Najeeba Mohammed, Institute for War and Peace Reporting. May 16, 2009. Will there be a breakthrough to end the fighting between Turkey, Iran, and Iraqi Kurds?
Patrick Cockburn, Independent UK. April 30, 2009. A unique civilization that has existed in Iraq for thousands of years, the marsh Arabs survived Saddam but now are losing a battle against nature.
Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet. November 27, 2008. Unlike Alaska's governor, most Americans don't want to see the transformations their turkey went through to get to their Thanksgiving dinner table.
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.
