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	The Kurdish Experience
		The Kurdish Republic of 1946 was the nationalist movement's most important achievement in modern state-building: although it did not claim independence, it had a president, a flag, a cabinet, a national army, and Kurdish was the official language.
		A visible change in Kurdish society in this period was the rise of the urban population due to the land reforms and the wars in the countryside.
		Kurdish demands for self-rule constitute a democratic pursuit that is incompatible with the despotism and ethnic-based nationalism of the Middle Eastern states.
	www.xs4all.nl /~tank/kurdish/htdocs/lib/kurdish_ex.html (4755 words)

	Debate on Kurdish issues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Kurdish people should not forget who they are married to, related to and are culturally, historically are inseperably intertwined with.
		Acknowledging and recognizing Kurdish rights within Turkey would be the first step in that direction but the likelihood of that in today’s Turkish state is minuscule.
		In fact Turks are strangers to Kurds and foreigners on Kurdish land.
	www.kurdishaspect.com /Comments.html (1123 words)

	Iraqi Kurdistan information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		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.
		The main Kurdish parties and peshmerga cooperated with the US-led coalition during the 2003 invasion of Iraq that led to Hussein's overthrow.
		Kurdish cuisine has gained the reputation throughout the region as one of the richest, healthiest and finest.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/Iraqi_Kurdistan (2071 words)

	Kurdish Region in Northern Iraq Will Get to Keep Special Status
		The precise terms of the future status of the Kurdish region in the transitional government, which is expected to last until the end of 2005, remain a matter of sharp dispute among members of the Iraqi Governing Council, the group handpicked by the American-led occupation that helps guide Iraq's future.
		While visiting the Kurdish region in September, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said that while he sympathized with Kurdish aspirations and understood that their leaders did not want to break away from Iraq, he was opposed to a separate Kurdish province or state as such.
		The Kurdish region is dominated by two feuding political parties that have been struggling to form a unified government in order to strengthen their hand in pushing for a federalist system that would give them broad autonomy into the future.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article5473.htm (1267 words)

	Boston.com / War in Iraq
		Dozens of Kurdish soldiers, exhausted from the night's fighting, rested on the ground, cradling their rifles in their arms and using their scarves to protect their faces from a fierce wind.
		Kurdish commander Sarbest Barbiri said there were believed to be some Republican Guard remnants and Fedayeen militiamen defending Mosul, but that the regular army was defeated or had given up.
		Kurdish forces have also tightened their ring around the key oil center of Kirkuk, and were within sight of the city Tuesday following heavy coalition airstrikes on front-line Iraqi positions.
	www.boston.com /news/daily/09/northern_front.htm (970 words)

	ZNet \| Iraq \| Double Crossing the Kurds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Northern Iraq is a region steeped in colonial ghosts, political betrayals, and ethnic tensions, an area that the U.S. invasion now threatens to ignite into a disastrous civil war between its kaleidoscope of tribes, people, and adjoining countries.
		Kurdish aspirations to statehood are replete with betrayals, first by the British after World War I, then by the Americans and the Shah of Iran, both who played them as chess pieces in regional competition and the Cold War.
		The Kurdish autonomous region is well organized, with a working parliament, several Kurdish-language TV and radio channels, and universities.
	www.zmag.org /content/Iraq/doublecross.cfm (841 words)

	Kurds Emerging As Iraq's Power Brokers
		Kurdish leaders said Tuesday that they were pushing for a Kurd to be president of Iraq.
		Kurdish leaders have expressed concern that Shiite religious parties could push for an Islamic state that would be heavily influenced by the clerics of Najaf.
		Kurdish leaders are also pushing for Kirkuk, a oil-rich northern city, to be folded into administration of the Kurdish region.
	www.truthout.org /cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/37/8864 (2458 words)

	Iraqis Promising a Constitution by the Deadline
		One is the desire of the Kurdish leaders to expand the area under the control of the Kurdish autonomous region.
		Kurdish leaders say they will insist that a number of majority Kurdish areas, like Mahmoor in northern Iraq, be turned over to their control.
		Kurdish leaders say they want the Iraqi constitution to spell out a process by which the "Arabization" of the region will be reversed, the Kurds resettled and a plebiscite held to determine whether the region will come under Kurdish control.
	www.epic-usa.org /Default.aspx?tabid=1475 (734 words)

	Iraq's Kurds Ponder How To Strengthen Autonomy After Elections
		He hopes that will help bolster Kurdish leaders' argument that Kirkuk has a majority Kurdish population and should be incorporated into the Kurdish autonomous region.
		Kurdish leaders have said they will respect Kirkuk's mixed ethnic character, but that those who displaced Kurds should return to the south.
		Kirkuk is the center of an oil-rich region and would greatly add to the autonomous Kurdish region's economic strength.
	www.aina.org /news/20051212120334.htm (861 words)

	Iraqi Melting Pot Nears Boiling Point???
		Kurdish political leaders — Jalal Talabani and Massoud Barzani — are former mountain guerrillas who operate on a tribal code of loyalty, expecting one favor in exchange for another.
		Kurdish militias stormed the city on a two-day looting spree as several Baath Party members were executed.
		The Kurdish proposal is to force the Arabs brought in by Hussein over the last 20-plus years off the property and out of the villages seized from Kurds.
	www.puk.org /web/htm/news/nws/news040125.html (1894 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| REGION \| Repairing the failed state (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		We are seeking a formula where the Kurdish people will benefit from the natural resources of Kurdistan, resources that were squandered by Saddam Hussein to build weapons of mass destruction and engage in wars of aggression against the Kurds and Iraq's neighbours.
		Above all the Kurdish region has to be recognised as an entity within the new Iraqi federal state.
		The Kurdish position is clear: we believe that historically, geographically and demographically Kirkuk is an integral part of Kurdistan, that Kirkuk is a city inhabited by Kurds, Turkomans, Assyrians and those indigenous Arabs who lived there prior to the Arabisation campaign through which Saddam Hussein instituted a policy of ethnic cleansing.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2004/679/re8.htm (1165 words)

	Iraqi Kurds: Hour of Power? - Middle East Quarterly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A Kurdish region was to be formed in the north; Kurds were to enjoy proportional representation in parliament; and there was to be a Kurdish vice president.
		This framework has included the management of local government in different parts of Kurdistan by Kurdish officials, the open and free activities of Kurdish political parties, and the institutionalization of a Kurdish parliament, whose delegates were chosen in the more-or-less free elections of May 1992.
		Indeed, the Kurdish autonomous experiment has become a possible model for Iraq as a whole—and Iraq, in the minds of some, is destined to become a model for the Arab world.
	www.meforum.org /article/554 (4202 words)

	Asia Times Online :: Middle East News, Iraq, Iran current affairs
		Call it Kurdish wishful thinking, but that is how they have felt about the prospects of their independence ever since the US dismantled Saddam's regime.
		For instance, a major leader who is not a member of the Iraqi government, Masoud Barzani, demanded on August 12 that the Kurdish autonomous region should be allocated 65% of the revenues from the disputed oil fields of Kirkuk.
		Thus, by having an autonomous region of their own, the Shi'ites are making sure that the primacy of Islam is guaranteed, at least in their region.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/GH16Ak03.html (1720 words)

	Unusual alliances in Iraq - Conflict in Iraq - MSNBC.com
		Kurdish parties have been encouraging Kurds who were displaced from the Kirkuk area by Saddam Hussein, a Sunni Arab, to return to the city.
		The goal is to increase Kurdish numbers in time for a parallel election Jan. 30, in which voters in the city will decide whether to join the Kurdish autonomous region.
		The contacts between the Kurdish and Sunni Arab parties was also motivated by their common fear of an overwhelming Shiite victory, especially if the Sunni clerics convince many of their followers not to take part in the election.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6605518 (1001 words)

	Middle East News : Baker report inappropriate, says Kurdish leader (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The president of Iraq's Kurdish autonomous region issued a strongly worded rebuke yesterday of the Iraq Study Group's report on the situation in Iraq and recommendations for US policy, describing it as "unrealistic and inappropriate".
		It begins by criticising the report's authors for never visiting the Kurdish region during their nine-month-long research for the report.
		Their autonomous region has escaped the violence raging in the rest of the country and is practically a separate entity.
	www.keralanext.com /news/?id=916741 (391 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		ARBIL, Iraq (Agencies): Iraq’s Kurdish parliament on Sunday began debating the region’s permanent constitution, a contentious document laying claim to other parts of Iraq and setting conditions for Kurds to remain part of the country.
		The official languages of the region are Arabic and Kurdish and the population is recognized to include Turkmens, Chaldeans, Assyrians, Armenians, Kurds and Arabs.
		The Kurdish national flag will hang in government offices side by side with the Iraqi federal flag (which has yet to be redrawn), stated the draft.
	www.arabtimesonline.com /arabtimes/world/view.asp?msgID=8421 (1398 words)

	Kurdish PM: Iraqi Violence Will Not Spill Over into Kurdistan Region (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		His father-in-law, Massoud Barzani, is president of the Kurdistan Region, and the Barzani family has been prominent in Kurdish politics and the fight for autonomy for decades through its Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP).
		The Kurdistan region is part of Iraq, but since 1992 has had its own elected parliament and run its affairs.
		Kurdish rebels, known as the Kurdistan Workers Party have launched attacks into Turkey from their bases in the mountains of northern Iraq.
	www.voanews.com /english/2006-07-26-voa24.cfm (885 words)

	BakuTODAY.net - Rice tells Iraq's Kurds to share their oil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		US Secretary of State Rice continued her surprise visit to Iraq with a trip to the Kurdish autonomous region in the north for talks on sharing of the country's oil wealth.
		Tensions between the Kurdish region and the rest of the country peaked recently when the Kurds began to independently pursue foreign oil deals and threatened to secede when the central government objected.
		The three predominantly Kurdish northern provinces of Iraq form the Kurdish Autonomous Region, which increasingly operates as a separate entity from the rest of the country.
	www.bakutoday.net /view.php?d=27556 (925 words)

	Turkmen ministers of new unity gov’t hopeful for future - Turkish Daily News May 12, 2006
		The two Turkmen members of the new unity government in the Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq have sounded hopeful for the future, as the new Cabinet its first meeting yesterday led by the new prime minister of the regional administration, Nechrivan Idris Barzani.
		Over the weekend, 111 lawmakers of the regional Parliament of the Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region voted unanimously in favor of a single administration to run their region, ending the previous system of two separate local governments.
		The single administration is actually expected to reaffirm Kurdish territorial claims, especially for the ethnically mixed oil hub of Kirkuk that Kurds consider their own and which is located just south of their autonomous region.
	www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /article.php?enewsid=43209 (610 words)

	TomDispatch - Tomgram: Dilip Hiro on the Kurdish crisis
		The training of Kurdish militiamen may, in the short run, aid Israel's policies in the region and bolster Kurdish dreams of an independent state, but it will, in the end, likely prove yet another disaster for the Kurds.
		While evidently assigning their Kurdish agents in Iran the task of gathering intelligence on the government's nuclear activities, in Iraq their agents have been encouraging Kurdish aspirations for an independent state.
		During the Kurdish insurgency of the late 1960s and early 1970s, the ethnic composition of Greater Kirkuk became a point of contention between the Iraqi government and Kurdish nationalists, with the latter claiming a Kurdish majority in the city and its suburbs.
	www.tomdispatch.com /index.mhtml?pid=1593 (2411 words)

	Kurdish language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kurdish blogs have emerged in recent years as virtual fora where Kurdish-speaking Internet users can express themselves in their native Kurdish or in other languages.
		In Kurdish the object agrees with the subject and the verb agrees with the object and thus is unlike Persian, Turkish and Arabic in which the object has an accusative marker and the verb in all tenses agrees with the subject of the sentence.
		Kurds in Northern regions of western Azarbaijan province, in northern Khorasan of Iran, and in Dohuk and Mosul governorates in Iraqi Kurdistan speaks this dialect.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kurdish_language (1832 words)

	Iraq War Weblog, Conflict in Iraq
		Up in the Kurdish autonomous area in the north, the Northern Front has yet to be activated as I write this on Sunday evening.
		The border, the frontline between this part of the Kurdish Autonomous region and the rest of Iraq is the Greater Zab river.
		In the village of Kalak, a Kurdish hamlet stuck on the wrong side of the Zab, snipers fire during the day, mostly at journalists interviewing the few residents of the place who haven't fled.
	www.wbur.org /special/iraq/fieldreports/erbil1.asp (859 words)

	Hundreds of unmarked graves found in northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk
		Tens of thousands of Kurdish men disappeared in Iraq during Saddam's rule -- part of a drive to crush an independence movement and drive ethnic minorities from oil-rich areas.
		After a Kurdish autonomous region was established in northern Iraq in 1991 under the protection of the United States, human rights investigators said they found numerous mass graves in areas that had fallen from Saddam's grasp.
		The oil city of Kirkuk was not part of the autonomous region, and its capture during the war to oust Saddam was considered a great prize for the Kurds.
	www.post-gazette.com /World/20030417massgravesp6.asp (457 words)

	The New Media Journal \| Iraq: Let's Split the Difference by Lance Thompson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Adnan Mufti, president of the Kurdistan National Assembly, has stated that his goal is an autonomous region within a federal Iraqi framework, but that assumes that there will be a sustainable framework and a stable coalition government.
		Even now, as factions fight over shared responsibility for all of Iraq, the Kurdish region is insulated from the strife by its own success.
		With a stable independent Kurdish state as a model, Sunnis and Shiites would have a choice–cooperate to share the wealth of the rest of Iraq, or continue to fight over it.
	www.therant.us /staff/l_thompson/12052006.htm (1092 words)

	IRAQ: Kirkuk Fearful of Future
		Many Kurds say Kirkuk is really a Kurdish province, and that large numbers of ethnic Arabs were settled there by the Saddam regime - a move that Article 140 could undo.
		Kurdish leaders want to speed up action over Article 140 in the hope of bringing Kirkuk into a Kurdish autonomous region.
		Turkey also claims historical rights in Kirkuk, on the grounds that the city was ruled by Ottoman Turks for centuries until the creation of the modern state of Iraq in the 1920s.
	www.ipsnews.net /news.asp?idnews=34949 (773 words)

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