http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/scat/kurds kurdish kurdistan The latest news about Kurdistan in Iraq en support@iraqupdates.com support@iraqupdates.com PHP RSS Feed Generator I wish the entire country could have listened to the speech at a limited conference in Istanbul on Monday and Tuesday. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61765/refid/RSS-kurdistan-07-11-2009 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:02:00 +0000 As the New York Times reporter asked northern Iraq’s interior minister Karim Sinjari about ever deepening Turkish-Iraqi ties, Sinjari looked at the deep-blue waters of the Bosporus and said, “A year ago, we couldn’t have imagined being here today.” http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61764/refid/RSS-kurdistan-07-11-2009 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:01:00 +0000 Iraqi MPs are to vote on Saturday on a controversial electoral bill after a compromise text was agreed, a senior lawmaker said, raising hope that a poll can go ahead as planned in January. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61750/refid/RSS-kurdistan-07-11-2009 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:12:00 +0000 Senior members in the State of Law coalition have announced the alliance’s intention to abolish the ministerial quota system which has been in place for six years if it wins January’s national elections. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61695/refid/RSS-kurdistan-07-11-2009 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:09:00 +0000 Iraqi Kurdistan’s reappointed Oil Minister Ashti Hawrami renewed his insistence that Kurdish authorities be involved in any deals Iraq signs with foreign oil majors over the Kirkuk oilfields, Reuters reports. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61684/refid/RSS-kurdistan-07-11-2009 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:29:00 +0000 Iraqi politicians have been turning up their rhetoric over Kirkuk, the oil-rich city that both Kurds in the north and Arabs in the south want to control. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61681/refid/RSS-kurdistan-07-11-2009 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:26:00 +0000 Iraqi leaders are holding out hope that the new Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Region, Dr. Barham Saleh, who was sworn into his post on October 28, will be able to resolve the ongoing problems between the Kurdistan Region and Baghdad. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61632/refid/RSS-kurdistan-07-11-2009 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:25:00 +0000 Nearly half of all Iraqis who died in October perished in a single coordinated attack against government offices in Baghdad, a tally by The Associated Press showed Monday. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61628/refid/RSS-kurdistan-07-11-2009 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:20:00 +0000 Iraqi Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani says the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) must make dramatic changes if it doesn't want to be rejected by the masses of Kurdish people. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61627/refid/RSS-kurdistan-07-11-2009 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:20:00 +0000 Dr. Barham Saleh becoming Prime Minister of the Kurdish Region has great political value, not just for the Kurds, but also for the Arabs. It is true that this represents a [political] loss to Baghdad, but Barham Saleh will be taking his [political]... http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61503/refid/RSS-kurdistan-07-11-2009 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:58:00 +0000 Iraqi politicians have been turning up their rhetoric over Kirkuk, the oil-rich city that both Kurds in the north and Arabs in the south want to control. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61490/refid/RSS-kurdistan-07-11-2009 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:16:00 +0000 Turkey’s Foreign Minister Professor Ahmet Davutoğlu yesterday arrived in Erbil for talks with Kurdistan Region President Masoud Barzani, the first ever Turkish foreign minister to visit the Region. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61467/refid/RSS-kurdistan-07-11-2009 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:25:00 +0000 Turkey extended a regional peace drive to Iraqi Kurds when Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu met with top Kurdish officials in a landmark visit to Erbil. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61465/refid/RSS-kurdistan-07-11-2009 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:21:00 +0000 Iraqi politicians have been turning up their rhetoric over Kirkuk, the oil-rich city that both Kurds in the north and Arabs in the south want to control. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61459/refid/RSS-kurdistan-07-11-2009 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:41:00 +0000 Iraq's electoral body warned Sunday that polls set for January will have to be delayed if procedures are not ironed out in the next two days, as a parliamentary vote on an election law was again postponed. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61448/refid/RSS-kurdistan-07-11-2009 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:39:00 +0000 Several alliances, many presenting themselves as nationalists who have rejected the sectarianism that pitted Iraq's majority Shi'ites and once dominant Sunnis against each other, plan to compete in the parliamentary election in January [ID:nMUH136843]. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61479/refid/RSS-kurdistan-07-11-2009 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:32:00 +0000 Youth in Suleimaniya, in Kurdistan Region, top the chart of readership in Iraq, according to a study conducted by the country's Ministry of Sports and Youth. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61472/refid/RSS-kurdistan-07-11-2009 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:32:00 +0000 Kurdistan Region Parliament on Wednesday voted to approve Barham Salih as the Prime Minister for the sixth Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Cabinet. The Parliament also, with majority of votes, approved Azad Barwari as Deputy Prime Minister and... http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61469/refid/RSS-kurdistan-07-11-2009 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:29:00 +0000 The president of Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdish region has demanded the disputed, ethnically divided city of Kirkuk, which dominates the northern oilfields, be put under his control. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61457/refid/RSS-kurdistan-07-11-2009 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:39:00 +0000 President of Kurdistan region Mass'ud Barazani confirmed that Kurdistan could be a good channel between Ankara and Baghdad. It came during a press conference held Friday in Erbil with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmed Dauedoglu. http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/61364/refid/RSS-kurdistan-07-11-2009 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:53:00 +0000