IVOS 2: ΚΕΙΜΕΝΑ,ΕΙΚΟΝΕΣ

    (1)   Division of Iraq becomes Turkey’s main concern Residents demand Iraq's Vice-President Tareq al-Hashemi to be put on trial during a demonstration outside the headquarters of Diyala local government in central Baquba, about 65 km (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad December 20, 2011. REUTERS Photo Despite the fact that Turkish politics was almost totally occupied with French Parliamentary vote to criminalize the denial of Armenian genocide allegations, Iraq was raised to the first rank among Turkey’s foreign and security policy worries last week. The reason was a court order against Tariq al-Hashemi, the deputy to Iraq’s President Jalal Talabani. Accused of subversive acts against Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s government, Hashemi immediately left Baghdad to hide in the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) controlled northern sector of Iraq, bordering Iran and Turkey. This development was alarming in Ankara, since ...

Collateral Murder Overview 5th April 2010 10:44 EST WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad -- including two Reuters news staff. Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom of Information Act, without success since the time of the attack. The video, shot from an Apache helicopter gun-site, clearly shows the unprovoked slaying of a wounded Reuters employee and his rescuers. Two young children involved in the rescue were also seriously wounded. The military did not reveal how the Reuters staff were killed, and stated that they did not know how the children were injured. After demands by Reuters, the incident was investigated and the U.S. military concluded that the actions of the soldiers were in accordance with the law of armed conflict and its own "Rules of Engagement". Consequently, WikiLeaks has released the classified Rules of Engagement f...