es ist genau o.oo uhr im irak
ein historischer tag beginnt , möge er in frieden enden und dem nahen osten und der islamischen welt ein beispiel sein ,
:daumen:
lang lebe kurdistan und ewiger frieden für den irak
leider darf ich nocht nicht wählen, da mein vater iraner ist, aber das gesetz soll noch dieses jahr geändert werden , dann darf ich auch wählen
morgen begleite ich meine mutter zur wahl
130 kurdistan allliance
an tagen wie diesen, fällt uns wieder ein wofür das alles
wer in kölner raum lebt, sollte nach ossendorf reisen, dort wird bestimmt eine riesenfeier veranstaltet
und kein neider wird uns das nehmen
lasst die freiheit herrschen
über 2,1 millionen wähler in den drei provinzen alleine mit bis zu 95%-100% wahlbeteiligung
vielleicht intressiert hier einige, dass die gesetzgebung in kurdistan sich an der eu orientiert , so kommen echte revolutionen im nahen osten zustande
z.b anschnallpflicht im auto, die dann eingehalten wird
und herr aksoy aus der türkei sagt , dass es wie in der türkei sei
kein wunder das lohnniveau is vier mal höher als im rest des landes und höher als in den meisten regionen der türkei , und bald wird dem bau einer drei milliarden teueren autobahnnetzes begonnen, dass kurdistan endlich in 21gste jahrhundert wirft , kurdistan ist die wirtschaftlich am schnellstwachsende region der welt , mit bis zu 80 % wirtschaftswachstum im jahr 2004 und einer arbeitlosenrate von mittlerweile 0% bzw es werden arbeitskräfte gebraucht , und das ohne groß öleinahmen einzukassieren , die aber bald kommen , und dann werden wir den irakischen motor wieder zum laufen bringen , und für ganz kurdistan ein anstoß sein , ganz irak kann so aussehen
ich hoffe unsere arabischen brüder, begreifen , dass wir wahre freiheit nur durch wirtschaftliche freiheit erreichen und nicht durch bomben
wenn das so weiter geht , wird das wirtschaftliche verhältnis bald so sein wie zwischen israel und palästina , das wünscht sich aber keiner
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[quote]Wherever you go, from Dohuk in the far north to Sulaymaniyah in the east, cities are awash with building sites. Tempted by wages that have doubled since last year, Iraq’s poor come from as far away as the Kuwaiti border to look for work on street corners. Building contractors complain of an acute lack of cement.
Fancy Chinese food cooked by Chinese chefs? Come to Sulaymaniyah. Fancy an evening at a 16-lane 10-pin bowling alley? After March, Sulaymaniyah will have that too, designed and built by an expert from Singapore.
"The simple fact they got rid of the dictator Saddam Hussein is reason enough to thank the coalition forces," said Hawry Mahmud, an engineer in Sulaymaniyah. "But the war has also brought great opportunities."
"You cannot compare northern Iraq to the rest of the country," Ankara-based building contractor Irfan Aksoy said. "You almost feel as though you are in Turkey here: They have security and a government, not a power vacuum."
The calm ensured by the presence of 80,000 militiamen guarding the invisible border between Kurdish and Arab areas has had another effect. Decades after they fled Baghdad’s oppression, diaspora Kurds have begun to return home, bringing their Western ways with them.
Get into a taxi in Sulaymaniyah today, and chances are the driver won’t move until you fasten your seat belt. It’s the new law.
"The new Transport Minister spent 20 years in Sweden," shrugs one man, weaving nonchalantly through the unruly traffic on the city’s main boulevard.
After 14 years of de facto independence from Baghdad, many Kurds face tomorrow’s election with a mixture of pragmatism and unease
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SULEIMANIYAH, Iraq, Jan 29 (AFP) - 14h21 - Scores of youngsters brandishing Kurdish flags brought a cup final atmosphere to this northern Iraqi city Saturday as Kurdish leaders sought to get voters out for the elections to consolidate the community’s hard-won autonomy.
Armed peshmerga militiamen, the symbol of successive Kurdish uprisings against Baghdad in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, joined the crowds as their leaders sought to whip up enthusiasm for Sunday’s election and maximise the Kurdish presence in the new national assembly.
Kurdish leaders want that text to enshrine their hard-fought right to self-rule and want their existing autonomous region expanded to include the northern oil centre of Kirkuk and parts of two other provinces.
A massive turnout across Kurdish-inhabited areas of the disputed provinces of Tamim (Kirkuk), Nineveh (Mosul) and Diyala would be an enormous boost to their claims.
The most prominent Kurd in Iraq’s US-backed interim government, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, predicted that there would be a massive turnout by Kurds across Iraq.
"Our forecasts are based on the mobilisation of the Kurdish electorate, not only in the towns of the north but also in Baghdad, Mosul, Kirkuk and in Diyala province," said Zebari, who is himself a candidate for the assembly.
According to Iraq’s independent electoral commission there are 2.1 million eligible Kurdish voters in the three northern provinces alone.
The figures for other provinces are disputed, but if the Sunni Arab elite, which dominated Saddam’s regime and all previous Iraqi governments, heeds boycott calls from leading clerics and politicians, the Kurds are likely to account for much of the turnout in those areas too.
Kurdish leaders pride themselves that, in the northern provinces at least, polling day security is not the life-and-death concern that it is elsewhere, particularly in Sunni Arab areas of central Iraq.
The Kurdish provinces are even keeping open their links to the outside world, unlike the centre and Shiite south where land borders and Baghdad international airport were sealed on the eve of election day and due to remain so until after the close of polls.
"Arbil international airport will be open for international flights, the frontier post at Habur with Turkey will also be open," said local electoral commission chief Kamal Ghimbar.
