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Turkey offers reforms for Kurdish minority

Long-simmering tensions with Kurdish militant separatists led to a week-long incursion into northern Iraq in February to target bases.
Will an extended Turkish offensive further destabilize Iraq?

President Bush wants a limit to the Turkish campaign against rebels, but Turkey says no to a timetable.
Turkish raid strains U.S.-Kurd ties

American support in strike against PKK rebels threatens relations with key Iraqi allies.
Turkey votes to lift head-scarf ban, but battle continues

The country's leading secular opposition party has vowed to appeal this weekend's decision to lift a head-scarf ban to Turkey's top court.
The storied Mediterranean faces climate change

In the first of a four-part series, the Monitor examines the impact of man-made pressures on the region.
The storied Mediterranean faces climate change

In the first of a four-part series, the Monitor examines the impact of man-made pressures on the region.
Turkish trials spur reform of police, judiciary

Allegations of misconduct in two murders – one of an outspoken journalist – have heightened debate.
Powerful car bomb in Turkey kills five and injures dozens with outlawed Kurdish Workers Party or PKK suspected

The attack Thursday in Diyarbakir reinforces pressure on Turkish authorities to continue aerial bombing of PKK positions in northern Iraq. Fighting between the PKK and Turkish security forces threatens to destabilize Kurdish northern Iraq and make Iraqi political reconciliation more difficult.