But Turkey is resisting the effort, saying the killings were merely casualties of war.
Asim said his 400-bed hospital treats all casualties of war, including civilians and even suspected Taliban.
From a hard-nosed perspective, the other nominees who will not get up-or-down votes in this round can be considered casualties of war.
The eight British and four American dead were the first coalition casualties of the war against Iraq.
Along with fierce border battles with tens of thousands of casualties, the war of rhetoric also reached fantastic heights.
They were just early casualties of a war that would cost 100, 000 lives.
Written at the behest of the progressive online news website Truthdig, Young's letter laid out the circumstances of his life and blamed Bush and Cheney for all the casualties of the war.
Relations between the US and al-Jazeera have come under increasing strain - particularly after al-Jazeera broadcast pictures of American casualties and prisoners of war, and US forces bombed al-Jazeera's Baghdad office killing one journalist.
Among the first casualties of the war with Iraq should be one of the most cherished illusions of recent American defense strategy the notion that the only certain means of preventing genocidal attacks against the American people is to ensure that the U.S. population remains utterly vulnerable to them.
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Finally, now's as good of a time as any to take a look at some of the peripheral casualties from this war of attrition.
Britain lost six ships and suffered hundreds of casualties in the war.
Western public opinion, it was believed, had no stomach for the sorts of casualties that a ground war would have entailed.
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McAuliffe said the United States is "stuck in a quagmire" -- paying 90 percent of the costs of the war and suffering 90 percent of the casualties.
"Most civilian casualties in the final phases of the war were caused by government shelling, " the report added.
You will not be surprised that your former home of Camp Lejuene has been the base of tremendous casualties in the Iraq War.
It is also hard to assume an invasion of Iraq would be as smooth, short and low-cost in terms of casualties as the first Gulf War.
One of the most notable elements in modern war is the generally lower level of its own casualties that a state will tolerate (the other side too, at least if there is a camera around).
That's because as casualties mount, people become more conscious of the war.
Its essential policy is to have sufficient forces to inflict heavy casualties on any attacker in the event of a war, while relying upon its nuclear forces to deter any conflict in the first place.
Each measure represents a week of the war, and the number of notes played per measure represents the number of casualties that week: 10 casualties in a given week result in a measure with 10 notes played.
Bush also drew a picture of his war-planning options amid a wave of sectarian and insurgent violence, continued casualties of U.S. forces and an Iraqi government that the report said is struggling to reconcile the fractious nation's many cultural differences.
As they are increasingly partnered with Afghan commandos and police, special-operations troops are expected to see more casualties going forward as they take on the majority of the war's burden, Western officials say.
He opposed the war not on principle but for fear of casualties: he had been presented with estimates that ran high as 40, 000.
The struggle to write a constitution in Iraq and the mounting casualties have stirred passions here at home about the course of the war.
Mr Connick said Lady Thatcher had a "tremendous amount of compassion, especially during the Falklands War when the casualties started to come in".
"In a worst-case scenario, retaliatory responses to an accident during either side's military exercises or a deliberate military provocation could lead rapidly to war with potential first-day casualties in the hundreds of thousands, " it said.
Unlike, say, in the war in Afghanistan, there is no investigation of civilian casualties, and no compensation paid.
These casualties tend to peak in the weeks after a war, explains Richard Lloyd, of Landmine Action, a campaign group, as people return to places that they had wrongly assumed to be safe.
Even long-time allies of Moscow such as Belarus' Cold-War dictator Alexander Lukashenko have become casualties in the new energy game, seeing a nearly fourfold increase in energy prices over a year ago.
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