDON Along the desert horizon around Kirkuk, the bright flares from oil wells puncture the summer haze. An estimated 4 percent of known global oil reserves lie beneath these sands. It is a prize that
Leading Fight Against Islamic State, Kurds Question Iraqi Future 抗敌主力库尔德人对伊拉克未来存疑 LONDON Western countries including the United States have begun arming the Kurdish Peshmerga forces in northern Iraq to aid their battle
Violence on Rise in Iraq's Oil-Rich Kirkuk Area Four months ago, Tuz Khormatu, a sleepy town 80 kilometers southeast of Kirkuk, became the new frontline between Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region and the central government. Political tensions over
By Dorian Jones Diyarbakir 16 July 2007 As Turkish voters get ready to head to the polls for general elections July 22, tension is rising among the Kurds in Turkey's southeast. Although the Kurdish nationalist party has been gaining support in the re
By Margaret Besheer Washington 16 November 2007 Tensions continue along the Turkish-Iraqi border as Turkish security forces pursue rebels from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) who have used safe havens in northern Iraq to launch attacks inside Turke
By Daniel Schearf Irbil 26 February 2008 The Iraqi government has demanded the immediate withdrawal of Turkish troops, saying the five-day incursion is threatening their otherwise friendly relations. Daniel Schearf reports from the northern Iraqi cit
By Margaret Besheer Irbil, Iraq 19 June 2006 In the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, the insurgency wracking other parts of the country seems remote. In a region that has long attended to its own affairs, people are looking to the future. In the cit
By Dorian Jones Diyarbakir 06 August 2007 Independent candidate Aysel Tugluk stands before completing registration formalities at the Turkish parliament in Ankara, 29 Jul 2007 In Turkey's general election last month, the Islamic rooted Justice and De
By Jim Randle Irbil, Iraq 04 September 2007 An appeals court in Iraq has upheld the death sentences of several former top officials of Saddam Hussein's government. The best known is Chemical Ali who got his grim nickname for using poison gas against
By Brian Padden Irbil 13 September 2007 The Kurdish region of Iraq is still coming to terms with the cultural and political ramifications of the brutal honor killing of a 17-year-old Yazidi girl in April. Men in her village killed the girl because sh