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	Turkish-Kurdish PKK peace process in Turkey faces the risk of deadlock ISTANBUL,— Turkey's main pro-Kurdish party is pressing Ankara to advance a peace process with Kurdish militants before a parliament recess, drawing a government accusation on Friday that it was exploiting unrelated unrest to extract concessions. Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters began pulling out of Turkish territory to bases in northern Iraq last month under a deal between the state and the group's jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan to end a conflict which has killed 40,000. In exchange for that withdrawal, the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) now expects the... Read More » Kurdistan's opposition Gorran accuses ruling parties of surrendering Kirkuk for political gain SLÊMANÎ, Kurdistan region 'Iraq',— The Kurdistan Region's opposition Change Movement (Gorran) has accused leaders of the autonomous enclave's two ruling parties of surrendering an opportunity" to incorporate oil-rich Kirkuk province into the autonomous Iraqi enclave in 2003 for political gain. "We had a golden opportunity to reincorporate the disputed territories but the Kurdish leadership did not seize the opportunity," Gorran leader Nawshirwan Mustafa told a party conference in Slêmanî (Sulaimaniyah) this week. He accused Massoud Barzani, leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) who is also... Read More » Kurdistan Region-Iraq News in brief. June 22, 2013 KDP wins quota of Shabak and Yazidis in Nineveh. Masul: A close source to brotherhood and coexistence list for provincial elections in Nineveh revealed on Saturday, that the preliminary results for the provincial council elections showed that two candidates close to Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) won two seats in the provincial council for Shabak and Yezidis. "The preliminary results of counting the votes showed (al-Shabak free council) list close to KDP won about 13,000 votes, while the share of (independent Shabak) won 7000 votes", the source said. "The preliminary results also showed that... Read More » Saddam Hussein's executioner killed near Baghdad BAGHDAD,— According to press reports, one of the men who carried out the death sentence against former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in 2006 was killed on Friday. The constitutionally outlawed Baath Party in Iraq said "its members killed Mohammed Nassif al-Maliki, a person who is considered in the statement a one of the perpetrators of the death sentence against Saddam near Yusufiya town, 25 km southwest of Baghdad. The statement added that "the person who was killed is man with the huge body who was covering his face and tried to put the mask of death on Saddam's... Read More » Russia to supply Iraq with attack helicopters Ka-52 and Mi-28NE BAGHDAD,— On June 18, an Iraqi military source confirmed that the air force command will receive "Alligator" combat helicopters from Russia in the coming period. In a statement to Al-Monitor, the source, a senior Iraqi army officer, said that "the aircraft will be of the Ka-52 and Mi-28NE models from the French Le Bourget Air Show." The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, explained, "The Iraqi air force command will get a new source of strength with the acquisition of this model of helicopter." The source continued, saying, "The new Russian aircraft, especially the Ka-52... Read More » Forced moustache shaving in Iranian prison sparks Kurdish Yarsan protests SAHNEH, Iranian Kurdistan,— Members of the Yarsan faith in Iran and across the border in Iraqi Kurdistan (Southern Kurdistan) have staged angry protests and acts of self-immolation, after Iranian prison guards violated a religious prohibition by shaving off the moustache of a Kurdish Yarsan inmate last week. The BBC's Persian service reported that, after prison authorities shaved off Kayomarth Nakat's moustache, two fellow Yarsans had set themselves on fire in protest outside the mayor's office in the Iranian city of Hamadan. One of them, Nimkard Tahiri, later died in... Read More »
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