Kurds protest in north Iraq as discontent grows with government

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Kurds protest in north Iraq as discontent grows with government

 

8/10/2015 18:05:00

 

     

KURDS PROTEST IN NORTH IRAQ AS DISCONTENT GROWS WITH GOVERNMENT

 

Kurds protested and went on strike in northern Iraq on Friday in a show of growing discontent that threatens to further undermine stability at a time when their region is at war with Islamic State.

Teachers, hospital workers and other public sector employees have taken to the streets for nearly a week demanding their wages from the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), which is three months in arrears.

The demonstrations are the most sustained unrest in the autonomous region of Kurdistan since the start of an economic crisis compounded by the conflict with Islamic State and a drop in oil prices that has pushed the region to the verge of bankruptcy.

The bubble began to deflate in early 2014 when Baghdad slashed funds to the region after it built its own oil pipeline to Turkey in pursuit of economic independence.

Then Islamic State overran a third of Iraq and attacked Kurdistan, scaring off foreign investors and displacing more than 3 million people of which nearly half have sought refuge in the region, further straining its resources.

 

http://pukmedia.com/EN/EN_Direje.aspx?Jimare=36407

 

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