Word: kurdistan
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...What remains? Two things seem clear. First, setting aside their sometimes murderous internal difficulties, the Iraqis outside Kurdistan have shown little inclination to divide their country, still believing a united Iraq to be the only viable long-term solution. Second, there is no way in which a continued American presence can make any substantial improvement to the effectiveness of Iraqi national government. Thus, the Americans are simply postponing the day in which the Iraqis themselves have to address their own problems in their own way. Whatever happens, there will be conflict and confusion when the Americans leave, with a fierce...
...year-old had come to Baghdad in April 2003 to join his father, then the leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), he said...
...Mustafa said he called his mother in Kurdistan only once during his five-month stay...
...Turkish government seemed unmoved by the Iraqi cabinet's statement on Tuesday condemning Turkey's incursion as a "violation of Iraqi sovereignty" and a "unilateral military action." The Turkish military sent ground troops into northern Iraq last Thursday to take on guerrillas of the Kurdistan Workers' Party...
...limit Turkey's operations in northern Iraq will have to come from U.S. Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, who arrived Wednesday in Turkey for talks. His visit had been planned before the latest fighting, but before leaving India for Turkey, Gates indicated that diffusing the crisis in Kurdistan was now at the top of his agenda. He told reporters that "it's very important that the Turks make this operation as short as possible and then leave. They have to be mindful of Iraqi sovereignty." And, putting a U.S. timetable on Turkish operations for the first time, Gates said...