As threats mount to the security of both sides, the leaders of Turkey and Iraq’s Kurdistan region gathered in Ankara on July 14, with the agenda dominated by the search for a solution to the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) financial crisis...
Araz News: NROA’s First Secretary Davud Turan wrote an open letter to Mohsen Rezai, Secretary of the Expediency Discernment Council of Iran. In response to an address made by Mr. Rezai to people of Azerbaijan, Mr. Turan, in an open...
The United States came out on Thursday against a call by Iraq’s Kurdish leader for an independence referendum, saying the country could only repel Islamic State radicals by staying united.Massud Barzani, leader of the autonomous region, earlier told parliament to...
Araz News: Nader Gazipour, parliamentarian of Urmia in Iranian parliament, in a press interview said: “The only investment by the government in our province was the sugar factory of Miandoab which was made by Defense Minister. Except that the government...
The president of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan Region has told the BBC he intends to hold a referendum on independence within months. Massoud Barzani said that Iraq was already “effectively partitioned”. While the Kurds would play a part in a political...
Araz News: Iranian president Hasan Rouhani issued an order to start Lake Urmia rescue operation. Oyrenci Sesi web site of South Azerbaijan reports, in a press conference on June 29, Mr. Rouhani, as head of the High Council of Environmental...
Israil Will Recognize Independent Kurdistan/Peshmerga Will Not Leave Kirkuk Israel: ‘democratic’ Kurdistan to be independent soon Tel Aviv tells Washington that Kurdish independence is a ‘foregone conclusion’ as Iraqi Kurds vow to keep control of Kirkuk Israel told the United States...
Turkmens looking to form their own brigade against ISIL militants in Kirkuk Iraqi Turkmens will form a brigade of approximately 6,000 people to protect the Turkmen-populated areas of the Kirkuk province from the threat of militants led by the Islamic State of Iraq...
Gunmen have shot and killed a senior member of the Iraqi Turkmen Front, Munir Kafili, in an armed attack in Kirkuk on Tuesday. Reports state that Kafili died at the scene after sustaining a gunshot to the head when his...
Araz News: A group of Azerbaijani Students from Mohaghegh Ardabili University of Tabriz protested some local publications in Tabriz which insult Turks. Navid-e Azerbaijan weekly, which is being published in Urmia (capital of West Azerbaijan province of Iran) and distributed...
The Turkmen community in Iraq’s northern city of Kirkuk have begun to take up arms after militants linked with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) reportedly captured the Turkmen-majority city of Tel Afar. “Turkmens have the right to...
ISIL-led militants seize Turkmen-populated city of Tal Afar in northwestern Iraq Militants led by the group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, ISIL, took complete control of northwestern Iraqi district Tal Afar on Monday, according to a security source....
Araz News: Hundreds of people rallied in two largest South Azerbaijan cities, Tabriz and Urmia. Protesters sounded slogans related to Lake Urmia disaster and blamed president Rouhani to not keeping his promises on Lake Urmia. According to Araz News correspondents...
“The speed of the jihadis’ advance has shocked the Iraqi government and its Western allies” Iraqi Kurdish forces say they have taken full control of the northern oil city of Kirkuk as the army flees before an Islamist offensive nearby....
By Alim Bayaliyev (the 19/02/2014 of the CACI Analyst) In early June this year, Turkey will host the fourth Summit of the Turkic Council, an intergovernmental organization that brings together Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey. Presidents Ilham Aliyev, Nursultan...
