How To Use Kurdistan In A Sentence
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The Kurdistan militia, known as the peshmerga, was put on alert Friday, and sent to the Turkish-Iraqi border that day.
Iraqi Kurds Call for Turkish Troops to Leave
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Kurdistan was the scene of devastation, genocide and war, and is now a promising territory in the Middle East," the British-educated engineer said in a well-practised pitch.
Kurdistan pitches to western investors as secure gateway to Iraq
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The worst place for deaths was Baghdad - 45,497, followed by MND north (which is the region that goes from Baghdad up to Kurdistan) where another 34,210 died.
Wikileaks Iraq: data journalism maps every death
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They unfortunately entered harsh and rugged Kurdistan just as winter was setting in, they tried to cross the mountains before the snows made them impassable but got bogged down halfway across.
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Kurdish Shepherd in Kurdistan moating near Qandil area
WN.com - Articles related to Calgary man among 30 dead in Iraq hotel blaze
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Kurdistan does not express any historicity and the various peoples claimed by the terrorist leaderships as theirs are not theirs and do not desire the formation of a ´Kurdistan´ because they know that a development of this sort would endanger their historical continuity.
American Chronicle
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I was born with the olfactory powers of a bloodhound, which is a blessing at fine restaurants but not in the city of Sulaimani, or Suli, in Iraqi Kurdistan.
City Journal
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The nomadic tribes live in the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan as they have for thousands of years.
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Massud Barzani's mother solved the problem between Barazani and Talabani they called the strategical partnership (it is really dividing the Kurdistan wealth as a game).
OpEdNews
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Iraqi Kurdistan was de facto independent from the central Iraqi government between the Persian Gulf War and the Iraq War, but could not declare statehood out of fear of losing international support.
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On Monday several hundred students in Irbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, protested the Turkish raid.
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Thus, with our embassy and military basing in Kurdistan, we’ll either be expected to defend the Kurds from the Turks (which could lead the Kurds to overreach in their interference in Turkey to start with) or we’ll defer to our NATO ally (which has a modern military) and stay neutral as the Turks pound the Kurds.
Matthew Yglesias » The Zero Option
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The nomadic tribes live in the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan as they have for thousands of years. The shepherds travel from place to place and raise sheep.
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Iraqi Kurdistan was de facto independent from the central Iraqi government between the Persian Gulf War and the Iraq War, but could not declare statehood out of fear of losing international support.
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However, our strength in Kurdistan is partly dependent on us letting the Kurdish parties and militias do what they want.
Matthew Yglesias » At Least We Have The Kurds
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The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), one of the two main Kurdish nationalist factions in northern Iraq, has been hoping to do away with Ansar ahead of any U. S.-led campaign against Saddam Hussein, not wanting to have to fight on two fronts .....
CT-SEN: Lieberman Suggests Terrorists Were In Iraq Before U.S. Invasion
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Sarah Shourd and the other Americans maintain they accidentally crossed into Iran while hiking in Iraqi Kurdistan.
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And among them is the urgent business of Kurdistan and the question of the status of, well, the largest city that may be in Kurdistan or not in Kurdistan, depending on who you talk to.
An End In Sight For Iraqi Government Deadlock
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Iraqi Kurdistan is stable, self-ruling and economically vibrant.
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Mr. Talabani, who is an Iraqi Kurd , says the U. S. would be welcome to establish long-term bases in the Kurdistan autonomous region of northern Iraq.
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In an interview with Foreign Policy on Wednesday from Sulaymaniyah in Kurdistan, a semi-autonomous region where the vice president has fled to evade an arrest warrant, Hashemi declared that the Iraqi political system is "drifting from building democracy to building an autocratic regime" -- and implied that Iraq's prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, was becoming a new Saddam Hussein.
Tareq al-Hashemi: Nouri al-Maliki Is Becoming A New Saddam Hussein
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Mr. Talabani's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) party has traditionally been close to Iran.
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The Kurdistan Freedom Falcons, which also claimed the bombing in Kemer, had vowed more assaults in retaliation for what it called the Turkish government's "war" against the rebels, according to pro-Kurdish Firat news agency.
FOXNews.com
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Welcome to Iraqi Kurdistan An American backpacking in Baghdad would have a life expectancy of about 20 minutes.
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Our listener question this week comes from Iraqi Kurdistan.
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Secretary Gates spent his final hours in Iraqi Kurdistan, meeting with the President of the semi-autonomous region, Massoud Barzani.
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A supporter of the pro-Kurdish DTP party flashes a victory sign as he waves a flag of the illegal Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) during a rally in Diyarbakir November 25, 2007 .
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Dindar Zebari, KRG Coordinator to the UN and other NGOs in Kurdistan, claims to have been awarded the degree Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Westminster University in London.
Global Voices in English » Kurdistance: Launching the Arab Association for Kurdish Rights
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Our listener question this week comes from Iraqi Kurdistan.
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But on Monday, the Union of Communities in Kurdistan, a group that shares a common leader with the PKK and often speaks on its behalf, sought to distance itself from the attack, which took place earlier on the day the PKK's four-month unilateral cease-fire had been due to expire.
PKK Denies Role in Istanbul Attack
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She responded, There are so many, but I think that my favorite hooping memory was when I was in Kurdistan in a Cafe.
Hooping.org | Blog | Luisa Gherdaoui: Inside The Hoop
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Make Oil Company of Lebanon was to start building a $3 billion, 250,000 b/d refinery in Kurdistan in 2006, and Make Oil Company bid for a $2.2 billion, 150,000 b/d refinery in Iraq.
Discourse.net: The Threat Level Remains Unchanged
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One targeted the intelligence service headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, which is led by Massoud Barzani, president of the semiautonomous northern Kurdish region.
Bombs Kill 8 in Kurdish City
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A supporter of the pro-Kurdish DTP party flashes a victory sign as he waves a flag of the illegal Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) during a rally in Diyarbakir November 25, 2007 .
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If all goes well, Iraq's first summer academy for young musicians will take place in Sulaimaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan, in August.
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A minor group in Kurdistan with little real pull or power.
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In a brazen and nearly unbelievable move, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) headed by warlord Masoud Barzani has prevented voting by Assyrian (also known as Chaldean and Syriac) Christians of the Nineveh Plain in northern Iraq.
Your Right Hand Thief
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Turkish President Gul told Talabani that he hoped that with the support of Iraqi leaders, especially those from Kurdistan, it would be possible to eliminate the cross-border activities of the PKK.
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In the north, the Kurds, though mostly Sunni, are on the alert to resist any attempts by Sunni Arabs, the ones moved in by Saddam Hussein as part of his arabization of Kurdistan, to retake power in Mosul or Kirkuk.
Jihad Watch
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Three hikers in Kurdistan took a wrong turn and are being held in Iran.
Short Takes
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Turkish politicians have repeatedly claimed the DTP is the political wing of the banned Kurdistan Workers 'Party (PKK).
The Earth Times Online Newspaper
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The regional government has also launched a campaign to tout Iraqi Kurdistan as a tourist destination, describing it as "the Other Iraq".
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On its northward journey it cut across Iraq south of Baghdad and followed the mountains north into Iraqi Kurdistan.
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Kicking off during the second week of July in Gallivare (that's Swedish Lappland to you), it features showdowns between such autonomist hopefuls as the aforementioned Padania (northern Italy), Kurdistan and Provence.
The Separatist’s World Cup
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He has described the charges as part of a political vendetta by Mr. Maliki and for the past four weeks has taken shelter in the northern semiautonomous Kurdistan region, which is a state-within-a-state out of Baghdad's control.
Iraqi Forces Battle Insurgents
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Khabur -- the Araxes of Xenophon -- flows from the Kurdistan mountains southwards, and runs into the Euphrates.] [Footnote 115: The Gozan river cannot be, as tacitly assumed by Asher, the Kizil Uzun (also known as the Araxes).
The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela
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Concerning the revival of Kurdish terrorism, the army is privately warning that it will close down the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) camps in neighboring Iraq if no one else does.
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In a landmark visit to the region last year, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan repeatedly referred to the "Kurdish administration," but never once used the word Kurdistan.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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The London and Toronto-listed company, as well as controlling resources off west Africa, also has oil assets in Iraqi Kurdistan close to Emerald's in north-east Syria on the Iraq border.
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Iraqi Kurdistan's Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani confirmed that Kurdish elite security called Pashmirga last week forced a group of Turkish soldiers to return to their base.
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Turkey maintains Kurdish extremists - members of the Kurdistan Workers Party, known as the PKK - have been launching attacks from northern Iraq on Turkish military personnel and civilians.
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Concerning the revival of Kurdish terrorism, the army is privately warning that it will close down the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) camps in neighboring Iraq if no one else does.
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The Addax deal will give Sinopec a strong foothold in oil-rich West Africa and Iraqi Kurdistan and a steady supply of oil for its refining operations.
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Tensions are growing over Turkey's raid into Iraqi Kurdistan to root out the PKK.
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Posted to Kurdistan, he set about trying to decipher King Darius's trilingual inscription on the Great Rock of Bisitun.
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The statement from the Union of Communities in Kurdistan accused Turkey's government of failing to endorse a democratic solution that would satisfy the country's large ethnic Kurdish minority and end the conflict with the PKK.
PKK Denies Role in Istanbul Attack
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In March, Turkey sent its first diplomat to Arbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, to staff a new consulate there.
John Feffer: Stealth Superpower: How Turkey Is Chasing China to Become the Next Big Thing
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He and Massoud Barzani, president of the Kurdistan Regional Government, who heads the KDP, one of two rival parties that jointly run Iraqi Kurdistan, are increasingly rude to each other.
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Born in Duhok in Iraqi Kurdistan in 1954, Mr Siti studied fine arts in Ljubljana from 1977 until 1982.
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Turkish tanks and hundreds, perhaps thousands of soldiers, crossed into Iraqi Kurdistan after heavy shelling targeted at the PKK in Iraq.
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Others – including the principality of Sealand, the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, Iraqi Kurdistan and a side representing the Aramean-Syriac people – have since joined their number.
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