Parliamentary power: Kurds did not provide a convincing justification for non-commitment to pay oil money

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Kurdistan decided to open all major roads with the Iraqi provinces

Saturday, 10 March 2018 02:26 PM

Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abbadi

 

BAGHDAD (AFP)

Kurdistan Tourism Authority announced on Saturday, the opening of all major roads with other Iraqi provinces; in preparation for the holidays of Nowruz, a national day for the Kurds.

"The tourism departments have taken all necessary preparations to receive tourists and facilitate their entry to Kurdistan on the occasion of the Norouz and the spring solutions," said Nader Rustai, spokesman for the agency.

Rustay added that the province decided - recently - the opening of all major roads with other Iraqi provinces, but the Iraqi authorities did not decide to open these roads on its part fully, indicating that large numbers of tourists from various regions of Iraq to Kurdistan during the winter.

It is noteworthy that the tourism sector in the Kurdistan region has witnessed - during the recent period - a significant decline because of the war against (Da'sh) and the financial crisis suffered by the Kurdistan region, while trying to concerned the government of the region to activate the tourism sector to contribute to the recovery of the Kurdistan economy.

 

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With all this news something has to give. 

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Parliamentary finance likely to pay the salaries of employees of Kurdistan during the current week

14:14 - 10/03/2018

 

  

Information / Baghdad ..

 Likely the decision of the Finance Committee parliamentary Ahmad Hama Rashid, Saturday, the salaries of employees of the Kurdistan region in the Ministries of Education and Health this week, revealing the reason for delay in Baghdad to pay salaries.

 "The Prime Minister Haider Abadi promised to pay the salaries of employees of ministries of education and health in the Kurdistan region before March 21, which means that this week is the time to pay salaries to employees."

 He added that "the most important reasons for the delay of the government to pay salaries are refusing to hand over salaries to the government of Erbil because of lack of confidence in them," indicating that "the Kurdish opposition parties proposed to Prime Minister Haider Abadi, the federal ministries to hand over salaries of staff of the region."

Rashid, a deputy of the Kurdistan Alliance, said that "the government is serious about the salaries of employees after completing the verification of names and preparation of staff of the ministries of health and education by the joint committees between Baghdad and Erbil." Ending / 25 d

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Baghdad delegation in Erbil on Sunday to finalize deal on flight ban, salaries: Source

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An Iraqi Airways plane at the Erbil International Airport in Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Sep. 29, 2017. (Photo: Reuters/Azad Lashkari)

 

 

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – A delegation from Baghdad will visit Erbil on Sunday as a final stage of settling ongoing disputes with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), a source said on Saturday.

A source who attended a meeting about planning the delegation told Kurdistan 24 that representatives from the Iraqi Interior Ministry are being sent to iron out remaining issues related to Baghdad's release of long-awaited salaries for KRG public employees and the removal of the international flight ban imposed on airports in the Kurdistan Region.

They will travel to Erbil less than a week after Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's Tuesday announcement that his government would release the salaries and lift the flight ban before Newroz.

Newroz, the Kurdish new year, is celebrated on March 21.

“We might send the salaries of employees [of the KRG’s health and education ministries] before Newroz, God willing,” Abadi stated during his weekly press briefing.

The Iraqi government under Nouri al-Maliki’s leadership in 2014 cut the Region’s share of the national budget. Coupled with Baghdad's ongoing delinquent budget payments to the KRG, this has substantially contributed to the economic crisis in Kurdistan in recent years.

Over the past few months, Abadi has repeatedly stated that he will send the salaries of the KRG employees soon, but has not yet done so, which has led many in the Kurdistan Region to describe Abadi’s promises as ‘propaganda.’

Baghdad imposed the flight embargo on Erbil and Sulaimani airports following the Sep. 25 referendum on independence in the Kurdistan Region, a move Kurdish officials have labeled "an 'international isolation’ of the Kurdistan Region.

Editing by John J. Catherine

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A delegation from the Kurdistan region is visiting Baghdad to receive the financial dues of three circles

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A delegation from the Kurdistan region will visit Baghdad tomorrow to receive the salaries of the last three months of last year to the directorates of passports, civil status and the national card. 

Salar Abdullah said in a statement to "Khandan", that the visit of the delegation of the province to Baghdad, comes at the request of the Ministry of Interior in the federal government, to receive these receivables. 

He noted that the Iraqi government after the referendum in the Kurdistan region and disputed areas, did not pay the salaries of months (October, November and December) for the employees of the three directorates mentioned.

 

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Massoud Barzani: Baghdad continues to violate the partnership and operates a mentality of denial and marginalization

 

Saturday 10 March

 

 

 

 

Alsumaria News / Arbil ,  said the President of the region of Kurdistan resigned Massoud Barzani , on Saturday, that the Iraqi government continues to "violation" of the partnership and is working with the mentality of "denial and marginalization", between it "violated" March 11 , the Convention and the Constitution of 2005.  Barzani said in a press statement on the occasion of anniversary 48 of the Convention of 11 March 1970, and received Alsumaria News a copy of it, "going today 48 years on the first agreement between the people of Kurdistan and the Iraqi government, which recognized some of the rights of the people of Kurdistan."     Barzani added that "after 48 years, after the genocide against the people of Kurdistan and beyond multiple stages, Baghdad violated this agreement and all other agreements, including the Constitution of 2005," noting that "after a history full of suffering, it is still the mentality of denial and marginalization is the deal With the people of Kurdistan. "  On March 11, 1970, the Iraqi government signed with the late Kurdish leader Mullah Mustafa Barzani the Kurdish Autonomy Agreement, in which the Iraqi government recognized the Kurdish national rights, provided Kurdish guarantees to participate in the Iraqi government, and the use of the Kurdish language in educational institutions. No decisive solution has been reached on the issue of Kirkuk, which remained pending pending the results of statistics to determine the proportion of different nationalities in the city of Kirkuk.

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Me thinks this fella is a wee bit ticked off.  Grrrrrrrr

Bless his thieving  heart.

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This FOOL needs to be repeatedly BIATCH Slapped with a Great Big God Awful Stinking Fish; then told to SHUT the HELL UP,  SIT Your Damn Azz Down in the Corner and NEVER say anything else " IF YOU WANNA LIVE ! " 

 

Hey, I'm trying to turn over a New Leaf here; I could have said just shoot him ( which would a lot of grief & aggro for so many folks ) - How's the New, Kinder, Gentler Me looking, huh ? 

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3 minutes ago, 10 YEARS LATER said:

 

This FOOL needs to be repeatedly BIATCH Slapped with a with a Great Big God Awful Stinking Fish; then told to SHUT the HELL UP,  SIT Your Damn Azz Down in the Corner and NEVER say anything else " IF YOU WANNA LIVE ! " 

 

Hey, I'm trying to turn over a New Leaf here; I could have said just shoot him ( which would a lot of grief & aggro for so many folks ) - How's the New, Kinder, Gentler Me looking, huh ? 

Honest!

[nannab]

26 minutes ago, 10 YEARS LATER said:

Hey, I'm trying to turn over a New Leaf here; I could have said just shoot him ( which would a lot of grief & aggro for so many folks ) - How's the New, Kinder, Gentler Me looking, huh ? 

 

Nah   

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1 hour ago, nannab said:

 

Nah   

 

Phew . . . dodged a bullet there. My wife knew it wouldn't work . . . she says - " You're Complicated "

 

I can't argue with that.  

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Kirkuk Governor: Kurdistan has frozen our reserves of petrodollars

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governor of Kirkuk, Rakan Said al-Jubouri, said on Sunday that the Kurdistan Regional Government has frozen assets of the Kirkuk administration of petrodollars, noting that the province was ready to receive them. 
"We had a balance of petrodollars that were exported through the Kurdistan Regional Government and we were evacuated by Baghdad and a joint committee was formed to go to Erbil to receive the amount on 2018/3/7," Jubouri told a press conference held in the governorate office. We were surprised to be informed of the freezing of the amount. "

He added that "the President of the Council of Kirkuk, currently in Erbil filed a complaint to the courts of Erbil, that the amounts of petrodollar will be spent illegally in Kirkuk." 
"We have informed the concerned and will work for the disbursement of funds," while the governor of Kirkuk did not disclose the value of the amount deposited in the banks of the Kurdistan region.

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11-03-2018 02:57 PM

Talabani: We are waiting for a decision by Abadi to lift the ban before the arrival of Awruz

 

 

 

"The province has committed itself to the provisions of the law and the Constitution on airports and salaries of the region's employees, and attention is directed towards Prime Minister Haider Abadi, to implement his promises and commitments of his government, especially with regard to ministries of health and education. 

Talabani, on the sidelines of his visit to projects in Sulaymaniyah, today (March 11, 2018), that 'the authorities of the region has complied with everything specified by the law and the Constitution on the airports and awaits a decision by Prime Minister Haider Abadi to lift the ban, before Nawruz, which coincides with the influx of tourists to the Kurdistan region And the travel of its citizens to meet their needs'.

He added that he saw no obstacle to the opening of airports and the disbursement of salaries of employees in the region, especially the ministries of health and education, which were the concern of Abadi, and teams of audit during the last period. He said that 'the provincial government has opened the doors of all departments and ministries before the federal audit teams and provided them with all the necessary data and information, despite our conviction Protnip some procedures'. 

"We hope that Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi, for his part, activate the federal commitments and the implementation of promises made more than once on assistance in the payment of salaries of employees of the provincial government. 

"The region's imports are much less after the measures taken against the background of the referendum and if the federal government helped to pay the salaries of some ministries of the region, our government can manage the rest of the ministries whose employees did not receive the salary of the month of November 2017, despite the allocation of compulsory savings'

The Prime Minister Haider Abadi, announced last Tuesday, that the file salaries of employees of the Kurdistan region and airports Erbil and Sulaymaniyah, is about to resolve, and may announce the developments ahead of the Norouz, culminating on the twenty-first of this month.

 

 

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Government of the Territory: We have implemented all the decisions of Baghdad on airports and wait for Abbadi

11/03/2018

 

 

 

(Independent) ... Vice President of the Kurdistan Regional Government Qubad Talabani that the Kurdistan Regional Government has implemented all the obligations on the opening of airports Erbil and Sulaymaniyah, expressing the hope that the implementation of Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Abadi promised to open the airports of the region before the holidays Noroz.

Talabani said in a press conference held in Sulaymaniyah that "we have implemented all our commitments related to the decisions of the Iraqi government on airports," and expressed the hope that "the implementation of Prime Minister Haider Abadi, his decision to open airports in the region before the Noruz holidays."

On the other hand, Talabani said that "we have provided all the necessary information to the Iraqi government on the payrolls of employees and we are waiting for the steps of Baghdad to pay the salaries of employees."

On March 9, 2018, the Alliance for Democracy and Justice announced that Prime Minister Haider Abadi pledged to the head of the coalition Barham Saleh to send the salaries of officials of the ministries of education and health in the Kurdistan region soon, noting that Abadi confirmed that international flights to the airports of the region will resume before Norouz.

 

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Massoud Barzani: Baghdad is continuing to blow up the partnership and all agreements between them and Erbil

 

 Since 2018-03-10 at 20:57 (Baghdad time)

Baghdad - Mawazine News

The head of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Massoud Barzani, on Saturday, the central government continues to violate the partnership and blow up all agreements between Baghdad and the people of Kurdistan for decades.

"After 48 years of agreement between the people of Kurdistan and the Iraqi government where the agreement resulted in granting part of the rights of the Kurdish people to them, the Iraqi government is still violating the partnership agreements," Barzani said in a statement received by Mawazine News.

He added that "after all these years and stages, the March agreement and all other conventions that were approved in the Iraqi constitution in 2005 are violated and blow up by Baghdad," echoing saying "after a history of disasters that have afflicted our people is still the destruction of the partnership is continuing and the denial of With the people of Kurdistan "

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Shafaq News / A government source said on Sunday that an official delegation from the federal government visited the Kurdistan Region.

The source told the news that "the visit of the delegation of the federal government comes to discuss a number of important files with the Kurdistan Regional Government."

The visit comes after Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi said during the weekly press conference last Tuesday that the employees of the Kurdistan region will receive their salaries, in addition to the airports of Arbil and Sulaymaniyah will resume their international activity, before the holiday of Norouz.

The source said that "the visit of the delegation of the federal government will discuss the outstanding issues between Baghdad and Erbil, with the aim of finding a solution to the differences and agree on a number of things, which comes as an update of what was discussed during previous meetings between the parties."

The Iraqi government imposed an international air embargo on Erbil and Sulaymaniyah airports on September 29, in response to Kurdistan's holding of the referendum.

 

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Kurdistan: Our imports have decreased following the Baghdad procedures

 

 Since 2018-03-11 at 14:46 (Baghdad time)

Baghdad Mawazine News

The deputy head of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Qubad Talabani, on Sunday, that the imports of the region decreased after the actions of Baghdad against the region.

Talabani said in an interview with reporters after opening a number of service projects in the city of Sulaymaniyah, and his follower / Mawazin News / that "the region committed to the provisions of the law and the Constitution on airports and salaries of staff of the region, and attention towards Prime Minister Haider Abadi, to implement his promises and commitments of his government, Referring to ministries of health and education, "noting that" the region's imports declined after the actions of Baghdad against the region. "

He added that "the authorities of the region has complied with all the provisions of the law and the Constitution on airports and awaits a decision by Prime Minister Haider Abadi to lift the ban, before the arrival of Nowruz, coinciding with the influx of tourists to the Kurdistan region and travel of citizens to meet their needs."

Talabani pointed out that "the government of the province opened the doors of all departments and ministries before the federal audit teams and provided them with all the necessary data and information, despite our conviction protonism of some procedures."

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New talks between Baghdad and Erbil to resolve the salaries and airports

Sunday 11 March 2018 - 11:00

 

 

 

Officials in Baghdad and Erbil expressed their optimism in resolving the lifting of the ban on airports in the Kurdistan region and the distribution of salaries of employees of the region before the holidays of Nooruz next week.

The political sources said in remarks on Sunday: "The intensive talks held over the past week between the security and political and military committees for Baghdad and Erbil, reached preliminary understandings on the possibility of lifting the ban on airports in Kurdistan and the distribution of salaries of employees of two ministries in the region." 
"The talks were held under pressure from Washington and European countries in the wake of the federal government's decision last month to extend the three-month flight ban, which was met with widespread Kurdish and international resentment." 
She pointed out that the talks included standardization of access between the airports of the province and the rest of the Iraqi airports, and the cancellation of the previous version of the validity of the government of Erbil to grant the attributes of entry into its territory without returning to Baghdad, indicating that Baghdad seeks to the presence of representatives of the intelligence services and security officers at the airports of the region and border crossings . 
She continued: "Baghdad pledged to pay the salaries of employees of ministries of health and education in the region during the next week, to continue sub-committees to check the database of employees of other ministries and official bodies in Kurdistan."   

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The arrival of a Kurdish delegation to Baghdad to receive salaries for three months to three circles in the region

11-03-2018 02:23 PM

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The director of the passports of Sulaymaniyah, on Sunday, the arrival of a delegation of Kurdistan region to Baghdad, to receive salaries of 3 months last year, for employees of directorates of passports and civil status and the national card. 

Salar Abdullah said in a press statement that the visit of the delegation of the Kurdistan region to Baghdad comes at the request of the Ministry of Interior in the federal government. 

Salar added that the visit of the regional delegation to Baghdad, in particular the receipt of salaries for months (October, November and December) for these directorates.

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Moving forward !   Good morning Yota and DV 

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Parliamentary Finance Reveal to / Mawazin News / Deadline for Receipt of the salaries of Kurdistan

 

 Since 2018-03-11 at 15:41 (Baghdad time)

Special - Mawazine News

- The decision of the Finance Committee parliamentary Ahmad Hama Rashid, on Sunday, the date of payment of salaries of officials of the ministries of education and health in the Kurdistan region, noting that Prime Minister Haider Abadi, intends to end all outstanding differences with Baghdad this month.

Rashid told Mawazine News that "Abadi told the Kurdish blocs during his meeting with the committee several days ago his intention to pay the salaries of officials of the Ministries of Education and Health on March 15.

He added that "Baghdad and Erbil continue to audit the names and preparation of employees of other ministries in the Kurdistan region, to be handed over salaries by the Center after the completion of the audit ministries of health and education in the region."

Rashid pointed out that "the central government reached a semi-final agreement with the government of Kurdistan, on the management of airports and border crossings and what will remain during this month to withdraw what was confirmed by Prime Minister Haider Abadi."

Tensions between the governments of Baghdad and Arbil increased after the former provincial president Massoud Barzani held the results of the unconstitutional Kurdistan referendum and sought to annex Kirkuk to the region. This led to orders from the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, Haider al-Abadi.

Massoud Barzani left office on Wednesday (November 1, 2017), leaving his nephew, Nigervan Barzani, "to reconcile with the central government in Baghdad and with neighboring countries and with rival Kurdish parties after the failure of a referendum on independence."

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Talabani: We have implemented all the decisions of Baghdad on airports and wait for Abbadi

 

Sunday 11 March

 

 

 

 

Alsumaria News / Sulaymaniyah Deputy President of the Kurdistan Regional Government , Qubad Talabani, Sunday, that the Kurdistan Regional Government has implemented all commitments regarding the opening of the airports in Erbil and Sulaymaniyah, and expressed hope that executes Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al - Abadi promised the opening of airports in the region before the holiday Nowruz .  Talabani said in a press conference held in Sulaymaniyah and attended by Alsumaria News, "We have carried out all our commitments related to the decisions of the Iraqi government on airports," and expressed the hope that "the implementation of Prime Minister Haider Abadi decision to open airports in the region before the Nawruz holidays."     On the other hand, Talabani said that "we have provided all the necessary information to the Iraqi government on the payrolls of employees and we are waiting for the steps of Baghdad to pay the salaries of employees."  The coalition of democracy and justice, on March 9, 2018, that Prime Minister Haider Abadi pledged to the President of the Alliance Barham Saleh to send salaries of officials of the Ministries of Education and Health in the Kurdistan region soon, indicating that Abadi confirmed that international flights to the airports of the region will resume before Nuruz.  The relationship between the federal government and the Kurdistan region tension after the last referendum on the separation on the twenty-fifth of last September, prompting the head of the central government Haider Abadi to impose several measures, including stopping international flights at Erbil and Sulaymaniyah airports, and to demand the region to hand over border crossings all land.

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If Baghdad pays health, education wages, KRG can manage rest: Talabani

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Deputy Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Region Qubad Talabani speaking to reporters in Sulaimani on March 11, 2018. Photo: Rudaw TV

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – If Baghdad sends the salaries of the health and education ministries, the KRG will be able to manage the wages of the remaining ministries, Deputy KRG Prime Minister Qubad Talabani said on Sunday.

"We hope Mr. Abadi will fulfill the promise he has made regarding sending the salaries of the Kurdistan Region, particularly the two ministries that he and his team have audited," Talabani said of the Iraqi prime minister after attending the inauguration of some infrastructure projects in the city of Sulaimani.

"If he cooperates, as he has pledged, as a responsibility they carry, and carry it out, we will definitely be able to cover the remaining part,” he said.

Baghdad has been auditing the KRG’s civil servant payroll sector-by-sector after it pledged to pay the public sector wages of the cash-strapped Kurdistan Region. Abadi, however, has expressed concern about the KRG’s bloated payroll and corruption, and has instructed that a full audit be done before any monies are distributed. 

Talabani made his comments to the media after attending ceremonies opening two road projects in Sulaimani, the Kobane overpass and the Mamostayan overpass, and the Paralympic Kurdistan building. 

"We are happy to have inaugurated a number of projects at this difficult time," he said, extending his appreciation to those who did not let the economic crisis hamper their work.

The deputy PM, who is a senior member of the Patriotic Union Kurdistan (PUK), briefly addressed the party’s congress, which has been a point of contention within the divided PUK.

The timing is right for the PUK to hold its congress because “the current leadership has expired,” he said. Talabani has been an advocate for bringing more youth into the party.

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Vice President of Kurdistan Regional Government: We hope that Abadi will fulfill his promise to pay the salaries of our employees

 

 

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Announced the deputy head of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Qubad Talabani that the region committed to the provisions of the law and the Constitution on airports and salaries of staff of the region, and attention is directed towards Prime Minister Haider Abadi, to implement the promises and commitments of his government.

Talabani added that the provincial government opened the doors of all departments and ministries in front of the federal audit teams and provided them with all the necessary data and information, announcing a decrease in the territory of the province following the actions of Baghdad taken against the background of the referendum. 

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High-level government delegation to discuss the final touches to a comprehensive agreement in Erbil

March 11, 2018

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The head of the Kurdistan Islamic Group, Ahmad Hama, on Sunday, the anticipation of the arrival of a high-level delegation from the Baghdad government to the Kurdistan region in the coming hours, adding that the delegation will discuss the conclusion of an oil agreement between Baghdad and Erbil after a semi-final agreement on the delivery of airports and ports.

 Hama said in a press statement that "the Kurdistan region awaits the arrival of a high-level government delegation to Erbil and Sulaymaniyah in the coming hours to complete the talks and conclude the final agreement on the sale and marketing of oil."

 He added that "if the delegation succeeded in ending the differences on the sale and marketing of oil in the Kurdistan region, will shed the curtain on the deep crisis between Baghdad and Erbil after the installation of semi-final agreements on salaries of staff of the region and the delivery of airports and border crossings."

Hama said that "the atmosphere is very positive at the moment and encourages the parties to conclude a historic agreement prevents harm to the Kurdish citizen before the parties occupied the elections." ss