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HALABA 2013 – YEAR OF INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION OF HALABJA AS GENOCIDE

Iraqi Kurdistan: Genocide To Be Discussed In British Parliament – UNPO – Concerted efforts over the last year by Kurdish and British campaigners have scored a major result. The British Parliament will discuss the genocide against the Iraqi Kurds in a special and historic debate from about 2.15-5pm on Thursday 28 February…

Is Turkey ready to become a ‘binational’ state? – Hurriyet Daily News – The Republic of Turkey was the heir of the multinational, multi-faith and multi-linguistic Ottoman Empire. Its founding fathers sought to create a homogenous nation-state similar to the attempts of the ethnic groups that had previously seceded from the empire. Almost a century later, despite the ongoing controversy surrounding the matter, we can safely say that this goal was to a large extent achieved…

Iraqi Kurdistan Struggles to Meet Needs of Displaced Syrian Kurds  – Al Monitor – When popular protests erupted in Syria, a mass influx to the Kurdistan region of Iraq began, particularly from the Kurdish majority areas in Syria. The flow of people reached numbers that exceeded the expectation of the Kurdish administration, which started to look for ways to provide refugees with shelter and assistance…