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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
“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...
Turkic Council Junior Diplomats 1st Joint Training Program Turkic Council Junior Diplomats 1st Joint Training Program was held in Turkey on 13-25 April 2014. The decision about organizing this Program was taken at the Council of Foreign Ministers on 15...
China’s northwestern Xinjiang region was rocked by its worst violence in years on Thursday when explosions struck a morning market in the regional capital Urumqi, killing 31 and injuring 90. Authorities have ramped up security measures in Xinjiang in the...
China has launched a terrorism crackdown one day after a series of explosions in an open-air market killed dozens in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang, the country’s state news agency, Xinhua said Friday. Without any details, the report said...
At least 31 people have been killed and more than 90 injured after two vehicles ploughed into a market and explosives were thrown in China’s restive Xinjiang region ( East Turkistan ), the official Xinhua news agency reported. Two off-road...
The Iraqi Independent Election High Commissariat announced the results of the General Elections of the 30th of April. Two persons from the Iraqi Turkmen Front participating in the elections from Kirkuk under the name 280 Kirkuk Turkmen Front List were...
