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In this section you can find news articles, statements, and publications about the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

March 25, 2015

Panel discussion in Vienna on the topic of genocide in Kurdistan-Iraq

On Tuesday, 17 March 2015, a panel discussion concerning the topic “Revisiting, Recognizing and Preventing Genocide: Past and Present in Kurdistan-Iraq” took place at the Diplomatic Academy
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March 24, 2015

Movie screening in De France Cinema: Halabja – The Lost Children

On Monday, 16 March 2015, a movie screening took place in the De France cinema in Vienna on the occasion of the 27th commemoration of the poison gas attacks on Kurdish-Iraqi town of Halabja. The movie which was screened was the award winning documentary “Halabja – The Lost Children”. The thrilling documentation tells the story…
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March 19, 2015

ORF-online: refugee schools in Kurdistan Region

Since August 2014 “Un Ponte Per” – an Italian partner organization of Caritas Austria – has opened five schools for refugees in the Kurdistan Region-Iraq. The schools
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March 12, 2015

President Barzani and Deputy Prime Minister Talabani welcome Turkey’s Minister of Defence

On Thursday, 5 March 2015, Minister of National Defence of Turkey İsmet Yılmaz was welcomed in Erbil by the President of the Kurdistan Region, Masoud Barzani. At both meetings Yılmaz reiterated the importance of the ongoing cooperation between Turkey
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March 6, 2015

Prime Minister Barzani visits Rome and the Vatican

In the past week, Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani and an accompanying delegation visited Rome and the Vatican and was received by Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni, His Holiness Pope Francis, and the Vatican Foreign Minister Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher. In his meeting with Prime Minister Renzi, Prime Minister Barzani expressed…
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February 27, 2015

Kurdistan Review: Kurdistan has all the necessary ingredients to attract foreign investment

“I believe Kurdistan has all the necessary ingredients to attract foreign investment. I would like to reassure everyone that there will be no place for terrorists to operate in Kurdistan”, President Masoud Barzani told the Kurdistan Review, a publication launched in February.
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February 24, 2015

Successful clothing drive for refugees and IDPs in the Kurdistan Region

On the weekend of 7 and 8 February, the KRG Representation Austria in cooperation with the Austro-Kurdish Youth-Initiative organized a clothing drive for refugees in the Kurdistan Region. The willingness to donate was huge, in total more than 1000 boxes with clothing, diapers, toys, blankets, and bed sheets were packed and prepared to be transported…
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February 24, 2015

ORF photo report on the everyday life of refugees in the Kurdistan Region

A photo report of Austrian ORF portays the situation of many refugees in the Kurdistan Region-Iraq: Having fled from the terror militia Islamic State (IS), more than one million people found refuge in the autonomous Kurdistan Region. Despite bordering an area which is under siege by the jihadists, the northern Iraqi region still constitutes a…
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