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Kurdistan’s Referendum: Why Turnout Matters

Posted on December 19, 2018 8:54 am

Kurdistan’s Referendum: Why Turnout Matters Davan Yahya Khalil explores what a yes vote might mean...

Iraq is failing – It’s time to cut loose

Posted on December 20, 2018 4:26 am

As the violent protests in Iraq continue, cracked down on by government forces, it seems...

KURDISTAN IS STABLE FOR NOW, WHICH IS BEING IGNORED BY THOSE ASKING TO DELAY ELECTIONS

Posted on December 20, 2018 4:33 am

Kurdistan owes it to future generations to go ahead as planned on September 30. It...

KURDISTAN MUST TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR ITS OWN INDEPENDENCE

Posted on December 20, 2018 4:38 am

Kurdistan must take responsibility for its own independence. It has been a year since Kurdistan’s...

What will future generations think of us if we do not achieve independence? Will they think that we did not have the opportunity, or that we squandered it when it was there

Posted on December 20, 2018 4:44 am

Kurdistan has long been a land of opportunity in both material and social respects, yet...

The referendum’s political aftermath created almost as many shockwaves within Kurdistan as the military impact

Posted on December 20, 2018 4:47 am

It has been more than a year since Kurdistan’s referendum on independence. It was the...

It is a mark of prestige, and of Kurdistan’s importance within the Middle East, that two of its key politicians have been invited to speak there

Posted on December 20, 2018 4:57 am

Masrour Barzani and Nechirvan Barzani of the Kurdistan Regional Government have travelled this week to...

If this produces true civil war, then Iran is likely to be the only side to benefit

Posted on December 20, 2018 5:12 am

The attack on Kurdistan looks like a disaster for the Kurdish people, yet it is...

Time is ticking for the Kurdish people

Posted on December 20, 2018 5:16 am

The opportunity to choose independence is coming, and it is important that we take it,...

The massacre of 1983 is often forgotten when we remember the larger genocide of the Anfal

Posted on December 20, 2018 5:24 am

Thirty-four years ago today, those were the words that saved my life. I was nine,...

Kurdistan is to hold an independence referendum on 25th September 2017

Posted on December 20, 2018 5:36 am

Kurdistan is to hold an independence referendum on 25th September 2017, which has been formally...

Newroz and History is important to the Kurds

Posted on December 20, 2018 5:42 am

Newroz is upon us once again, Kurdistan’s new year set to be its biggest celebrations...

WHAT NOW FOR KURDISTAN?

Posted on December 26, 2018 10:39 pm

To even begin to guess at what might happen next, we need to understand what...

Life through my dreams

Posted on February 23, 2019 11:38 am

I have had about 15,695 days on this planet, and they have brought many things...

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