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| Topic Started: 16th February 2013 - 07:31 AM (6,067 Views) | |
| AlanJunior | 25th March 2014 - 02:01 PM Post #51 |
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Another Kurd will run in the British Elections. This time for the labour party (finally!) so assuming that Zahawi remains in office, which I think he will since he is high ranked in the conservative party, we will have two Kurds in the British parliament. Both southern. I'm proud of Kurds in the U.K! Especially the southern ones, since we now have Kurds in the political arena, high educational institute (In most top UK unis!) and high-end Kurdish businessmen. |
 
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| ALAN | 27th March 2014 - 12:57 AM Post #52 |
 
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i use to warn jj about this but he always defended fayli kurds living on iraqi lands specially baghdad, why would you live in an arab country while you have your ancestral lands!!!!!?? 
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| Russian Girenak Joseph, who visited Kirkuk in Kurdistan as a part of his tour through the 1870 - 1873 AD, who published the results of his trip and his studies later in 1879, in the fourth volume in the Bulletin of the Caucasus department of the Royal Geographical Russian Society estimated Kirkuk's population as many as 12-50 thousand people, and he emphasized that except 40 Christian families, the rest of the population were Kurds. As for The Turkmen and Arabs, they have not been already existed at the time. | |
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| AlanJunior | 27th March 2014 - 04:51 AM Post #53 |
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Simko y u dislike |
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| Dalaho | 28th March 2014 - 01:26 AM Post #54 |
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Because u r living in the lands of a people that used our land specifically SK as a practise field for different types of chemical bobms and other types. |
| -"the best reward for martyrs is to continue their path..." Dr. Abdul-Rahman Ghassemlou |
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| Brendar | 28th March 2014 - 09:05 AM Post #55 |
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Diaspora returns to build South Kurdistan into the 'next Dubai' Rebuwar Baktyiar Jamil doesn't know where or when he was born, except that it was somewhere in the Kurdish mountains in 1991 before his mother fled Iraq. His father remained to fight against Saddam Hussein. A thick south London accent gives away his upbringing in Clapham Junction. But last year, as his fellow students at Cass Business School applied for internships at Morgan Stanley or Goldman Sachs, Jamil booked a flight to Irbil, capital of South Kurdistan. Like so many in the Kurdish diaspora, he wanted to be a part of the closest thing Kurds have had to their own state in modern history. "As Kurds, we all have things to be proud of about our fathers and grandfathers who – as peshmerga [Kurdish militia] – gave everything for this country. I felt like it was my turn to do something. If I had stayed in London and had that kind of life, I felt it would be an insult to them," said Jamil, outside a cafe in Ankawa, Irbil. Irbil's economic success since 2003 is well documented. Laudatory profiles of the city have pointed to the thousands of foreign and Kurdish-owned companies, a construction boom buoyed by the Kurdistan region of Iraq's (KRI) vast oil and natural gas reserves and, compared with the violence-ravaged south, relative stability. But the true picture is more complex. Irbil may be on a path towards becoming a slick, modern business hub but there is a long way to go. Its residents are hit with daily power cuts and struggle with a shambolic infrastructure. As of February 2014, most state employees had not been paid for more than two months and a serious cash shortage caused ATMs to run dry of Iraqi dinars. Meanwhile, South Kurdistan is hosting more than 300,000 refugees from Syria and southern Iraq, many of them in camps just outside the capital. And not everyone in Irbil is benefiting from the city's status as "the next Dubai". In the expensive bars and restaurants of the Christian district of Ankawa, the smoky tearooms of the bazaar or humble homes on the outskirts of the sprawling city, conversation inevitably turns to corruption. Powerful clans dominate politics and business. Former peshmerga soldiers gather every day in the central square opposite the city's bazaar. Hussein, 62, sitting in the midday sunshine outside a teahouse in the shadow of Erbil's historic citadel,laughed when asked about the popular comparison between Irbil and Dubai. "The ones in government, they are rich," he said, "but everyone else is poor. They're too greedy." Originally from the eastern city of Sulaimani, Hussein spent seven years with the peshmerga fighting Saddam and is unhappy that, in his 60s, he still has to look for work. "The peshmerga are not getting what they are due. They are being overlooked – even after we fought so hard," he said. Nur Adin, another retired fighter, was pleased about the construction work going on in Irbil. When he was a child, the recently redeveloped central square was a donkey market. But he believes that his 52 years in the city should entitle him to greater benefits from the government. "We have to be grateful to God that we are a rich country and that we can develop, [but] I was born in 1942 and I have no land from the government, while some others are given everything," he said. Falah Mustafa, the head of the Kurdistan regional government's (KRG) department of foreign relations, stiffened when asked about the preferential treatment accorded to Kurds with political or family connections. "We are fighting against perception," he said, as a power cut plunged the room into darkness. "I do not exclude that there have been mistakes. Problems are there; abuses are there. But it is limited and it is wrong to say that the whole [Kurdish] region is like that. We are making progress and improving day to day." And yet the divisions in Irbil are as much cultural as they are economic. Thousands of Kurds returned to the city with political and religious views forged in the west. But the war in Syria and daily bloodshed in the south have meant that extreme Islamism has also taken root in the Kurdistan region. The authorities were quick to point out that the September 2013 bombings in Irbil targeting the headquarters of the Asayish –the KRG security services – were the work of foreign Islamists rather than Kurds, but there have been cases of KRG Kurds heading to fight alongside extremist groups in Syria. Many in Irbil are concerned about what will happen when those radicalised young men come home. In the citadel that towers over the city's bazaar and city centre – said to be one of the oldest continually inhabited sites in the world –, the 47-year-old imam of the Mullah Afandi mosque marched across the room holding the Qu'ran. Imam Mohammed pointed at a passage forbidding the use of force in the conversion of non-believers to Islam. "All the imams here in the cities of South Kurdistan – in Erbil, Sulaimani and Dohuk – tell their people that it is not jihad to go and fight in Syria," said Mohammed, whose family have been mullahs at the mosque for more than six generations. He is concerned about young men being radicalised outside the cities in South Kurdistan, particularly in areas that are not as developed, such as the western city of Halabja and the disputed border city of Kirkuk. "In areas that have social and economic problems, in places that have security problems … Yes, I am worried about those areas," he said. He also said there were concerns that extremists were crossing the border from the south into South Kurdistan. Mustafa said the KRG was monitoring the problem, but stressed that only a small number of Kurds had been fighting alongside extremist groups in Syria. In more general terms, he cited the co-existence of Christians, Sunnis, Shias and secular Kurds in Irbil as an example of tolerance in South Kurdistan. "These are certain individual cases: it is not a phenomenon," he said. "We have an open and secular [society]. There are people who go to mosque and there are people who do not. There are people who drink alcohol and people who do not. [Kurdish] society at large rejects terrorism and has not allowed it to be established in the region." For returnees such as Jamil – who recently took on a job at the Irbil stock exchange, due to launch by the end of this year – it is that mix that presents one of the best opportunities for Kurds in their bloody history to build something lasting in South Kurdistan. "As a people we have always been divided. We've never been one. We can accommodate many different views and still work together – [because] nobody else cares about us. The Kurds are the only people who can help themselves." http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/25/diaspora-returns-to-build-iraqi-kurdistan |
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| Brendar | Today, 12:53 AM Post #56 |
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Britain’s Labour Party Selects First British-born Kurdish Candidate LONDON--Britain’s opposition Labour party last week selected Laween Atroshi as its first British-born Kurdish candidate to stand in next year’s general elections. Nadhim Zahawi of the governing Conservative party is the first and only Kurd to be elected to the British parliament so far. Ibrahim Dogus earlier this month failed in his bid to represent Labour in an internal party election. Atroshi, who is 25 and works in clinical research for the National Health Service, was born and raised in London. His father is from Duhok and is a medical doctor and his mother, from Koya, trained as a pharmaceutical scientist. “I have been a supporter of the Labour party since a young age, around 14, as it represents the interests of ordinary working people,” he told Rudaw. “I am passionate about fairness and equal opportunity for all citizens and not just those at the top.” He hopes to represent the constituency of Surrey Heath where he was one of five shortlisted candidates and he won more than 50 per cent of the vote. But he faces a tough battle next year against Michael Gove, education secretary and who currently represents the constituency for the Conservative party, which governs Britain in coalition with the Liberal Democrats. “I am really looking forward to working with Laween,” said Rodney Bates, a local Labour councillor. “His energy and enthusiasm will be a real asset and he will be a formidable challenge to Michael Gove.” The youthful Atroshi was very much focused on UK issues and not the Middle East, saying he was “not qualified to comment on the politics in the region or neighboring regions as I am not affiliated or connected to any political party there. “However, I do believe that every person, regardless of belief or location in the world, is entitled to the taste of democracy.” His views do not appear to stray from official Labour policy and he wholeheartedly supported Ed Miliband, Labour leader who last year led the drive against military intervention in Syria. When Atroshi was asked about the tens of thousands of civilians killed since the West voted against intervention, he said he believed dialogue in the United Nations was the best way to defuse the Syrian conflict. “Ed Miliband was instrumental in preventing the rush to bomb Syria with cruise missiles and advocated greater use of the United Nations,” he said. Within Britain, he hoped to “amplify the voice of the voiceless as I know the feeling that working, ordinary people are going through given all the cuts and pressure from an out of touch, Tory-led government,” he said. “I want to challenge unfair policies and secure a better future for Britain.” He had engaged with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) through a “humanitarian lens” including healthcare for the poor and sending 60,000 English books with a charity. http://rudaw.net/english/world/29032014
Edited by Brendar, Today, 12:54 AM.
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