Kurds are looking to the future without Iraq and stress: the relationship with Baghdad is not a Catholic marriage

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Arbil / Orr News
In a private school for the elite in Iraqi Kurdistan, children learn Turkish and English language before English. And dreams of university students jobs in Europe, not in Baghdad. And
local businessmen say they do not like working in any other place,
because the areas that fall outside the control of Kurdish security is
stable.
Kurds
directing their attention to Turkey and the West at the expense of
relations with the rest of the country that suffer degradation. Kurdish
leaders say they want to remain part of Iraq, but perhaps driven by
increasingly bitter disputes over oil and land towards secession. And
summarizes Falah Mustafa, head of the Department of Foreign Relations
of the Kurdistan Regional Government, the relationship by saying, "It is
not a sacred bond of marriage must endure."
Kurdish youth, who did not try direct rule Baghdad, wants to break sooner rather than later. He
was born more than half of the region's population, totaling 5.3
million, after 1991 when it was imposing a no-fly zone led Western,
making the rule of Kurds possible for the first time by protecting the
region from Saddam Hussein. And
confirms students at the University of Ceyhan in Erbil they feel that
they are Kurds, not Iraqi, and that corruption was rampant in Iraq and
sectarian violence and political stalemate hinder progress of the
Kurdistan region. Blend
Azad says, architecture student of 20 years: "I want to see an
independent Kurdistan .. if we have been with them, Fsnsubh in a bad
situation like them will become free."
According to a lengthy report to the Agency "Associated Press", the region has seen a major shift over the past decade. The
capital Arbil someday look like a big village, but today it has become a
city with 1.3 million inhabitants, and began skyscrapers and five-star
hotels appear, and construction cranes began running the horizon. Turning
elite riding modern sports cars to large houses in new urban
communities that bear the names have signed Western such as "English
village". And puts Erbil Airport shiny glass and metal Baghdad in an embarrassing situation. The number of hotels to 234, according to the governor Nawzad Hadi. It boasts Minister of Planning Ali Sindi, great retreat of illiteracy, poverty and unemployment rate during the past few years.
However,
the Kurds have a lot of work, where the region needs to spend more than
$ 30 billion in highway construction, schools and other necessary forms
of infrastructure over the next decade, he explains Cindy. And
there are strong feelings of discontent simmering beneath the surface
amid fears of concentration of power in the hands of a few individuals. Opposition
activists complain of government corruption, and said the organization
"Human Rights Watch" The security forces arbitrarily arrested 50
journalists, activists and opposition in 2012.
While
the central government has the authority to make the decision in
relation to oil, Kurds say that to be entitled to their own energy
policy, and accuse the government of stalling in negotiating a new deal
for a sharing of oil revenues. The
Kurds approved their own energy law and signed more than 50 agreement
with foreign oil companies, offering better terms from Baghdad. The
company started "Genel Energy" which works in the field of oil in the
region Kurdish oil trucking to Turkey during the month of January
(January). And
enjoys direct pipeline to be built of great strategic importance in the
words of the Blue, a senior Kurdish official in the oil. Blu wondered, saying: "Why create this line? Because we always face problems with Baghdad."
The
project highlights the increasing presence of Turkey in the region,
which represents a dramatic change from the past few years which
witnessed tension in relations, against the backdrop of fighting Ankara
PKK elements. Has established the need for each party to another new relationship. Turkey
needs more oil to run its economy, which is expanding and prefer to buy
oil from the Kurds to buy it from the government in Baghdad, where you
see part of the axis of which is subject to opposing Iranian influence
in the region. On the other hand, needs the Kurds to Turkey not only as an outlet for the export of oil, but also as a trading partner. And about half of the foreign companies working here almost, numbering 1,900 Turkish companies, as officials make clear. Also found that 70% of the annual Turkey trade with Iraq, which is estimated at $ 15 million, is with the Kurdistan region. In
a sign of distinctive function of the status quo, are Turkish and
English are the working languages ​​of teaching in high-level private
school in Erbil. The
students began, totaling 351 students, studying the Kurdish language,
which is the mother tongue of most of the students in the third grade. Arabic was introduced later, in the fourth row. The
curriculum reflects the priorities of the founder of the school,
belonging to the Turkmen minority, but also complies with Kurdish
parents who believe that their children's future is linked to Turkey.
As problems with the heats of Baghdad, Kurdish officials say the secession of the region from Iraq is inevitable. Many
dreams here the establishment of an independent Kurdish state,
including parts of Syria, Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and be home to more than
25 million Kurds. Mustafa says, external relations officer: "as a people, we deserve it. Want to see this in our lifetime." But
in light of opposition to key allies such as the United States and
Turkey to the idea of dividing Iraq, Kurds say they will not act rashly
or stubbornly. Asked
if the Kurdistan region will declare independence soon being able to
export oil directly, Mustafa replied: "I will express that bridge when
the blade."






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