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Child education at a Syrian refugee camp

Written on December 21, 2013 by Editor in Education, KRG, Kurdistan, Refugees, Rojava, Syria, Youth

By Halsho Abdulfatah:

Children huddle against the cold in their refugee school tent and speak with Hashlo

Amoda Primary School is 20 kilometres from Slemani and accommodates 355 Syrian refugee children aged six to fourteen at the Arbot refugee camp. This is a fraction of the total number of children at the camp who need education. The school is managed by the Education Department of Slemani Directorate (EDSD) which has appointed the school’s teachers and chosen the curriculum. It comprises several tents pitched inside an abandoned warehouse, with no playground or proper heating.

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Denise Natali: Kurdistan seems to be following rentier states’ path

Written on December 21, 2013 by Editor in Democracy, Economy, KRG, Kurdistan, Oil

Interview by Mohammed Hussein: Dr. Denise Natali – Senior Research Fellow, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, Washington DC – talks about the problems of Kurdistan-Turkey oil contracts, rentierism and chances that an oil dependent economy can lead to dictatorship. MH: What is wrong with the (Kurdistan-Turkey) oil contract and pipe, and why…

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Another death on a Kurdish building site

Written on December 20, 2013 by Editor in Economy, KRG, Kurd news, Kurdistan

KT News: Hasan Ramazan was an 18 year old construction worker. Yesterday he fell to his death when his escalator collapsed while he was working on an electricity pylon on a building site in the town of Kalar. He was the 83rd person to die this year on building sites in the region of Kurdistan….

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Maliki government is the cancer of Iraq

Written on December 19, 2013 by Editor in Iraq, Maliki, Terrorism

By Mufid Abdulla: No one should be at all surprised by the latest news from the BBC that that level of violence in Iraq has risen back to 2008 levels. Nuri Maliki’s government has produced nothing but corruption and a bloodbath in the centre and south of Iraq. It soon became clear that this administration’s priority…

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‘From hell to jail’: Rojava refugees

Written on December 18, 2013 by Editor in KDP, KRG, Kurdistan, PYD, Refugees, Syria

By Kamal Chomani: Twitter: @KamalChomani A bitterly cold winter menaces some 235,000 Rojava Kurds (Syrian refugees) who sought safety and security in the Kurdistan Region (KR) as violence tore Syria apart. Over 12,000 of them, living in the Kawrgosk Refugee Camp, next door to the Kalak oil refinery, are gradually acclimatising to life under tents…

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Mass trial of Abdullah Ocalan’s lawyers to be observed by UK barristers

Written on December 17, 2013 by Editor in Human rights, Kurd news, Kurdistan, Turkey

Peace in Kurdistan Campaign press release: The seventh hearing in a long-running trial against the legal representatives of Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) who is currently in talks with the Turkish government to resolve the 30-year-old Kurdish –Turkish conflict, will take place tomorrow.

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Closing the gap between higher education and workplaces in Iraqi Kurdistan

Written on December 16, 2013 by Editor in Economy, Education, KRG, Kurdistan

By Rawaz Sulaiman: Having professional qualifications is always vitally important when applying for jobs. Like other parts of the world, the Kurdistan region of Iraq has been making progress in many different ways, as shown by the economic boom. Undoubtedly, this prosperity requires that we have well-qualified people to govern the region effectively. Nowadays, higher education…

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Kurdistan Regional Government: under construction

Written on December 15, 2013 by Editor in KRG, Kurd news, Kurdistan

By Momen Zellmi: The Kurdistan Region parliamentary elections took place on 21st September 2013. According to the Iraqi High Electoral Commission, there were 366 female and 736 male candidates, a total of 2,653,743 people were eligible to vote in the three provinces of Erbil, Sulaymaniyah and Dohuk and 74% of them did so. Three months…

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We must ensure Kawa did not die in vain

Written on December 15, 2013 by Editor in Journalism, KRG, Kurdistan

By Mufid Abdulla: It was late night on 5th December, when one of our KT correspondents called to say that the young journalist, and editor of ‘Rayal’ magazine, Kawa Germyani had been murdered in front of his mother’s home. The details were still unclear but it struck me that this was the fourth journalist and…

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Kawrgosk refugee camp – a photo-story

Written on December 14, 2013 by Editor in Kurdistan, Refugees, Syria

KT Photo-Story: The Kawrgosk Refugee Camp was built on 15 Aug 2013, near an oil refinery in Khabat outside of Hawler. Its 419,000-square-metre capacity was initially intended for 10,000 people but today it shelters just over 12,000 refugees, mostly from Qamishly in Western Kurdistan (North Syria). The residents have been provided with all their basic household equipment…

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Literary Criticism and Literary Critics (part 2)

Written on December 13, 2013 by Editor in Culture

An Interview with Soran Fadhil Ali: Interviewed by Aras Ahmed Mhamd AAM: Plato banished poets from “The Republic”, claiming that poets are “liars” and “imitators”. Do you agree with Plato’s criticism? SFA: Although, at the beginning Plato banished all poets from The Republic, later he changed his idea and thought that we should imitate the works of the…

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How do Kurds join Al Nusrah in Syria – and who are they?

Written on December 12, 2013 by Editor in Islamic Goup, KRG, Kurd news, Kurdistan, Syria

By Momen Zellmi and Harem Karem: Ever since the start of Syria’s proxy war, people have travelled there to help the Syrians in their fight against the Assad regime; some for humanitarian reasons, some sponsored by rogue states, and others for ideological or religious purposes. They include people from all over the world. The Kurdistan…

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Kawa’s ‘killers’ arrested: but who ordered the killing?

Written on December 11, 2013 by Editor in Journalism, KRG, Kurd news, Kurdistan

KT Report: Three days after anti-corruption journalist Kawa Germyani was murdered at his mother’s house, his alleged killers were arrested by the security forces. The investigation is ongoing. According to a report published in ‘Awene’ Newspaper (where Kawa worked as a correspondent), four out of five of the gang have been arrested, all of whom…

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When Mandela Died

Written on December 10, 2013 by Editor in Culture

By Yasin Aziz: When I heard Mandela died The symbol of freedom, the light of Hope has really subsided? When I heard Nelson Mandela died for his enormous soul I uncontrollably cried

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Children of the camp – a photo-story

Written on December 10, 2013 by Harem in KRG, Kurdistan, Refugees, Syria, Youth

KT Photo-Story: Kurdish refugee children from Rojava (North Syria) who are currently living in the Arbat Refugee Camp in Sulaymani province enjoy less media coverage and international support than other Syrian refugees in Turkey, Jordan and the Lebanon. In tough conditions, there is little to protect them from the ravages of disease this winter. Many…

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