KT News and Comment: Five members of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) were yesterday sentenced to two years in jail each for participating in the burning of the Kurdistan Islamic Union’s (KIU) offices in Zakho last year. The same Dohuk court hearing found another 27 KDP members not guilty and released them. These sentences are the…
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Category Archives: KIU
Kurdistan Region Opposition leaders end their summit
KT News and Comment: A summit meeting in Erbil of the three opposition leaders – of Gorran, the Kurdistan Islamic Union (KIU) and Islamic League – was concluded today. This meeting was long overdue and it had been delayed because of the Gorran leaders’ recent overtures to the ruling Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). Bookmark…
Here’s a way to give power to the people
News and Comment by The Kurdistan Tribune: Kurdish people’s perception of politicians is at a low ebb. This is because politicians have for years promised so much but delivered so little. Some, such as Talabani and Barzani, have enjoyed power since the 1960s. Bookmark on Delicious Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Tweet about it…
2011: Massive political and social energies, no fundamental changes
By Kawa Hassan: 2011 has been an extraordinary year in Kurdish politics. Not because it was the year of revolution, but rather because it was the year of the unleashing of social-political energies that undoubtedly will leave its marks on developments in 2012 and thereafter. To begin with, Jan 6 was an extraordinary day as…
Should the KIU be held responsible for the violence in Badinan?
By Dr Abdul Wahed Jalal: (Academy of Islamic Studies, Department of Islamic Political Science, University Malaya): With the collapse of many Arab dictatorships and the rise of Islamist parties in the Arab world, speculation has turned to whether the KIU will dominate the Kurdish Regional Authority’s political landscape. As the third largest, most popular, and most effective…
