Iraq: The Day of Reckoningeyewitness: Arbil, the Kurdish Capital Despite Demand for Independence, Kurds Look Set to Turn Out in Force, Reveals Seb Walker
Sunday Herald › February 01, 2005
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AFTER weeks of uncertainty over the level of Iraqi Kurd participation in today's national elections, campaigning in the Kurdish-controlled zone of Iraq's mountainous north has only recently started in earnest.
In the streets of Arbil, the regional capital of the territory declared a semiautonomous Kurdish enclave by the allies after the 1991 Gulf war, election posters have sprouted up almost overnight.See the full content of this document
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Iraq: The Day of Reckoningeyewitness: Arbil, the Kurdish Capital Despite Demand for Independence, Kurds Look Set to Turn Out in Force, Reveals Seb Walker
Young men waving the red, white, green and gold Kurdish flag or banners of Kurdish parties race around the city in pick-up trucks mounted with huge speakers blaring out political slogans and traditional Kurdish music.
As evening fal...See the full content of this document
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