| Description | Folder of presscuttings, telex reports and digest bulletins relating to the Kurds between 1990 and 1991. These include several discussions of the Kurdish role in the future of Iraq, a cutting from the Tehran Times reporting on PLO mediation between the Kurds and the Iraqi regime (9 December 1990), reports of violence on the border between Turkey and Iraq, including Turkish air attacks on Iraqi Kurds, a Telegraph article on overseas development minister Lynda Chalker's concern about the use of charitable funds donated for supporting the Kurds, an illustrated article by Patrick Cockburn, 'Waiting for War', in the Independent magazine (30 November 1991), various news digests compiled by the BBC Summary of World Broadcasts reporting on statements, meetings and other activities by Kurdish political leaders, plus numerous articles on Iraq's economic blockade and military operations against the Kurds following the end of the Second Gulf War. |