David Holthouse, Southern Poverty Law Center. June 5, 2008. Denying the Armenian holocaust is illegal in France and Switzerland, but thanks to millions spent by Turkey it's still covered up in the US.
Sam Dagher, Christian Science Monitor. April 29, 2008. Tensions are rising between Kurdish, Arab, and Turkmen factions over the heart of northern Iraq's oil industry.
Yahya Ahmed, IWPR Online. April 22, 2008. "They are Kurds and demand their own rights": Villagers in northern Iraq continue to support rebels fighting Turkey and Iran.
Caroline Tosh, Zaineb Ahmed, Institute for War and Peace Reporting. April 1, 2008. The US needs to persuade the political winners of recent years to cede some of their power, but that might be easier said than done.
Juan Cole, MIT Center for International Studies. March 6, 2008. There are three major conflicts in Iraq -- and the U.S. is virtually powerless to stop them.
Patrick Cockburn, The Independent UK. February 25, 2008. Many Iraqi Kurdish leaders are convinced that a hidden aim of the Turkish attack is to undermine the Kurdish regional government.
The Times of London UKJanuary 6, 2008. A former FBI translator claims U.S. officials allowed Pakistan and other states to steal nuclear weapons secrets.
International Herald TribuneOctober 16, 2007. Fears of an attack halting production in the oil-rich Kurdish region are largely responsible for sky-high prices.
Lindsay Beyerstein, AlterNet: PEEK. October 11, 2007. Lindsay Beyerstein: If Turkey is going to abandon us over the symbolic recognition of a 92-year-old historical fact, I'm not sure they are such a valuable ally.
Juan Cole, Informed Comment. August 8, 2007. Iraqi-Turkish relations are strained, and the Kurds pass an oil law before the national government in Baghdad.
Patrick Cockburn, CounterPunch. July 23, 2007. Another war in Iraq looms as Turkey's 140,000 troops amassed on the border with Kurdish Iraq threatens to set off a new wave of violence and destabilization in the Middle East.
Dogu Ergil, MIT Center for International Studies. June 11, 2007. The principal threat to democracy in Turkey comes not from the Islamic-tied Justice and Development Party but from its secular opponents.
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, AlterNet. November 23, 2006. One vegetarian shares the bond she developed with turkeys after finding alternatives to this traditional Thanksgiving comfort food.
