Kurdish Separatism

The Mahalo Top 7

1. TIME: "Kurd Leader Defies Turkish Threats" (November 2, 2007)
2. Reuters: "Turk Sanctions on N.Iraq May Stoke Kurd Separatism" (October 30, 2007)
3. The Times: "‘We Have No Choice, We Will Defend Our Land and Our Dignity’" (October 29, 2007) 
4. BBC News: "Kurds Show Coded Support for PKK" (October 26, 2007)
5. Jamestown Foundation: "Kurdish Peshmerga Reinforce Turkish Border" (April 24, 2007)
6. International Affairs Journal: "Kurds and Secession: the Dangers of Dismemberment" (June 6, 2006)
7. Google News: Kurdish Separatism   Last 3 headlines
   • Iranian accusations of separatism and treason - Kurdish Aspect
   • Former US diplomat Peter Galbraith grabs hundreds of millions in Iraqi oil money - Axis of Logic
   • The State of Democracy and Local Administrations in Southeastern Turkey - Journal of Turkish Weekly

Issue Recent News Stories

• Yahoo! News: Kurdish Separatism   Last 1 headlines
  • U.S. troops are hostages of Iraq's broken democracy (Salon.com)
• Belleville New Democrat: "In Iraqi Kurdistan, Sympathy for the PKK" (November 5, 2007)
• Dallas Morning News: "An Ancient Culture on the Edge of Crumbling" (November 4, 2007) 
• Ottawa Citizen: "Kurd Would Move Back 'In a Heartbeat'" (November 04, 2007)
• BBC News: "Turkish troops 'kill PKK rebels'" (October 28, 2007)
• Herald Sun: "Bush Offers to Bomb Kurds" (October 24, 2007)
• Associated Press: "Nature, Terrain Dictate Turkish Moves" (October 27, 2007)
• Jamestown Foundation: "Turkey's Coming Offensive Against the Iraqi-based PKK" (April 12, 2007)
• BBC News: "Turkey Renames 'Divisive' Animals" (March 8, 2005)
• NPR: "The War's Impact on Iraq's Neighbors" (March 2, 2007)

Kurdish Separatism Background

The Kurds and Kurdistan

• Mahalo's Guide to The Kurds
• Wikipedia: Kurdistan and Kurdish People
• The Encyclopedia of Kurdistan: Kurdistan and Its Native Provincial Subdivisions 
• Kurdish Picture Gallery: Kurdish Pictures Gallery, Kurdish History and Culture
• National Agency for School Improvement: Kurdish Maps 
• Washington Post: "Who Are the Kurds?" (1999)

The Peshmerga

• Wikipedia: Peshmerga
• PressTV: "3 Peshmerga Troops Killed in Iraq" (November 4, 2007)
• Florida State University: "Willing to Face Death: A History of Kurdish Military Forces" (October 28, 2005)
• New York Times: "Kurds Vow to Retain Militia as Guardians of Autonomy" (February 27, 2005)
• BBC News: "Fact file: Kurdish Fighters" (April 11, 2003)
• Guardian: "Revenge Spurs Women's Army" (November 26, 2002)

Turkish Kurdistan

• Wikipedia: Turkish Kurdistan
• Federation of American Scientists: The Kurds in Turkey
• KurdishUprising.com: The Amed Uprising 2006 (Time 18:08) (37.97MB) 
• Kurdistan Observer: "Minors On Trial in Turkey Over Kurdish Uprising" (May 8, 2006)
• The Internationalist: "US-Turkish Relations, Iraq and Kurdish Separatism" (April 21, 2003)
• University of Helsinki: "The Invisible War in North Kurdistan" (2002) (1.53MB) 

Iraqi Kurdistan

• Wikipedia: Iraqi Kurdistan
• Official Site: Kurdistan Regional Government
• MSNBC Video: Daily Life in Iraqi Kurdistan (Time 11:40)
• Council on Foreign Relations: "Ansar al-Islam (Iraq, Islamists/Kurdish Separatists)" (November, 2005)
• Global Policy Review: "Kirkuk: Between Kurdish Separatism and Iraqi Federalism" (March 31, 2005)
• Christian Science Monitor: "Iraqi Kurds Consider Autonomy" (June 10, 2004) 

Iranian and Syrian Kurdistan

• Wikipedia: Iranian Kurdistan and Kurds in Syria
• International Herald Tribune: "Kurdish Militants' Other Front: Iran" (October 22, 2007) 
• Jamestown Foundation: "Iran's Kurdish Threat: PJAK" (June 15, 2006)
• Radio Free Europe: "Iran: Kurds Form Front To Demand Rights" (January 3, 2006)
• Voice of America: "Syria's Kurds Struggle for Rights" (September 2, 2005)
• The Estimate: "Syria and Turkey: Many Roots to the Recent Quarrel" (October 23, 1998)

Kurdish Separatism Commentary and Criticism

• Spectator: "Turkey is Right to Fight" (October 24, 2007)
• The Daily Relfector: "In the North - Kurdish Question Clouds Iraq's Future" (October 24, 2007)
• The Conservative Voice: "Questions for Kurdish Separatists" (October 22, 2007)
• Ali Reza Nourizadeh: "The Tragedy of Being Kurd in Iran" (April 27, 2004)

Kurdish Separatism Message Boards and Blogs

• Polo's Bastards: Troubled Times - A Brief History Of Kurdistan
• Syrian Comment: Anwar al-Bunni: Interview with Syria's Leading Human Right Lawyer 
• AlIraqi: Kurds Cry "Seperate" as Soon the Word Oil Came Up
• Viva Kurdistan: The World's Best Kurdish Community 

Central Figures

• PKK
  • Turkish Daily News: "US Turks Condemn PKK Attacks" (November 5, 2007)
  • BBC News: "US Declares PKK 'a Common Enemy'" (November 2, 2007)
  • Council on Foreign Relations: "Inside the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)" (October 19, 2007)

• Massoud Barzani
  • Wikipedia: Massoud Barzani
  • Official Site: Massoud Barzani Profile
  • CPJ: "30-year Jail Term for Kurdish Writer on Defamation Conviction" (January 11, 2006)

• Abdullah Gul
  • Wikipedia: Abdullah Gul
  • CNN: " Turkey out of Patience, Warns Gul" (October 25, 2007)
  • Turkish Weekly: "Abdullah Gul and the State's New Kurdish Policy" (September 15, 2007)

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