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change of stance
may help the Turkish government in its dialogue with the outlawed
Kurdistan Workers' Party (PICK) in the search for a political solution to the
Kurdish problem ... small, when maps have been
drawn and boundaries settled in the region.
Iraqi Kurdistan president Massoud Barzani repeated this demand again
recently. "Greater Kurdistan" is the goal, circumstances permitting ... near future, but nothing is impossible. The scene becomes
clearer still, Greater Kurdistan cannot be realized without revising the map,
redistributing land and changing its political, constitutional and
geographical makeup
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Kurds are an ethnic group in Middle East, mostly inhabiting a region
known as Kurdistan, which includes adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. The number of
Kurds living ... over 5% in Syria. The Kurds have had partial autonomy in Iraqi Kurdistan since 1991.
Nationalist movements in the other Kurdish-populated countries (Turkey, Syria, Iran) push for
Kurdish regional ... Sunni militants of the Islamic State. Massoud Barzani,
president of the largely autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government, has repeatedly suggested he will
soon initiate a referendum on the region's independence
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Iran
James Reynolds
Article 5.
Al-Quds Center (Amman)
The Road to the Great Kurdistan
Oraib Al Rantawi
Article 6.
Los Angeles Times
Can Romney break the Democrats' lock ... probably more than 25,000 that have not
registered. The Turks believe that the Kurdistan
Worker's Party (PKK), a separatist Kurdish terrorist
group, is using this population to infiltrate ... that
they haven't for many years. Key Kurdish leaders,
including Kurdistan Regional Government President
Massoud Barzani, have concluded that they cannot
work with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki -- whom
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than Iran
James Reynolds
Articles.
Al-Quds Center (Amman)
The Road to the Great Kurdistan
Oraib Al Rantawi
Articles.
Los Angeles Times
Can Romney break the Democrats' lock ... probably
more than 25,000 that have not registered. The Turks believe that the
Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK), a separatist Kurdish terrorist group, is
using this population to infiltrate ... that they
haven't for many years. Key Kurdish leaders, including Kurdistan
Regional Government President Massoud Barzani, have concluded that
they cannot work with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki -- whom
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Iran
James Reynolds
Article 5.
Al-Quds Center (Amman)
The Road to the Great Kurdistan
Oraib Al Rantawi
Article 6.
Los Angeles Times
Can Romney break the Democrats' lock ... probably more than 25,000 that have not
registered. The Turks believe that the Kurdistan
Worker's Party (PKK), a separatist Kurdish terrorist
group, is using this population to infiltrate ... that
they haven't for many years. Key Kurdish leaders,
including Kurdistan Regional Government President
Massoud Barzani, have concluded that they cannot
work with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki -- whom
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small, when =aps have been drawn and boundaries settled in the region.
Iraqi Kurdistan pre=ident Massoud Barzani repeated this demand again recently. "Greater Kurd=stan" is the goal,
circumstances ... future, but nothing is impossible. The scene becomes clearer still,
Greater Kurdistan cannot be realized without =evising the map, redistributing land and changing its political,
constitut=onal and geographical makeup ... want this to happen naturally and in discu=sion with the countries that divide
Kurdistan."
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It is impossible no= to hide the fact that
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veteran Kurdish politician and one of the founders of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party on July 24th.
This vote comes at a time of increasing speculation of a partition ... three entities: Sunni, Shia, and Kurdish. The
president of the already semi-autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan Region, Masoud Brazani, has said that the process of greater
separation is already, de facto ... underway. However, division within the Kurdish political class has complicated what a
future Kurdistan might look like, fueled by speculation of increasing competition between Turkey and Iran for influence
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partners in governing the country.
Second, relations between the central government and the Kurdistan region also
deteriorated to the extent that Kurdish leaders became convinced that Iraq's federal
structure ... eventually push the country to a state of civil war. In the case of Kurdistan region,
the Kurds will likely demand a restructuring of relations with Baghdad, perhaps
even seeking ... second path for Iraq—in the absence of compromise—will be fragmentation.
Kurdistan, which now controls all the disputed territories that were in dispute with
Baghdad and has also acquired
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irony of the current Iraqi mess is that the only stable area is
Kurdistan, whose leader, Barzani, is probably the strongest
political figure in the country. If Iran balks ... deepening its
ties with the Kurds — a step on the way to an independent
Kurdistan and a new map for the Middle East.
Read more from David Ignatius's archive ... irony of the current Iraqi mess is that the only stable area is
Kurdistan, whose leader, Barzani, is probably the strongest
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political figure in the country
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those that America has had the
least to do with: Tunisia and the semiautonomous Kurdistan
region of Iraq?
Answer: Believe it or not, it's not all about what ... make. Arabs and Kurds have agency, too. And the
reason that both Tunisia and Kurdistan have built islands of
decency, still frail to be sure, is because the major contending ... principle
of "no victor, no vanquished."
The two major rival parties in Kurdistan not only buried the
hatchet between them but paved the way for democratic
elections that recently brought
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direct
result of Mr. Davutoglu's "zero problems" vision: Iraqi
Kurdistan, which is now Turkey's best ally in Iraq, if not the
whole region.
This is deeply ironic ... Kurds into reconciliation and eventually an alliance.
The alliance between Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan has grown
over the past five years, as Turkey invested heavily in the partly
autonomous Iraqi ... further cemented earlier this month, when
Ankara signed a 50-year deal with Iraqi Kurdistan's leaders,
allowing them to export Kurdish oil to the world via a pipeline
that
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Further evidence of Turkey's pragmatism can be seen in its
behavior toward Iraqi Kurdistan, a region that the country's
former secular establishment used to see as a lethal ... fears that Turkey's own Kurds could agitate to
form a Greater Unified Kurdistan with Kurds in Iraq. The AKP
has viewed the region more as a zone of economic ... opportunity.
In the past decade, Turkish companies flooded Iraqi Kurdistan,
and the Turkish government gradually befriended Iraqi Kurds.
In 2011, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan opened a
Turkish-built international
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Iraqi Kurds, who
command 62 seats in the new parliament. On May 14,
Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) president Masoud
Barzani underlined his opposition in personal terms, stating,
"The Maliki that ... totalitarianism" in Iraq. According to Rebwar Sayid Gul -- a
senior official with the Kurdistan Islamic Union who attended
a May 18 gathering with other Kurdish leaders in Erbil -- the
Kurdish ... warned that "those who cut the budget of Kurdistan
are going to pay the price of that decision."
Regardless of the rights and wrongs of the federal and KRG
positions
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Duty"), he has extensive
experience in suppressing the Kurdish separatist movements in
Iranian Kurdistan in the immediate aftermath of the 1979
revolution and during the Iran-Iraq ... Kurds
already enjoy, as well as the right to pursue closer relations with
Iraqi Kurdistan.
But if that happened, how long would it take for the ties that
bind these ... Just as South
Sudan separated from Sudan after enjoying several years of
autonomy, Iraqi Kurdistan could try to negotiate a separation
from Iraq and then unite with a Syrian Kurdish
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Duty"), he has extensive
experience in suppressing the Kurdish separatist movements in
Iranian Kurdistan in the immediate aftermath of the 1979
revolution and during the Iran-Iraq ... Kurds
already enjoy, as well as the right to pursue closer relations with
Iraqi Kurdistan.
But if that happened, how long would it take for the ties that
bind these ... Just as South
Sudan separated from Sudan after enjoying several years of
autonomy, Iraqi Kurdistan could try to negotiate a separation
from Iraq and then unite with a Syrian Kurdish
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