By Michael Rubin: Not since the second decade of the twentieth century has the Kurdish dream of independence appeared so attainable. Saddam Hussein is gone, and Kurdish oil has earned billions of dollars. The Syrian civil war has enabled Salih Muslim’s Democratic Union Party to consolidate control over much of Syrian Kurdistan. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s…
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The leadership crises in Kurdish political parties
By Kamal Chomani: Almost all Kurdish political parties in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq are really in need of a change in their leadership: some because of their leaders’ health; but most because they have been leading their parties for ages, preventing other political figures from emerging. The main leaders are still the ones we…
The scenarios of the KRG Presidential Elections
By Butan Amedi: On April 18th, 2013, the President of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), Mr Masoud Barzani, announced that the presidential and parliamentary elections of the KRG will be held on September 21st, 2013. These elections will be the second competitive ones held in the region since the liberation of Iraq in 2003. The question…
Kurdish Democracy’s biggest test yet
By Shwan Zulal: Kurdistan Region president, Massoud Barzani, has set the date for the next Kurdish general election at 21 September 2013. Both parliamentary and presidential elections will be held on that date. The candidates running for president have not put their names forward yet, apart from one independent. On the parliamentary front, it is…
Is Barzani really a nationalist? Redux
By Michael Rubin: My October 22, 2012 column “Is Masud Barzani Really a Nationalist?” sparked debate among Kurdish writers in a number of publications. Most prominently, Delovan Barwari, president of the American Kurdish Council, responded with an Ekurd.net essay which substituted personal disparagement for factual defense of Masud Barzani’s decades-long record as leader of the…
