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By Zeravan Barwary: The philosophical basis of creating governments and designing political systems is to serve the people. The political party system which manages the competition among different parties with various ideologies is usually conducted for the benefit of the people. Economic and political projects are the main factors which affect the domestic political hegemony….
By Kamal Chomani & Sarkawt Shamsulddin: 2014 will be a challenge for the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) because people are expecting radical reforms from the new cabinet which should have already been formed; and people will not not accept anything less than a different and much improved governance from previous cabinets in which accountability, justice…
By Mufid Abdulla: When the Gorran movement became the second political force following the 21st September 2013 parliamentary elections, the ruling Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) suffered a shock and it has still not come to terms with the changed political landscape in the south of Kurdistan. Previous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) cabinets saw the KDP…
By Kamal Chomani: Twitter: @KamalChomani Masoud Barzani, president of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, delayed a planned visit to the United States in protest at the US listing the KDP and PUK as terrorists. But have not they perpetuated terrorism in the past? In reality this was just an excuse to hide the failures of…
By Michael Rubin: Kurdish history has had no shortage of tragedies, many of which were the result of foreign powers and beyond the control of the Kurdish people. Some tragedies have been self-inflicted, however, most prominent of which was the 1994-1997 civil war. After three years working to build the Kurdistan Regional Government and fill…
By Mufid Abdulla: The mood of the people is pretty grim and it’s easy to see why: it is four months since the parliamentary election on 21st September 2013 and the five biggest parties are still struggling to reach an agreement. Politically it has been one of the most depressing periods I can remember. The…
By Mufid Abdulla: On 18th September 2013 Nawshirwan Mustafa, leader of the Gorran movement, told the crowds at a large rally in front of the Gorran headquarters in Suli city that they would have to earn political power and that it would not just be given to them by the two ruling parties. In the elections…
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…
KT Report: Kawa Ahmed (also known as Kawa Germyani): assassinated at age 32, married since 2012, leaving a widow who is eight months pregnant. He was known for his anti-corruption investigative reports, particularly at a local level. Kawa was born into a poor family, and he lived in a small room with his wife. He…
By Mufid Abdulla: One month on from the September 21st Kurdistan Regional parliamentary elections, voters are still awaiting the formation of a new government. Unfortunately the political parties are not doing enough to meet their expectations. There is still no sign of how the new government will be formed. Gorran – now the second biggest party in…
By Shakhawan Shorash: The uprising of the Kurdish people against Saddam Hussein’s regime in spring 1991, followed by the mass fleeing of Kurds, United Nations (UN) Security Council resolution 688, and the establishment of the safe enclave north of the 36 parallel pushed the Iraqi regime away from the main part of Iraqi Kurdistan. The…
By Mufid Abdulla: Gorran leader Nawshirwan Mustafa today hailed the start of a “new era” in south Kurdistan’s politics, after the electoral high commission confirmed on TV 95% of the parliamentary election results, showing that Nawshirwan’s opposition party has made a stunning leap forward. Gorran is now the second biggest political force, with 446,000 votes compared to…
KT News: Sadi Ahmed Pira, a PUK politburo member, has told the SNN new agency that his supporters are under a lot of pressure in Erbil during the current parliamentary election campaign. He claimed that their posters are being destroyed everywhere and, moreover, that PUK campaigners are facing threats and intimidation from the authorities. “We…
By Abdulla Hawez: The fierce competition between the proxies of the two mainstream Kurdish factions in Syria’s Kurdish areas, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) may sabotage Kurds’ best opportunity to achieve self-rule within Syria in a century. The Democratic Union Party more commonly known by its Kurdish-language acronym (P.Y.D.), a…
