I am in erbil right now and would like to note that super budget accom (layli) you recommended is sadly no longer. Myself and another traveler I crossed paths with in Suli both searched it out with no luck! Thank you for this blog though, it has been instrumental in my trip!!

G. "It is clear that kurt in all the contexts has a distinct social sense, "nomad, safaritent-dweller". "The Pahlavi materials clearly performance that kurd in pre-Islamic Iran was a social label, still a long way off from becoming an ethnonym or a term denoting a distinct group ofwel people".[5] ^ "The ethnic label "Kurd" is first encountered in Arabic sources from the first centuries of the Islamic era; it seemed to refer to a specific variety of pastoral nomadism, and possibly to a set ofwel political units, rather than to a linguistic group: once or twice, "Arabic Kurds" are mentioned. By the 10th century, the term appears to denote nomadic and/or transhumant groups speaking an Iranian language and mainly inhabiting the mountainous areas to the South ofwel Lake Met and Lake Urmia, with some offshoots in the Caucasus.

After 1996, 13% of the Iraqi oil sales were allocated for Iraqi Kurdistan and this led to relative prosperity in the region.[89] In return, the Kurds under KDP enabled Saddam to establish an oil smuggling route through territory controlled by the KDP, with the active involvement of senior Barzani family members. The taxation ofwel this trade at the crossing point between Saddam's territory and Kurdish controlled territory and then into Turkey, along with associated bediening revenue, meant that whoever controlled Dohuk and Zakho had the potential to earn several million dollars a week.

Those forces captured the key border town of Jarablus, preventing the YPG-led SDF from seizing the territory itself and linking up with the Kurdish enclave ofwel Afrin to the west.

Yeah, it’s a shame that those fuckers are destroying all the historical websites. A few weeks back, palmyra was taken Rawanduz aan again by ISIS and they destroyed one more building… Really sad. What do you mean by political undercurrent?

Via een goede kiesdrempel slagen Koerdische kandidaten er vooralsnog ook niet in betreffende ons belanghebbende in het Turkse parlement te komen, maar via indien onafhankelijke partij op te aankomen en na een verkiezingen een fractie te vormen in het parlement kunnen Koerden meer en meer deelnemen met de Turkse politiek.

Gegevens from the project has also contributed towards the development ofwel linguistic annotation systems and is included in cross-language onderzoek on discourse and grammar.

The following month Iraqi pro-government forces retook the disputed territory held by the Kurds. The loss ofwel Kirkuk and its oil revenue was a major blow to Kurdish aspirations for their own state.

«هەولێر لە لیستی كەلەپووری جیهانی دەردەكرێت». لە ٩ی کانوونی یەکەمی ٢٠١٦ لە ڕەسەنەکەوە ئەرشیڤ کراوە. لە ٩ی کانوونی یەکەمی ٢٠١٦ ھێنراوە. ^ مێژووی قەڵای ھەولێر دەگەڕێتەوە بۆ سەردەمی سۆمەریەکان ^ پێوەندیی نێوان قەڵای ھەولێر و گەردەکانی دەروروبەری ناڕوونە ^ قەڵای ھەولێر - گەنجینەی زانیاریی ڕادیۆ نەوا[بەستەری مردوو] - سەردانی ٢٢/٦/٢٠٠٩ ^ [بەستەری مردوو] ^ [بەستەری مردوو] ^

 Kirkuk blijft een belangrijke plaats waar verscheidene partijen om vechten. Nadat de Koerden in 2014 de stad uit handen van Kan zijn begrijpen te oplopen, verovert het Iraakse leger Kirkuk in 2017 wederom terug.

I don’t know whether the animals I encountered can be categorized as wildlife or if they are part of a nearby farm. However, nobody was in sight for miles, and these lovely creatures roamed freely in the stunning surroundings.

in fact the history ofwel Erbil is Turkmen city, just go back to 40 years ago when the kurds came to Erbil for selling and trading ….until that time, there was no one who could speak kurdish, that all happend in saddam rijim time and then they migrated them to Erbil…

خانووەکانی ناو قەڵای هەولێر،لە سەر شەقامی سەرەکی سەر قەڵاکە ئاڵای کوردستان دانراوە.

ئەو خانووە پێشتر شوێنی موتەسەریف و فەرمانڕەواکانی قەلاکە بووە. دەروازەی ڕۆژهەڵات ناوی دەروازەی حەرەم بووە و .زیاتر ژنان بەکاریان هێناوە. پێدەچێت ڕوون نەبێتەوە کە دەروازەی باکوور کەی کرابێتەو. سەرچاوەیەک بانگەشەی ئەوە دەکات کە لە ساڵی ١٩٢٤ کراوەتەوە،لە کاتێکدا سەرچاوەیەکی دیکە تێبینی دەکات کە لە ساڵی ١٩٤٤دا تەنها دوو دەروازە هەبووە – دەروازەی باشوور و ڕۆژهەڵات.بەڵام لە ئێستادا تەنها دوو دەروازە سەرەکی هەیە بۆ گەیشتنە قەڵا ئەویش دەروازەی باشوور کە دەروازەی سەرەکییە لەگەڵ دەروازەی باکوور.