Go to the Content Thursday, 9 February 2012
Your search for "Kurdish People" produced 16 items.
| 1. Inching away from democracy? | January 19, 2012 |
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Observers fear rise of ‘illiberal democracy'. European Union officials are increasingly worried that Turkey might be drifting in the direction of authoritarianism. A wave... |
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| 2. Violence still haunts city of Van | November 2, 2006 |
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Although conflict continues, Kurds in south-eastern Turkey are hoping for a peaceful solution Flying in from Istanbul, the plane breaks through low-level clouds and suddenly... | |
| 3. Dangerous games in a Turkish legal quagmire | August 31, 2006 |
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The run-up to Turkey's EU negotiations is overshadowed by the still-festering Kurdish issue. Since the 1980s it has, according to official figures, claimed 37,000 lives and,... | |
| 4. Eastern workers and Berlusconi's new exile | April 20, 2006 |
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Belgium offers an ever-so-slight nod to the free movement of workers within a unified Europe by allowing some - but only some - people from new member states to move to this... | |
| 5. Terror brings reforms into focus | September 29, 2005 |
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The EU and Turkey are united by the delicate balancing act they must both achieve in the fight against terror. Such a bond could help Turkey's efforts toward reform, writes... | |
| 6. Looking for best way to handle the Kurds | September 29, 2005 |
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan's acknowledgment of the 'Kurdish problem' has brought the issue back into sharp focus. David Cronin reports Not for the first time, Turkey's Prime... | |
| 7. Turkey offers EU more punch | September 1, 2005 |
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Opponents of Turkish accession to the EU often claim that it would damage the cohesiveness of the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP). They argue that a country... | |
| 8. Mistaken identities | October 21, 2004 |
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It's nice to be appreciated. The Kurdish activist Leyla Zana addressed a meeting of the 200-strong Socialist group in the European Parliament last week. She was in Brussels... | |
| 9. EU-Turkey talks to get OK next week, but human rights still a massive issue | September 30, 2004 |
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FRITS Bolkestein has warned that the victory of Christianity over Islam at the 1683 Battle of Vienna might be in vain if Turkey joins the EU. His Austrian colleague Franz... | |
| 10. Aftermath of an anthrax attack | March 27, 2003 |
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A film thriller recounting the gassing of a Kurdish community in the European Union has proven to be frighteningly topical. James Drew talks to its director, Kenny Glenaan... | |
| 11. Turkish film ban breaks accession rules | May 23, 2002 |
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TURKEY'S ban on a movie depicting police brutality flouts the conditions required for the country's EU membership, enlargement chief Günter Verheugen has warned.... | |
| 12. Kurdish rights a key obstacle to Turkey's acceptance by EU | April 8, 1999 |
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ABDULLAH Öcalan's arrest highlighted the Kurdish issue in the most visible way since the western powers urged Iraqi Kurds to rise up against Saddam Hussein at the end of the... | |
| 13. Bonino rejects attacks over Union stance on rebel Kurd | February 25, 1999 |
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HUMANITARIAN Affairs Comm- issioner Emma Bonino has hit back at Ankara's accusations that the EU is interfering in Turkish affairs over the Öcalan case. Bonino said this... | |
| 14. IN BRIEF | February 4, 1999 |
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After three years of talks, the EU and South Africa have clinched a ground-breaking 20-billion euro free trade deal. Development Commissioner João de Deus Pinheiro and South... | |
| 15. Action stations in Kurdish refugee crisis | January 8, 1998 |
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EU DIPLOMATS are frantically trying to put together a Union-wide action plan to tackle the Kurdish refugee crisis. In a flurry of meetings between now and the end of the... | |
| 16. Under the influence | July 10, 1997 |
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Kurdish protesters really should employ an EU consultant. Last week they were to be found demonstrating outside the European Parliament – on a Friday afternoon. That has to... | |
