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The CENASIA Discussion List
Prevalent image and media coverage of the Kurdish question in Western countries is highly distorted by certain political views and biased entirely on Turkish Kurds, although there are also Kurds in Iran, Iraq, Syria, an Score: 1.00. Rank; 1. size: 49KB Last modified: 01 DEC 2000. http://www.eurasianet.org/resource/cenasia/hypermail/200011/0038.html
The CENASIA Discussion List
Bartholomew, Tugrul Keskingoren_< <<>><<>>_Associate Editors Y. Pursun, S. Badretdin, N.S. Cox__<<>>< <<>___Yakup Tuna, Ekrem Kasap, Ayse Oztekin, Terken Hacaloglu__<<>>< <<><su Score: 1.00. Rank; 2. size: 65KB Last modified: 01 APR 2001. http://www.eurasianet.org/resource/cenasia/hypermail/200103/0036.html
ZNet | Foreign Policy | CONSPIRACY AND CRISIS
The human rights issue and the Kurdish national question are also related to this problem. The two countries´ prime ministers conferred on possible venues for an international conference on a political solution to the Kurdish question with European invol Score: 1.00. Rank; 3. size: 92KB Last modified: 08 FEB 2002. http://www.zmag.org/content/ForeignPolicy/aram0122.cfm
http://www.hrw.org/reports/1999/turkey/turkey993-08.htm
International law protects the rights of persons to assert their membership in an ethnic minority and to express themselves in the minority´s traditional language. 1 Consequently, legal obstacles in Turkey that preventindividuals from administering priva Score: 0.99. Rank; 4. size: 73KB Last modified: 21 NOV 2001. http://www.hrw.org/reports/1999/turkey/turkey993-08.htm
The Cia In Kurdistan
A side-effect and result of this war was the establishment of a "safe haven" for Kurds fleeing Iraqi-occupied Kurdistan. This safe haven turned out to be a base for CIA maneuvers against the Iraqi regime, utilizing Kurdish "assets" as Score: 0.99. Rank; 5. size: 18KB Last modified: 20 SEP 2001. http://www.zmag.org/Zmag/articles/dec96kurdi.htm
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Although Northern Ireland, Kosovo and the Kurdish conflict, can all be characterized as ethnic conflicts, their obvious similarities are riddled by large and often overlooked differences. The minority problems of Kurds in Turkey and Albanians of Kosovo ha Score: 0.98. Rank; 6. size: 21KB Last modified: 14 OCT 2000. http://www.greekhelsinki.gr/english/articles/AIM22-4-98.html
barsamian
He was Assistant Secretary General and the UN's Humanitarian Coordinator of the oil-for-food program in Iraq. Phyliss Bennis is a fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies, where she is responsible for UN and Middle East programs. The Iraqi Kurds are g Score: 0.97. Rank; 7. size: 28KB Last modified: 20 SEP 2001. http://www.zmag.org/ZMag/articles/barsamian.htm
Necessary Illusions: Appendix V [9/33]
Reviewing media coverage of the Kurds, Vera Beaudin Saeedpour observes that "beginning in 1979, the Kurds of Iran captured the attention of the Times" as they took up arms against the Khomeini regime. Safire "championed the Kurds of Iraq" from 1976, Saeed Score: 0.97. Rank; 8. size: 8KB Last modified: 20 SEP 2001. http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/ni/ni-c10-s09.html
Iraq: New Internationalist magazine 316 - Uncertain future
Sarah Graham-Brown outlines the Kurds´ complex relationship with the Iraqi Government. Following decades of intermittent hostilities between the Kurds and a succession of Iraqi governments, the Ba´ath Party in 1970 proposed limited Kurdish autonomy in th Score: 0.97. Rank; 9. size: 16KB Last modified: 13 OCT 1999. http://www.oneworld.org/ni/issue316/future.htm
The CENASIA Discussion List
As Turkey marks the second anniversary of the Kurdish rebel leader's Feb. 15 capture, the government's continuing hard line on Kurdish issues is keeping European Union membership - the long-held dream of Turkish foreign policy - out of reach. In the capit Score: 0.96. Rank; 10. size: 45KB Last modified: 01 MAR 2001. http://www.eurasianet.org/resource/cenasia/hypermail/200102/0054.html
K H R P : Annual Report 1998
Finally the situation in the south east of Turkey remains critical, four regions in the south east remain subject to a state of emergency, with the Kurdish population denied their basic cultural, political, and linguistic rights. During the last week in Score: 0.96. Rank; 11. size: 25KB Last modified: 21 MAR 2000. http://www.khrp.org/about/annual98/country.htm
Ilisu Dam Report 2000
This report is based on an international Fact-Finding Mission to the region of the planned Ilisu Dam in Southeast Turkey between 9th and 16th October 2000. Few infrastructure development projects have caused as much international controversy in recent ye Score: 0.96. Rank; 12. size: 339KB Last modified: 25 JUN 2001. http://www.khrp.org/publish/p2000/IlisuReport2000.htm
http://www.hrw.org/reports/1999/turkey/turkey993-07.htm
A journalist writes an article on a controversial topic without incident. A series of articles may be published in a newspaper uneventfully, only to confront a legal challenge when republished as a book. In March 1991, Mr. Duran published articles based Score: 0.96. Rank; 13. size: 115KB Last modified: 21 NOV 2001. http://www.hrw.org/reports/1999/turkey/turkey993-07.htm
Kurdish youth: `There are a thousand Apos left'
It is no coincidence that Ankara has launched a wave of repression against Kurds in northern Kurdistan (southern Turkey) and southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq). News of Ocalan's seizure by Turkish commandos in Kenya on February 15, and Ocalan's public hum Score: 0.95. Rank; 14. size: 10KB Last modified: 12 JAN 2002. http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/1999/351/351p13.htm
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
In August 1984, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) launched a guerrilla war with the aim of winning "national self-determination" for Turkey's 15 million Kurds. PKK spokespersons claim larger numbers-generally 30,000-while the PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan c Score: 0.95. Rank; 15. size: 34KB Last modified: 22 NOV 2001. http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/war/war_47_199611-12_07.txt
Acknowledgements
Copyright notice: All copyright rests with the Kurdish Human Rights Project. This report is based on a fact finding mission carried out by the Kurdish Human Rights Project in south east Turkey between 20th and 25th September 1999. To what extent does th Score: 0.95. Rank; 16. size: 196KB Last modified: 25 JAN 2001. http://www.khrp.org/publish/p1999/IlisuReport.htm
New Internationalist magazine Mega Index : Ka-Kz
(#324-2000 Jun p9) Keynote editorial -- on pesticides: pick your poison (#323-2000 May p9) Keynote editorial -- on fair trade: small change, big difference (#322-2000 Apr p9) Keynote editorial -- on development & human rights, Ayacucho, Peru (#321-2000 Ma Score: 0.94. Rank; 17. size: 48KB Last modified: 20 DEC 2001. http://www.oneworld.org/ni/subject/k.htm
NI Chronicle of World Events for 1996
Liberia According to aid workers, about 15,000 people fleeing renewed fighting in north-western Liberia are threatened with starvation. Turkey/Kurds Thousands of Turkish troops shell Kurds in the south-east and attack them in their UN-designated safe are Score: 0.94. Rank; 18. size: 52KB Last modified: 14 APR 2000. http://www.oneworld.org/ni/chronicle96/chronicle1996.html
Human Rights Watch: Ocalan Trial Monitor
Denied political, and cultural rights, Kurds have been the principal victims of the Turkish state's excesses since the military coup of 1980. Although village guards were theoretically set up to defend villages from attack, the Turkish security forces ha Score: 0.94. Rank; 19. size: 19KB Last modified: 21 NOV 2001. http://www.hrw.org/backgrounder/eca/turkey/kurd.htm
IN THE DOCK - Tansu Ciller
Turkey is desperate to join the European Union - gaining official membership of the rich world. Charges: Genocide - `ethnic cleansing´ and systematic attacks on Kurds who form a majority in Turkey´s six south-eastern provinces. Prosecutor´s notes: Çille Score: 0.94. Rank; 20. size: 18KB Last modified: 17 NOV 1999. http://www.oneworld.org/ni/issue275/tansu.htm
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