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By Aras Ahmed Mhamad: The election campaign for the Iraqi Parliamentary and Kurdistan region Provincial Elections started on April Fool’s Day, what an ideal date for the campaign! Campaigning is a pillar in the process of voting, which automatically creates clashes and feuds especially as these days people have easy access to various types of…
By Evin Cheikosman: Overview Kirkuk is a city in Iraq that has been a heated topic for internal territorial disputes, and the source for bitter relations amongst its old and new inhabitants, for a very long time. Since the 1920s, when Britain created the country of Iraq; Kurds, Sunni Arabs, Turkmens, Chaldeans, Assyrians, and other minorities…
By Evin Cheikosman: Oil. The resource curse that a nation either benefits or suffers from. The resource that attracts many friends, a lot more foes, opens up opportunities to grow, and irritates relations with the envious. Iraq, a country known not only for its growing sectarian and civil rivalries, but also for its oil, has…
By Sarkawt Shamsulddin: The mosaic of Iraqi society has shaped the election campaigns. The way each political party manages the campaign can tell us what potentiality each party has or where they look for votes. The ruling parties at national and local level abuse their public positions, money, and security forces to gain more votes….
By Kamal Chomani: Twitter: @KamalChomani Since 2006 more than 250 journalists and academics have been killed in Iraq; their blood has gone for free. It was only a week ago that Iraq’s Premier, Nouri Al-Maliki, woke up and theorized an authoritarian theory for killing a journalist; blood for blood. Maliki has been making propaganda for…
By Zeravan Barwary: In the new world system, the state is the major actor which is measurable and accountable in both its domestic and external policy to its citizens within its borders, and to the international community outside them. According to international standards, there are some failed states, and others are called successful states. Failed…
By Mufid Abdulla: Erbil’s dispute with Baghdad, mainly over oil and gas, has developed to the point where the federal government of Nuri Maliki is displaying a colonialist attitude towards the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and the people of the south of Kurdistan. It was Barzani and Talabani’s idea for us to be part of…
By Rauf Naqishbendi: A tumultuous cloud hovering over the Islamic world is ominously unprecedented. Sectarian contention between Shiite and Sunni Muslims is on its way to consuming the entire Middle East with calamitous bloodshed and conflagrations. Clashing groups who advocate to this mishap are claiming their righteousness on the light of divine principles, while in realty…
By Karen Dabrowska: Veteran overland tour operator Geoff Hann promoted travel to Kurdistan at this year’s Destinations travel show held in London. When asked whether the development of Iraqi Kurdistan as a tourist destination was realistic, Hann replied: “If they supply what they say they will supply, if the hotels and services are reasonably priced.”…
KT News A Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) delegation led by prime minister Nechirvan Barzani has gone to Baghdad today to discuss the budget crisis and oil dispute. This week the Iraq central government, led by prime minister Nuri Maliki, took steps to counter the developing oil links between the KRG and Turkey. Iraqi Kurdish ministers…
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) prime minister Nechirvan Barzani and Iraq energy minister Hussain Shahristani yesterday reached an agreement in Baghdad that oil from the Kurdistan region will be exported through the Iraq State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO), with revenues distributed according to the agreed annual budget share. The Iraqi government will decide on the…
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…
By Zana Khasraw Gul, Open Democracy: On September 29, a rare attack occurred in Arbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), in which the headquarters of the Kurdistan security forces (Asayish) were targeted. The KRG has brought about rapid economic development in Iraqi Kurdistan, a region of Iraq that enjoys peace and security and is nothing…
By Dr. M. Koohzad: A few retired and retarded American generals tell us, mainly on the 24-hour news channels, that possessing chemical weapons is illegal. This is true, according to the Geneva Convention of 1925. But, countries that have not signed this document are not obligated to follow the law. The US did not sign…
By Dr Aland Mizell: With the PKK–Turkish government peace process once more sadly hanging by a thread, the Turkish media and especially the Gülenist media have already launched a pre–emptive blame game. We already know for a fact that Gülen and his followers never wanted the Turkish government to talk to the PKK or to…
