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| | Iraqi Kurdistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Kurdistan Region was originally established in 1970 as the Kurdish Autonomous Region following the agreement of an Autonomy Accord between the government of Iraq and leaders of the Iraqi Kurdish community. | | | In the wake of the ratification of the Iraqi constitution in October 2005, Iraqi Kurdistan reconstitutes itself as a Region under the new constitutional framework. | | | As a result of the vast parade of peoples who have come to Kurdistan, it is safe to say that the Kurds are a combination of indigenous peoples who were living in the Zagros Mountains and numerous other invaders and migrants. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Kurdistan
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| | Kurdistan - definition of Kurdistan in Encyclopedia |
| | The term "Kurdistan" could also be referred to the northern autonomous portion of Iraq, though Iraq has never officially recognized it. | | | This was in accord with acts of Ankara government such as sending a team of instructors to train the Kurdish rebels who were then fighting against British troops under the banner of "Kingdom of Kurdistan". | | | Kurds and the Kurdistans - A report on the languages, cultures and political ideas of Kurds in Iraq, Turkey, Syria and Iran (http://www.globalpolitician.com/articles.asp?ID=185) |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Kurdistan
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| | Kurdistan shall survive and the sadistic monsters who preach hatred and fatwa will be guests at the garbage of history like their master, Saddam Hussein. | | | The 7 million Kurdish people in the Iraqi part of Kurdistan were and still are the staunchest ally of America and America's forces in the region. | | | Barzani Warns Iraq's Neighbors Not to Interfere in the affairs and the sacred issue of the Kurdistan City of Kirkuk. |
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http://www.ekurd.org
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| | The Cia In Kurdistan |
| | Fed a steady diet of fantasy mush in which Arabs and Muslims are inexorably tagged as irrational, fanatical terrorists and in which their American, Israeli and other tormentors are relentlessly portrayed as harbingers of a democratic civilization under siege in the areas they seek to control. | | | The CIA approved or blithely ignored the subsequent repression in that part of Kurdistan, It has been made painfully obvious to Kurds that they are to be denied self-determination. | | | CIA Director John Deutch went on the record recently as opposing freedom for Kurdistan because "you need to take territory from Iran, Turkey and Syria to put together such a region", obscuring the fact that these "territories" were wrenched away from the Kurdish homeland and "awarded" to others to begin with. |
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http://www.zmag.org/zmag/articles/dec96kurdi.htm
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| | Kurds |
| | The explanation of the international society's reluctance to support the establishment of a Kurdistan, must be seen on the background of the existing regional instability, the importance of the area and the fact that it would effects too many states. | | | In 1991, the international society could have taken the necessary steps to form a Kurdistan in northern Iraq, but actions of this kind would never have been accepted by NATO allied Turkey. | | | The region came back under Iraqi control after that some Kurdish chiefs allied with Saddam Hussayn, the president of Iraq. |
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http://i-cias.com/e.o/kurds.htm
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| | Additional information on Kurdistan can also be located in the relevant country files for the nations among which Kurdish populations are distributed: Iraq, Iran, and Turkey. |
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http://faculty.winthrop.edu/haynese/mlas/kurdista.html
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| | Kurdistan - Turkey |
| | The initiation of armed insurrection by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (Partiya Karkere Kurdistan--PKK) in 1984, along with the increasing international media interest in the Kurds of Iraq beginning in the mid-1980s, compelled some members of Turkey's political elite to question government policy toward the country's Kurdish population. | | | In an interview published on 03 September 2004, Erdogan reiterated: “The Turkish government is gradually loosing patience as America continues avoiding taking military actions against the Kurd rebels in Turkey who are presently based in Northern Iraq.” He said the recent remarks of US National Security Advisor, Condoleeza Rice on the issue were not convincing. | | | Rice had earlier said the US is trying to contain the Kurdistan Workers Party, PKK through non-military means. |
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http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/kurdistan-turkey.htm
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| | Kurdistan |
| | Plundering of houses, executions and arrests of the PUK members and activists of the Iraqi opposition took place in Kurdistan. | | | Proceedings of the first Iraqi reconstruction Exhibit and Conference, which has been held in Erbil province in Kurdistan region have been launched. | | | In Iraq, there are 4 million Kurds, who run their own administration. |
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http://www.unpo.org/member.php?arg=34
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| | Iraqi Kurdistan |
| | Even Arabs are moving in, many of them professionals seeking escape from the violence and crime that afflict many parts of the south. | | | The people of Kurdistan are very skeptical about those trivial gains. | | | Critics say party membership is the only way for advancement in Kurdistan. |
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http://iraqikurdistan.blogspot.com
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| | Kurdistan Democratic Party-Iraq |
| | There are also some followers of mainstream Shiitem Islam among the Kurds, particularly in and around the cities of Kirmanshah, to Hamadan and Bijar in southern and eastern Kurdistan and the Khurasan. | | | In the far southern Kurdistan, both in Iraq and Iran, the Gurani dialect is spoken by about 3 million Kurds. | | | Like the medieval Ayyubids, however, the Zands set up their capital and kingdom outside Kurdistan, and pursued no policies aimed at unification of the Kurdish nation. |
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http://www.knn.u-net.com/kurd4.htm
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| | Kurdistan Observer |
| | Sensing that they are losing the war in Arab Iraq, the Bush peole are quickly losing all their principles and going for a quick writing of a consitution for the phony country of Iraq, as part of their exit strategy. | | | "His Excellency [al Sistani] will not allow Kirkuk to be included in Kurdistan since it belongs to all Iraqis regardless of their national, religious and confessional background", said the Iraq news agency, quoting a press release from Sistani's office. | | | A Sunni Arab delegation arrived yesterday in Southern Kurdistan to discuss issues related to the Iraqi constitution. |
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http://home.cogeco.ca/~kurdistanobserver/news.html
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| | The New Yorker: Fact |
| | In 1984, the Kurdistan Workers Party, or P.K.K., initiated a campaign of separatist violence in Turkey that lasted fifteen years; more than thirty thousand people, most of them Kurds, were killed. | | | In a series of interviews in Europe, the Middle East, and the United States, officials told me that by the end of last year Israel had concluded that the Bush Administration would not be able to bring stability or democracy to Iraq, and that Israel needed other options. | | | Given that a presence in Kurdistan would give Israel a way to monitor the Iranian nuclear effort, he said, “it would be negligent for the Israelis not to be there.” |
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http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content?040628fa_fact
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| | Kurdistan News - Media Monitoring Service by EIN News |
| | Police suspected the hand of the rebel Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which is fighting for an ethnic homeland in southeast Turkey, Anatolian... | | | His statement came after leaders of the Kurdistan Alliance, a Sunni Arab bloc and the Iraqi List of secular Shia led by... | | | reports said a meeting was held [on March 2] in the Baghdad office of Kurdistan Regional President Mas'ud Barzani, gathering all major political blocs except the United Iraqi Alliance... |
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http://www.einnews.com/iraq/newsfeed-Kurdistan
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| | University of Silémanي (Sulaimanya), Southern Kurdistan (Kurdistan in Iraq) | | | University of Dohuk, Southern Kurdistan (Kurdistan in Iraq) | | | Kurd, Kurdistan, Kurdistan Democratic Party-Iraq, KDP, barzani, kurd, north iraq, |
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http://www.kdp.pp.se/worldpress
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| | Kurdistan |
| | Britain has accused Iran of responsibility for explosions which have caused the deaths of all eight UK soldiers killed in Iraq this year. | | | Anyway i thought i would post this picture as when i saw it on Aliraqi.com, it made my day even if it did upset some of our arab compatriots. | | | Free Kurdistan-'a fresh idea'- from the National review |
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http://sulaimaniya.blogspot.com
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| | I would like to think of this blog as a phoenix and that when the time is right (when it is needed again) KBU will arise from the ashes. | | | In Kurdistan we have been fighting this thinking for centuries, and believe me we are very tired." | | | As a commentator posted:"His blog allows thoughtful insights into the problems we face today in this world". |
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http://kurdistanblog.blogspot.com
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| | Technorati Tag: kurdistan |
| | The court of Silêmanî condemned seven men for the assassination of Kemalê Sor aka Kemal Shahin, a former member of the PKK, who fled the Party and... | | | This page shows blog posts, photos, and links that have been tagged kurdistan. | | | February 21, 2006 at 2:41 am · Filed under Mideast Peace, Politics & Society First thing we have to start out with... |
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http://www.technorati.com/tag/kurdistan
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| | Iran: Security Forces Kill Kurdish Protestors (Human Rights Watch, 11-8-2005) |
| | The Iranian government needs to conduct a full and impartial investigation into the violent response to the recent protests in Kurdistan. | | | Officials who are responsible for any excessive use of lethal force must be prosecuted. | | | Protestors demanded that the government apprehend Qaderi's killers and put them on trial. |
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http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/08/11/iran11619.htm
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| | Kurdistan Observer |
| | This is making a mockery out of any Human Rights or War of Liberation action and defies any and all respect for Human dignity and those who believe in Freedom and Liberty for all peoples. | | | Turks Out Of Kurdistan Now or face the consequences. | | | The Red line:Turkey and Israel must not enter Iraqi Kurdistan |
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http://home.cogeco.ca/~dbonni1/22-3-03-opinion-steve-turk-out-of-kurdistan.html
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| | DozaMe.org - Transmitting The Kurdish Cause |
| | NEWSDESK, Dec 6 (DozaMe.org) - A 22-year-old Kurd named Puya Ibrahim Abadi under detention in the city of Sine in eastern Kurdistan was tortured to death on Dec. 5 by Iranian security forces, the Kurdish news agency ANF reports. | | | NEWSDESK, Dec 4 (DozaMe.org) - The Turkish Chief of Staff claimed in a statement on Sunday that no JITEM agent carrying an Iraqi Turkmen Front ID card had been caught in the city of Kirkuk in southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq), according to the Kurdish news agency ANF. | | | NEWSDESK, Dec 8 (DozaMe.org) - The president of the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG), the KDP-leader Massoud Barzani, has been invited to Turkey and plans to make his trip on Dec. 12, sources in southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq) said. |
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http://www.dozame.org
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| | Washingtonpost.com: Terrorism Report |
| | The 1920 Treaty of Sevres, which created the modern states of Iraq, Syria and Kuwait, was to have included the possibility of a Kurdish state in the region. | | | The PKK believes any independent Kurdish state should be a homeland for all Kurds. | | | From 1994-98, two Iraqi Kurd factions – the Kurdistan Democratic Party, led by Massoud Barzani, and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, led by Jalal Talabani &; fought a bloody war for power over northern Iraq. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/daily/feb99/kurdprofile.htm
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| | BBC NEWS Middle East Iraqi Kurdistan a world away from war |
| | The Kurds have ruled themselves in northern Iraq since the aftermath of the Gulf war of 1991, when a "safe haven" was created to protect them from Saddam Hussein. | | | Businessmen, scared away from other parts of Iraq, are coming to Kurdistan instead, and helping its economy to take off. | | | The airport was built on a former military base once used by Saddam Hussein's regime to bomb the Kurds of Halabja. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4145110.stm
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| | Kurd and Kurdistan KurdishMedia.com United Kurdish Voice |
| | Kani Yilmaz and his associate assassinated in Sulemani, Kurdistan | | | Post-World War I diplomat to Iraq described obstacles similar to today's | | | Hajim Alhasani: the Kurdish leadership emphasized that they made their choice — no Kurdistan, but participation in Iraq |
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http://www.kurdmedia.com
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| | PKK Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan & PKK Kurdistan Workers' Party & PKK Kürdistan İşçi Partisi |
| | PKK Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan & PKK Kurdistan Workers' Party & PKK Kürdistan İşçi Partisi | | | PKK PKK PKK Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan & PKK Kurdistan Workers' Party PKK PKK PKK Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan & PKK Kurdistan Workers' Party | | | PKK PKK PKK PKK Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan & PKK Kurdistan Workers' BI RÊBER APO BER BI AZADIYÊ.... |
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http://www.pkk.org
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| | Iraq |
| | Party abbreviations: PDK = Partiya Demokrata Kurdistane (Kurdistan Democratic Party [KDP], Kurdish nationalist, est.1946); PUK = Yaketi Nishtimani Kurdistan (Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Kurdish nationalist, social-democratic, est.Jun 1975) | | | 4 Jul 1992 Kurdistan Regional Government formed (not recognized by Iraq). | | | Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, which moves to Sulaymaniyah. |
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http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Iraq.htm
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| | there were numerous revolts against Baghdad, mainly by Mullah Mustafa Barzani, the famous leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iraq (KDP). | | | After the shia revolution the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) rebelled after demands for autonomy were refused by Tehran. | | | The Kurds are people of Indo-European origin who live mainly in the mountains and uplands where Turkey, Iraq, and Iran meet, in an area known as "Kurdistan" for hundreds of years. |
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http://www.cool.mb.ca/~kakel/kurds.html
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| | Because as he killed thousands innocent people and destroyed thousands of villages in Kurdistan he also caused thousands of children to be homeless and orphen. | | | During the rule of Saddam's Regime he destroyed the country in such a way that couldn't be repaired easily. | | | Every year 100s of children gets killed in Kurdistan because of the mines. |
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http://kurdistanyouth.blogspot.com
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| | Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) |
| | At a PKK Congress in January 2000, members supported Ocalan’s initiative and claimed the group now would use only political means to achieve its public goal of improved rights for Kurds in Turkey. | | | As part of its fight against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), the Government forcibly displaced noncombatants, failed to resolve extrajudicial killings, tortured civilians, and abridged freedom of expression. | | | Amended Designation of Kurdistan Freedom and Democracy Congress as a Foreign Terrorist Organization, Federal Register, January 13, 2004. |
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http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/pkk.htm
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| | Kurdistan Recognizes the Armenian Genocide |
| | Imposed colonialist policies have set these people against the Kurdish people and against each other, have created clashes and forced deportations and exiles. | | | The Turkish State regime, from history to our days, has worked against the peoples, as if a guilty party, and with her committed genocides has changed the demographics of Anatolia causing the demise of many cultures-civilizations. | | | I call upon the world public opinion to become aware of this Turkish State policies and vehemently oppose it. |
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http://www.cilicia.com/armo10i_kurdistan.html
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| | Welcome to Kurdistan - by Aaron Glantz |
| | "Welcome to Kurdistan," the police officer said, handing me the paper. | | | If I travel to Suleymania or Halabja, where the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) is in control, I will need to register with their state security police. | | | Now he was returning to Kurdistan to work for an American company called U.I. building a hospital in the city of his birth. |
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http://www.antiwar.com/glantz?articleid=4481
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| | KRM - Kurdistan Referendum Movement |
| | In North, Kurdistan comes first, Iraq comes second | | | Every kurd should have a voice in determining the political future of Kurdistan" | | | It is this unity and unanimity of dividing posts, powers and privileges that has served us so wondrously for 15 years, that transformed Kurdistan into the land of peace and prosperity, built our civil democratic institutions and created a generation of scientists and specialists, experts and entrepreneurs, writers and artists, diplomats and technocrats. |
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http://www.kurdistanreferendum.org
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| | Kurdish Human Rights Project |
| | HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS AGAINST KURDS IN TURKEY - KHRP Report Presented at OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, October 2004, Warsaw | | | Anfal and Halabja Remembrance Day — 13 March 2005 — 2-5pm - London KHRP to speak at 17th annual remembrance of Anfal and Halabja, to commemorate the victims of the ethnic cleansing campaigns committed against the Kurds by the Iraqi regime | | | KHRP and KWP Launch 'Charter for the Rights and Freedoms of Women in the Kurdish Regions and Diaspora' - Report on the Charter's launch at the UK House of Lords (London, June 2004) and Kurdistan National Assembly (Erbil, July 2004) |
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http://www.khrp.org
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| | Kingdom of Kurdistan - encyclopedia article about Kingdom of Kurdistan. |
| | Kurdistan is both the name of a geographic region and a cultural region in the Middle East named after the Kurds, a large ethnic group living in parts of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Armenia, and Syria. | | | The first established in northern Iraq in 1922 by Shaykh Mahmud of Sulaymaniya and dissolved in 1924 by the British. | | | This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. |
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http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Kingdom+of+Kurdistan
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| | The Turkish Crime of our Century - The Kurdish Drama |
| | The remaining area of Kurdistan is occupied by Iraq, Iran and a small part by Syria. | | | The Mongolian attacks of the beginning of the l3th century, dissolved the kurdish states. | | | The only country which, not only does not recognise any human right to the Kurds, but also forbids them to speak their own language, to sing their songs, to have newspapers, books, schools, culture, is Turkey. |
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http://imia.cc.duth.gr/turkey/kurd.e.html
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| | American Kurdish Information Network (AKIN) |
| | Kurdish father Omar and his infant son, victims of Saddam Hussein’s poison gas attack on Halapja, Kurdistan, March 16, 1988 | | | New Book: The Kurds, A People in Search of Their Homeland, by Kevin McKiernan | | | As Kurdish children of this blighted and merciless past, we are fighting to restore justice to our ancestral land, free the largest enslaved people of our times, and build a Kurdistan on the foundation of human, civil, and national rights for all the diverse peoples within it. |
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http://www.kurdistan.org
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| | Rahbar Jalal Mamash in memoriam |
| | After the Gulf War Rahbar Jalal founded with his friends "Save the Kurdistan's Children" help organization, which now e.g. | | | His works are his memories of the time he spent in Kurdistan. | | | He has also founded The National Peace and Solidarity Association of Kurdistan, which convenes artists and intellectuals from different countries to consider and discuss the initiatives of unity. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/in/kurdistanherald
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| | This area which constitutes more than half of the total area of Iraqi Kurdistan is now under the control of Kurdistan Regional Government. | | | The remaining population inhabits the areas under the control of Iraqi government. | | | In these governorates the five million Kurdish population is dispersed, of which 2/3 inhabit the former three provinces. |
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http://www.kdp-ankara.org.tr/kurdland.html
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| | Kurdistan, the land of the Kurds, is spread among several modern states: northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, northeastern Syria, southeastern Turkey, and small parts of Armenia. | | | The Kurdish people compose one of the ancient nations of the Middle East. | | | In fact, MESA’s most recent membership directory indicates that there is just one expert on Kurdish issues versus fifteen on the Palestinians, who are far fewer in number but nonetheless have an international political status similar to that of the Kurds. |
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http://www.xs4all.nl/~tank/kurdish/htdocs/announce/KSF.html
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| | BBC NEWS World Middle East Kurdistan diary: Halabja |
| | We are Kurdish, this is Kurdistan and it has been for centuries. | | | Halabja is the Kurdish town where Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons in an effort to crush opponents. | | | If anyone has earned the right to make their voices heard on the future of Kurdistan it is the people of Halabja. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3421717.stm
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| | Patriotic Union of Kurdistan |
| | President Bush Meets with President Barzani of Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq | | | British Prime Minister and Iraqi President hold a news conference. | | | Text of President Jalal Talabani& speech at the opening session of the Kurdistan National Assembly, Arbil, June, 4th, 2005 |
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http://www.puk.org
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| | KOMALAY HIWAI KURDISTAN |
| | Pictures and Cities of Kurdistan - Kurdistan Cities | | | Kurdistan Information -Information about Kurdistan in Swedish and Kurdish | | | The National Flag of Kurdistan - The National Flag of Kurdistan |
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http://www.fortunecity.se/kista/appel/144
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| | Kurdistan Free discussion |
| | Because as a human, we're inclined to seek out and belong to those who are like us. | | | Because as a human, we're inclined to seek out and belong to those who are | | | Please be respectful to interlocutors, don`t use oath, don`t abuse capital letters, don`t publish advertising and also materials violate netiquette. |
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http://qaix.com/coldfusion/317-125-kurdistan-read.shtml
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| | International Friends of Kurdistan is an organisation which works to improve the situation of Kurdish people both in their homeland and in exile and to increase the world community's knowledge of the Kurdish issue which is of such importance to the whole of humanity. | | | We have members of all nationalities in countries around the globe who hold public meetings and seminars, and organise campaigns to support the Kurds in every way possible. | | | International Friends of Kurdistan is equally interested in every part of Kurdistan, every community that lives within Kurdistan and Kurdish exiled communities throughout the world. |
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http://international-friends-of-kurdistan.s5.com
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| | Welcome to Kurdistan |
| | The Kurdistan National Network is an independent entity and has no ties to any political organisations. | | | It is intended to bring you the latest news concerning the Kurds and Kurdistan. |
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http://www.knn.u-net.com
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| | Kurdistan (Region) Newspapers : Newspapers from Kurdistan (Region) : Kurdistan (Region) News |
| | Kurdistan (Region) newspapers for information on local issues, politics, events, celebrations, people and business. | | | Please EMAIL US if you know of any new online newspapers or those on our lists where the address has changed. | | | Kurdistan (Region) Newspapers : Newspapers from Kurdistan (Region) : Kurdistan (Region) News |
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http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/kurdistan.htm
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| | KDC Welcome |
| | U.S. Department of Commerce Report Recommends Kurdistan as Regional Gateway for Investing in Iraq | | | In part due to its semi-autonomous status since the early 1990s, the Kurdistan region boasts of a well-organized regional government and relatively stable economy, making it home to a host of early entrant investors, some of whom will be poised for expansion into Central and Southern Iraq once the security environment improves." | | | Kurdistan Development Corporation (KDC), a partnership with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), is an investment holdings and trading company with offices in London, Berlin and Erbil, Kurdistan. |
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http://www.kurdistancorporation.com
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