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Within 25 years or less, Kurds may lose majority in Iraqi ...
[KurdNet News ekurd.net] Political dangers: establishing Arabic political organizations changing the balance of voting in the elections in disfavor of the Kurds.
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August 18, 2010
Within 25 years or less, Kurds may lose majority in Iraqi ...
[KurdNet News ekurd.net] Political dangers: establishing Arabic political organizations changing the balance of voting in the elections in disfavor of the Kurds.
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August 18, 2010
Pajamas Media » Is Turkey Using Chemical Weapons Against the Kurds?
[Pajamas Media] Die Tageszeitung reports it has also obtained other autopsy photographs of six Kurds killed in similar circumstances in Åžirnak province in south-eastern Anatolia. Those pictures currently are being analyzed for their authenticity by the University Hospital in Hamburg.
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Pajamas Media » Is Turkey Using Chemical Weapons Against the Kurds?
[Pajamas Media] Die Tageszeitung reports it has also obtained other autopsy photographs of six Kurds killed in similar circumstances in Åžirnak province in south-eastern Anatolia. Those pictures currently are being analyzed for their authenticity by the University Hospital in Hamburg.
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July 02, 2010
Turks seek more trade with Iraqi Kurds despite tensions - Hurriyet ...
[Hurriyet Dailynews] Despite the tensions, Turkish entrepreneurs have been keen to do business in northern Iraq, taking advantage of relative peace in the region and its proximity to Turkey. More than 500 businessmen applied to go to northern Iraq, but the capacity is limited to 200.
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Posted at 04:06 PM
Anatolian news agency publishes disinformation for international ...
[Support Kurds in Syria] International news agencies are invited to look beyond the smoke screen that has been thrown up by this Turkish news agency, to see that there is a political programme aimed at ethnically cleansing Kurds from their ancient homelands, and that there is collusion in this persecution between the governments of Turkey and Syria, in co-operation with Iran.
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May 19, 2010
Lebanon news - NOW Lebanon - Kurds Stage Strike in Iran to Protest ...
[NOW Lebanon] Iran’s Kurds, mostly Sunni Muslims, are a minority in a mainly Shiite country, and they say the government discriminates against them. Tehran’s sensitivity about the Kurds and other ethnic groups has only increased over the past year, as Iran’s leaders have faced their most serious political challenge since the Islamic Revolution, with tens of thousands of Iranians protesting a presidential election they declared fraudulent.
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Lebanon news - NOW Lebanon - Kurds Stage Strike in Iran to Protest ...
[NOW Lebanon] Iran’s Kurds, mostly Sunni Muslims, are a minority in a mainly Shiite country, and they say the government discriminates against them. Tehran’s sensitivity about the Kurds and other ethnic groups has only increased over the past year, as Iran’s leaders have faced their most serious political challenge since the Islamic Revolution, with tens of thousands of Iranians protesting a presidential election they declared fraudulent.
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Iraqiyya and the Kurds: Years of tension barred a coalition - The ...
[The Majlis] The Kurds are often branded as potential kingmakers in Iraq, and have to decide which list they will support: the largely Sunni-supported Iraqi National Movement (Iraqiyya) of former prime minister Iyad Allawi, or the State of Law coalition headed by Shi'ite prime minister Nouri al-Maliki.
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Iraqiyya and the Kurds: Years of tension barred a coalition - The ...
[The Majlis] The Kurds are often branded as potential kingmakers in Iraq, and have to decide which list they will support: the largely Sunni-supported Iraqi National Movement (Iraqiyya) of former prime minister Iyad Allawi, or the State of Law coalition headed by Shi'ite prime minister Nouri al-Maliki.
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April 07, 2010
Thousands of Kurds rally in Turkey as PKK-rebel envoys detained
[KurdNet News ekurd.net] A small group of unarmed Kurdish rebels in combat dress crossed into Turkey from northern Iraq on Monday in a show of support for peace with the Turkish government. Thirty-four Kurds walked across the Iraqi-Turkish Habur border gate, where they were immediately detained by paramilitary police and moved to the headquarters of a nearby military battalion for questioning by four prosecutors, the state-run Anatolia news agency reported.
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World Threats » Blog Archive » MEK Not Involved in Oppression of ...
[World Threats] One of the main arguments against the Mujahideen-e-Khalq, the Iranian opposition group currently listed as a “terrorist group” in the U.S., is that they were used by Saddam Hussein to crush rebellions by the Kurds and Shiites.
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March 15, 2010
An Oscar for America's Hubris | Mostly Water
[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news] After the U.S. invasion Galbraith was an active adviser on the writing of Iraq’s constitution and lobbied to include language that gave the Kurds control over the oil in their region. Galbraith was at the time advising a Norwegian company that secured oil rights from those same Kurds, and he, in turn, received 5 percent of one of the most promising oil fields, worth an estimated $100 million.
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As long as Iraq abides by constitution we're Iraqis - Kurdistan ...
[ZiiBook | Russia | Top News] But unfortunately the partnership between the Kurds and the Arabs has not been working, they have not allowed for the opportunity for this partnership to work since the establishment of the Iraqi state at that time, until 1991 when the Kurdish people had their glorious uprising and also the political and international equations and the interest of the international community has changed. Since the uprising in 1991, the situation has changed and the Kurds have a happy opportunity to have their own space and the ability to govern themselves.
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Posted at 03:36 PM
November 20, 2009
Adviser to Iraq Constitution Will Reap Oil Profits (Andymatic.com)
[Andymatic] Now Mr. Galbraith, 58, son of the renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith, stands to earn perhaps a hundred million or more dollars as a result of his closeness to the Kurds, his relations with a Norwegian oil company and constitutional provisions he helped the Kurds extract.
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November 13, 2009
The Angry Arab News Service » Peter Galbraith: friend of the Kurds ...
[The Angry Arab News Service] The Angry Arab News Service. A source on politics, war, the middle east, arabic poetry, and art by As'ad Abukhalil.
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War in Context - U.S. adviser to Kurds stands to reap oil profits
[War in Context] Galbraith, 58, son of the renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith, stands to earn perhaps a hundred million or more dollars as a result of his closeness to the Kurds, his relations with a Norwegian oil company and constitutional provisions he helped the Kurds extract.
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War in Context - U.S. adviser to Kurds stands to reap oil profits
[War in Context] Galbraith, 58, son of the renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith, stands to earn perhaps a hundred million or more dollars as a result of his closeness to the Kurds, his relations with a Norwegian oil company and constitutional provisions he helped the Kurds extract.
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November 11, 2009
Al-Darb Diya: HRW: Kurds harming Iraq's minorities in north
[Al-Darb Diya] In a report titled "On vulnerable ground: violence against minority communities in Nineveh province's disputed territories," the group said the area's ruling Kurds risk creating "a full-blown human rights catastrophe" for small communities that have lived there through the ages.
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Al-Darb Diya: HRW: Kurds harming Iraq's minorities in north
[Al-Darb Diya] In a report titled "On vulnerable ground: violence against minority communities in Nineveh province's disputed territories," the group said the area's ruling Kurds risk creating "a full-blown human rights catastrophe" for small communities that have lived there through the ages.
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Tensions with Kurds in Iraq « The Lift - Legal Issues in the Fight ...
[The Lift - Legal Issues in the Fight against Terrorism] The report describes how the Kurdish government has sought to repress minorities, subsume the identity of Shabaks and Yazidis into that of Kurds and sow rifts within the groups with bribes and patronage while suppressing dissent through .
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Posted at 03:33 PM
Tensions with Kurds in Iraq « The Lift - Legal Issues in the Fight ...
[The Lift - Legal Issues in the Fight against Terrorism] The report describes how the Kurdish government has sought to repress minorities, subsume the identity of Shabaks and Yazidis into that of Kurds and sow rifts within the groups with bribes and patronage while suppressing dissent through .
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