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	KIM nominates Baqi Barzani to run as an independent candidate in the upcoming Kurdistan's presidential elections Following extensive discussions, KIM has decided to nominate Baqi Barzani as the legitimate representative of the organization to run as an independent candidate in the upcoming presidential election in Iraq Kurdistan versus the incumbent Kurdistan Regional Government President Mr. Massoud Barzani. Baqi Barzani has met all eligibility requirements. As citizens of Kurdistan, we reserve every right to elect ourselves for any election. Democracy must be respected. We ask KRG to provide valid expenses to our candidate for political campaign ( Funds, access to media... Read More » Obama: Mimic Economic Recovery is not a real Recovery-U.S.A. By Omar Sindi. Labor statistics are still in decadence. As long as nation's national dept; remain outlandishly high, it's very perilous to the economic improvement. A big portion of GDP goes to pay to the lenders. In spite of, many national news media have been boosting since the president Obama's second inauguration, encouraging average people that the American economy is getting lusty. Despite, many liberal news papers that are the president's biggest media supporters, which tried to put a hopeful face on the economy's middling numbers, yet to admit that any long term unemployed worker will say... Read More » Kurdish opposition parties in Iraqi Kurdistan oppose referendum ERBIL-Hewlêr, Kurdistan region 'Iraq',— The call made by Iraqi Kurdistan region President Massoud Barzani to put the recent Kurdistan Regional Government KRG draft constitution to a referendum was officially rejected by the Kurdish opposition forces in the region. The latter consist of the Movement for Change, the Islamic Group and the Kurdistan Islamic Union, and they have stressed the need to reach a political consensus on the draft. On Sunday, May 26, Barzani delivered a speech in Erbil in front of a large crowd of his supporters on the occasion of the anniversary of the outbreak of the... Read More » Kurdish students in Iraqi Kurdistan push for relations with Israel ERBIL-Hewlêr, Kurdistan region 'Iraq',— In University of Kurdistan, students debate whether to forge diplomatic ties with Israel. Debate judge tells Ynet 'arguments focused on historical connection between Jews, Kurds, says believes can have 'fruitful ties'. "Should Iraqi Kurdistan have open diplomatic relations with Israel?" Students in the University of Kurdistan think the answer is yes, at least that is the position that won during an unusual debate held in the university in Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan. More than 200 students from all of the university's faculties showed up to take part. In the... Read More » A Dysfunctional Relationship, a Necessary Partnership By Hiwa Osman. The relationship between politics and media in Iraqi Kurdistan has oscillated between bad and unhealthy. Neither political interests nor the media have managed to overcome their disabilities, failing to create a healthy relationship that would shape citizens who are educated, informed and aware of the place and region where they live. By political interests, we mean the bodies that run the Kurdistan Region, like the regional presidency, government or parliament, as well as the political parties that are on both sides of the political divide. Each one has a different... Read More » Kurdistan Region-Iraq News in brief. June 3, 2013 Kurdistan opens "Kir Erbil" mass grave. Erbil: Kurdistan regional government (KRG) announced on Monday taking out the remains of a mass grave in a cemetery located in "Erbil's Kir plant " date back to the eighties of the last century. According to a statement posted on the presidency of KRG Website, "The Minister of Martyrs and Anfal Affairs, Aram Ahmed said that it is scheduled to start on Monday, to take out the remains found in the mass grave, which is called Erbil's Kir plant, 2 km to the south of the city center in collaboration with a team from the Ministry of Iraqi Human Rights and... Read More » There Are Settlements… By Gerald A. Honigman: Most people associate the word these days with Jews wanting to return to lands--beyond Israel's 1949 UN-imposed, 9 to 15 mile wide armistice line existence--which they have called home, lived on, and owned property in for millennia but which much of the world now declares must once again become Judenrein. As others have also noted before, after the official breakup of the centuries old Ottoman Turkish Empire almost a hundred years ago, the Minutes of the League of Nations' Permanent Mandates Commission and other solid documentation described a huge influx of Arabs... Read More » The Kurds and Peace: Kurds tend to forget the past easily Dr. Aland Mizell: Throughout history, the Kurdish people have faced one incontrovertible fact of real politics. Kurds have no real predictable or long-term allies in the Middle East. Because of disunity among Kurdish people, they have often sought alliances with international powers, and most of the time these friendly allies decided it was in their interest to drop Kurds in favor of the regime that they opposed. For example, in the war in Iraq first in the 1991 Gulf War and then the 2003 Gulf War, the Turkish government was against any autonomous Kurdish region, but then Turkey realized that they could... Read More » My journey back to Kurdistan! Dr Shakawan Ismaeel: It has been just over 3 weeks since I have landed in Hawler [Erbil] the capital city of South Kurdistan [Iraqi Kurdistan]. In the past whenever I landed in Hawler once or twice a year, the trip started with the feeling of happiness and ended with I don't want to leave and stay here forever. This time however the emotion was different as I am back to the motherland for good. As soon as I stepped out of the airport I was welcomed with the fresh smell of the Kurdistan soil as it was raining on that night. I could not wish for any better welcome from the land that I have left... Read More » Iraqi Kurdistan president Massoud Barzani says Baghdad talks last chance ERBIL-Hewlêr, Kurdistan region 'Iraq',— Iraqi Kurdistan will be forced to seek a "new form of relations" with the central government in Baghdad if negotiations fail to resolve their disputes over oil and land, the president of the autonomous region said. Massoud Barzani, who has hinted at full independence from Iraq in the past, told Reuters the current round of talks, which started last month, marked the final opportunity to end a feud that has strained Iraq's uneasy federal union to the limit. How the matter is settled will have a major impact on oil producers like Exxon Mobil and Iraq's... Read More » Iraq's IHEC approves electoral system of Kurdistan's President BAGHDAD,— The Independent Higher Electoral Commission (IHEC) in Iraq announced on Monday, completing preparations for local elections in Anbar and Nineveh, while stressing the ratification of the election system of the President of Kurdistan Region and the regional parliaments' candidates. "We have completed all the logistical and technical preparations to hold elections of Anbar and Nineveh's' councils, as scheduled after receiving security reports," The head of the electoral administration in IHEC, Meqdad al-Sharifi said at a news conference. The Iraqi Cabinet agreed previously on... Read More » Iraqi Kurdish rivalries play out over the border: Taking the fight to Syria SLÊMANÎ, Kurdistan region 'Iraq',— The KDP and PUK parties are former enemies turned partners to rule Iraqi Kurdistan. But some say the KDP been trying to take advantage of PUK leader Jalal Talabani's ill health to win friends and influence people – and, especially, people in Syria. Recently the first pictures of Iraq's ailing President, Kurdish politician Jalal Talabani, were released after his stroke. The elderly Talabani was hospitalised in Baghdad then flown to Germany for further treatment; he remains in Berlin. At one stage, it was rumoured he had died and there were calls for a new president to be put in his... Read More »
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