Posts tagged as: Kurdistan

Turkish foreign policy – A friendship of convenience

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In recent years, Turkey’s foreign policy is summarized in the phrase “zero problems with neighbors”, designed by the newly nominated prime minister and even foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu. However, the current situation for Turkey is one of serious problems with almost all its neighbors. Although Ankara has 30 years fighting a Kurdish insurgency in its […]

Leader of Turkey’s Kurds announces final stretch of conflict

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“This war that has lasted 30 years is through an important democratic negotiation, the phase that leads to an end.” Who speaks so hope is the leader of the militia of the Workers Party of Kurdistan (PKK, Kurdish), Abdullah Ocalan, imprisoned since 1999 and sentenced to life itself. ” On the occasion of the 30th […]

EU supports sending weapons to Kurds of Iraq

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The Veintiocho already have the other European Union member states to supply weapons to the authorities in Iraqi Kurdistan. After a week of ups and downs, the position of France and Italy from -favorable initially sending weapons to fight the militants of the Islamic State (EI) – has been imposed on the initial reluctance of […]

European Union divided on shipment of arms to Kurds

European Unity

Divided without definite position on how Europe should act in Iraq. The permanent representatives of the 28 member states of the EU without agreement on Tuesday closed an extraordinary meeting to discuss the open conflict in the country, where the terrorist group Islamic State (EI) aims to establish an independent caliphate. The consensus among the […]

France announces delivery of arms to Kurds of Iraq

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Without waiting for a possible European consensus on the issue, France announced on Wednesday morning to deliver weapons “in the coming hours” to the forces fighting the jihadists of the Islamic State (EI) in Iraq. The day before, the Permanent Representatives of the 28 EU countries in Brussels had failed to agree on a common […]

Jihadis take another city despite air support from USA

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The three days of air strikes by American forces in northern Iraq to stop the advance of the militants of the Islamic State (EI) ” have been very effective on the basis of reports received from the ground,” said Monday the Secretary of Defense USA, Chuck Hagel, during a bilateral summit with Australia in Sydney. […]

Kurdish soldiers take control of two oil fields in northern Iraq

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The peshmerga, the security forces of Iraqi Kurdistan, have taken on Friday the control of production facilities at two oil fields in Kirkuk and Bai Hassan in the north of the country. As reported by the oil minister quoted by Reuters, Kurdish soldiers have thrown the entire Arab staff of both plants and have been […]

Kurdish leader calls for independence referendum

Massoud Barzani

The president of the regional government of Iraqi Kurdistan on Thursday asked the autonomous parliament in Erbil to start working on the organization of a referendum on independence. “I ask your help to fix the date of a referendum on independence,” Massoud Barzani told lawmakers in a closed session, according to the Kurdish online newspaper […]

Turkey-Iraq oil pipeline comes under attack

Istanbul: (Saturday, July 21, 2012) Turkish authorities are clamouring for attack on pipeline that carries petroleum from Iraq to Turkey’s Mediterranean coast due to which oil supply have been cut since this last Friday. According to the details, fire on the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline erupted near the town of Midyat in southeastern Turkey. While the allegations […]

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