Kurdistan Regional Government Essays

  • Urbanization in the Kurdistan Region

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    growth across the world has been increasing over the last 40 years, and it is expected to happen in the developing countries' urban areas. Kurdistan is a developing country; before Kurdistan region was not as developed as it is now, and it still needs more development. Kurdistan is considered as a 3rd world country, and that was because the central governments of Iraq did not give enough attention to this region like they did to Baghdad, Mosul and Basra. That is why; this region became less developed

  • The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP)

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    The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) is a splinter group of the PDKI and is led by Khalid Azizi. In 2006, at the PDKI’s 13th convention, the dispute over choosing its next leader led some senior members to leave the party. Under Azizi’s leadership, they created the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). In 2012, “the PDKI and KDP met in Iraqi Kurdistan to discuss a possible reunification,”[11] however, for the time being, they function independently. The KDP is based

  • Oppression Of The Kurds In The United States

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    The suppression of the Kurds began when the provisions of the Sykes-Picot Treaty was created result of World War One. The people of Kurdistan went from being part of the Ottoman empire to being divided into four countries and three distinct ethnicities namely Arabs, Persians, and Turks. The new nations of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria were formed at the expense of the identity of the Kurds whom were natives to their ancestral land. Throughout history, the Kurds have been constantly oppressed within

  • Overview of Kurdistan

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    Kurdistan is a region located between Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey. The Kurds are the biggest ethnicity on the planet without a state to this day. This paper will focus on the Iraqi part of Kurdistan, for it has come the closest to a state-like notion as per Weber’s definition. Iraqi Kurdistan is a region characterized by many diplomatic issues due to lack of acceptance as a state. The region was established through an autonomy agreement with Iraqi government in 1970 after decades of disputes between

  • The Kurdish and the Palestinian Cases of Struggle

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    A History of Palestine,634-1099 Cambridge University Press, (1983) 1997 pp.222-300 NEZAN, K. Who Are The Kurds? Kurdish Institute of Paris. Retrieved from: http://www.institutkurde.org/en/institute/who_are_the_kurds.php van Bruinessen, Martin. "Kurdistan." Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World, 2nd edition. Joel Krieger, ed. Oxford University Press, 2001.

  • The Kurds and Kurdistan: Past, Present And Future

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    the biggest ethnic group without a nation state. This paper seeks to shed light on whom the Kurds are, the territory they claim being a part of their right, and more on the status of their struggle for nationhood, an independent Kurdistan with its main focus on Iraqi Kurdistan. It also establishes the relationship with the nation-states in which they (Kurds) live. The study also explores the challenges, and resolutions, of and by the Kurds. For Kurds to face their plight and get solutions, they have

  • Kurdish Geopolitics Past and Present

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    Southern Sudan, Kurdistan or Eritrea - in short, whenever the national question was raised within a third world country - this section of the public opinion has tended to remain silent and confuesed.1 This lack of knowledge about the Kurds and Middle East in general is a major wall between resolution of the many problems that exist in the Middle East. I would like to give you a better understanding of what it is to be Kurdish by describing to you the past and present condition of Kurdistan, the state

  • Syrian Civil War Simulation Analysis

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    In this two weeks’ tutorial, we did the simulation activity which is about Syria conflict. On behalf of the role of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (following refer to as the PYD) and other delegates' representatives, I conducted negotiations on the Syrian civil war and gave four resolutions. And our group focusses on some questions which are related to the Syrian civil war. Therefore, these resolutions are ceasefire, sanctions, humanitarian relief and political transition. I will illustrate what

  • Personenkult And Propaganda Essay

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    obedience; this essay will create an analysis of the Nazis political pathway and determine their use of techniques and political tools and their effectiveness. Furthermore it will draw a comparison to the personality cult practises used in the Kurdistan Regional Government. Adolf Hitler was an Austrian born son of a custom bureau worker Alois Hitler and mother Klara, with incredible oratorical strength, which later in his political life spam would become his number one tool to gather the masses. In 1920

  • Essay On Human Rights In Iraq

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    by the Republic of Iraq, and in domestic legislation, all of which are identified during the course of this submission. Freedom of Expression 3. DPI is particularly concerned by the extent to which the legislative framework in the Kurdish Regional Government ‘KRG’ of Northern Iraq allows for violations of freedom of expression, although Article 38 of the Con¬stitution of the Republic of Iraq enshrines this important right . Article 46 allows restrictions to the right of freedom of expression to

  • The Hamidiye Light Cavalry Regiments

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    who eventually supported the policy, mainly the Kurdish peasants and Armenians, came to oppose it later and those that were the opposition, were predominantly the benefactors of the old Hamidiye regiments, came to support the new policies. The new government failed to modernize and provide better facilities much like their predecessor. The power structure in the borderlands remained the same. Works Cited Klein, Janet. The Margins of Empire: Kurdish Militias In The Ottoman Tribal Zone. Stanford

  • Syrian Refugees Research Paper

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    The terrorist attacks on Paris furthered the rejection of Syrian refugees by enhancing the Islamophobia against Syrians, feeding to the Anti Syrian Sentiment. The international community used the fear produced from the Paris attacks to develop more restrictive policies such as closing borders, refugee detainment, and Syrian refugees now seek shelter with the negative stigma of being associated to terrorism. On the night of November 13th, six specific Parisian local hotspots, chosen by ISIS extremists

  • The Relationship of Drug-Trafficking and Terrorism in the United States Of America

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    officials who participated in a special symposium December 4 at the headquarters of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Hosted by the DEA Museum & Visitors Center, ‘Target America: Traffickers, Terrorists and Your Kids’ brought together government officials with the private-sector experts in an effort to educate the American public about what DEA Administrator Asa Hutchingson called the ‘extraordinary link between drugs and terrorism.’ The symposium was part of an effort by the Association

  • The Kurdish Problem

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    Kurdish Problem; the domestic implications the Kurdish problem has created, such as the political disarray that develops when discussing the creation of pro-Kurdish parties, their opposition, and their inability to have any form of success within the government. The “terror problem.” The economic impact associated with regions most closely related to the Kurdish people. International implications dealing with Turkey, it’s neighbors, and the United States. Syria and Iraq are essential to discuss when dealing