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• How Did Kirkuk Become Such A Divisive Issue? A Portrait of The City In 2003

  
  The Ground Truth in Iraq — Authority: 127
  The Pre-War Situation As recent events have shown, Kirkuk remains one of the outstanding issues in Iraqi politics. Not only does it have a national dynamic between the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and Baghdad, but a local one between Kurds, Arabs, Turkmen, and Christians who live there and are all arguing ...
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• What conflicts sparked the Kurdish genocide of 1988?

  
  http://diddy.name — Authority: 169
  I am looking for some background on this horrible genocide. Who was in charge? Why did they want to kill the Kurds? What tactics did they use? What were their motives? Also, it would be great if you directed me to sources or a good documentary.
  1 day ago

• Profile | Seyyit Rıza

  
  Mavi Boncuk — Authority: 112
  Mavi Boncuk Seyyit Rıza (Dersim, 1862? - 1937) (in Zazaki: Sey Rıza, in Kurmanji: "Seyîd Riza") was a member of the Abbasan branch of the Sheikh Hasanan [1][2] tribe in Dersim [3]. He was the son of Seyid Ibrahim Agha, from an Alevi sacred family descended from Sheikh Ahmed Dede. Despite being his youngest son, ...
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• Ankara favors human rights bill, homecoming, for Kurds

  
  Eideard — Authority: 491
  Opening for Kurdish civil rights in Turkey.
  2 days ago

• Iraq Clerics Aide Urges End to Political Crisis

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 618
  BAGHDAD — A top aide to Iraqs Shiite spiritual leader on Friday urged the countrys fractious political blocs to solve a crisis over a key election law that threatens to delay national polls planned for January. Sheik Abdul-Mahdi al-Karbalaie , the representative of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in the ...
  2 days ago

• CREW Calls On State Dept. To Probe Galbraith Over Kurdish Oil Dealings

  
  EnviroKnow — Authority: 542
  Talking Points Memo reports : A good government group is calling on the State Department to investigate the role of former ambassador Peter Galbraith in drafting Iraq’s constitution in 2005 while he held a lucrative stake in a Kurdish oil field. The letter from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington ...
  2 days ago

• Editorial: Iraq’s Election Law Morass

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 916
  American officials need to help resolve the impasse over election laws in Iraq, and Iraqis must learn how to forge reliable compromises.
  2 days ago

• Iraq’s 2010 Election Law Faces New Challenge From Kurdistan

  
  The Ground Truth in Iraq — Authority: 127
  Iraq’s 2010 parliamentary election law was finally passed by the legislature on November 8, 2009 . It was then sent to the Presidential Council that consists of President Jalal Talabani, Vice President Adel Abdul Mahdi and Vice President Tarqi al-Hashemi for ratification. It was expected that they would immediately ...
  3 days ago

• Iraq Election Law Vetoed

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 487
  The New York Times reports Sunni Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi has officially vetoed Iraq’s new election law , citing insufficient representation of Iraq’s minorities and refugees abroad. The Kurds were also unhappy with the law, leading to a threat of a boycott and a likely veto from Kurdish Vice President ...
  3 days ago

• What if the Kurds boycott the election?

  
  Roads to Iraq — Authority: 473
  Just when everybody started to celebrate (especially the Americans) the approval of the election law, the Kurds opposed the law once again to take the discussion back to the start point. Barazani threatened to boycott the election if the Kurds demands are not met, which are: - corrects number of the population of ...
  4 days ago

• Adullah Ocalan: The PKK and I Have Proved We Are Ready For Peace.

  
  Hevallo. Turkey and The Kurdish Question. — Authority: 122
  Abdullah Ocalans Latest Comments from Imrali Prison. Kurdish info 16.11.09 – ‘‘There are sections of the (Turkish) State who are for a solution and sections that are against. Who will come out victorious will depend on the struggle between these two sections. A new phase has been entered. It is important ...
  4 days ago

• World Digest: Iraqi Kurds threaten to boycott January vote

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 969
  IRAQ Kurdish officials threatened Tuesday to boycott the upcoming national elections in the three provinces they control in northern Iraq unless more parliament seats are allocated to the region.
  5 days ago

• Iraq’s President and Vice President Want Election Law Revised

  
  The Ground Truth in Iraq — Authority: 127
  In the days after parliament finally passed the 2010 parliamentary election bill, both President Jalal Talabani of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi, formerly of the Iraqi Sunni Party, and now part of the new Iraqi National Movement , have called for it to be revised. They are ...
  5 days ago

• Kurdish Legislators Threaten Boycott of Iraq Election

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 916
  A week after Iraq’s leaders celebrated the passage of an election law, Kurdish lawmakers demanded a greater share of parliamentary seats.
  5 days ago

• Iraqi Kurds warn of election boycott in dispute over seats

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 969
  BAGHDAD -- Kurdish officials threatened Tuesday to boycott the upcoming national election in the three provinces they control in northern Iraq unless more parliament seats are allocated to the region.
  5 days ago

• Iran Update

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 618
  These events have been reported to World Threats. Nov. 16 - Beginning at approximately 11:00 AM, about 300 Kurd students gathered at Tehran University to protest the severe suppression of Kurd activists and especially against the execution of Ehsan Fatahian and the impending execution of Shirkoo Moarefi. They ...
  5 days ago

• Turkey ends years of isolation for jailed Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Turkey on Tuesday transferred five inmates to the prison island holding Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan so he can end his isolation. The Council of Europe had demanded that Turkey end Ocalans solitude, saying his mental state was deteriorating after years as the sole inmate of Imrali island, off Istanbul. The ...
  5 days ago

• Tuesday: 8 Iraqis Killed, 17 Wounded

  
  Antiwar.com Original — Authority: 134
  At least eight Iraqis were killed and 17 more were wounded in new attacks. Perhaps in hopes of further reducing violence, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ordered security forces to allow citizens to keep one piece of light arms in their homes.
  5 days ago

• Iraq Elections

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 487
  As resurgent Sunni attacks threaten long-term security in Iraq, the U.N. Security Council has called on Iraq’s political parties to show “national unity” ahead of elections.  The U.N. is concerned that “inside and outside forces continue their efforts to impose an agenda of division and destruction,” as ...
  5 days ago

• Good news from an unlikely source: The Middle East

  
  barganews — Authority: 131
  While the Obama Administration confronts military setbacks in Afghanistan, and Congress struggles through an acrimonious healthcare debate, there is unprecedented good news from a part of the world that is usually synonymous with crisis.For the first time in three decades covering the Middle East, I returned from a ...
  5 days ago

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