Category: Opinion

Rokan Mohammed Ahmed – Activist More than two years have passed since the elections were held, yet what remains absent in the Kurdistan Region is respect for the people’s vote…

Daryan Saman – Activist The salaries of public employees in the Kurdistan Region, which are both a constitutional entitlement and a legitimate financial right, have been turned into the greatest…

Akam Abdullah Sdiq Once again, a new government has made the astonishing and unprecedented discovery that corruption exists. Like a tiresome play that is repeated every four years, Prime Minister…

Jihad Omer Ahmed Behind every news report exposing corruption, two stories are hidden. The first is the one those in power always want to tell loudly: the story of the…

In every democracy around the world, Parliament is expected to represent the voice of the people, create laws, and hold the government accountable. However, when it is unable to fulfil…

Serbaz Fariq Ahmed Any society that considers itself committed to the rule of law and justice must regard the protection of its citizens’ lives as one of its most important…

Khalid Omar Mustafa – Activist After the historic Kurdish uprising of 1991 in Southern Kurdistan, and following the establishment of both the Kurdistan Parliament and the Kurdistan Regional Government –…

Baran Ghafar Ahmed – Activist In reality, the system of governance in the Kurdistan Region has long been dominated by two major political families: the Barzani family through the Kurdistan…

Ranj Bakhtyar Saeed – Activist Sardasht Osman: Victim of a Free Pen: Sardasht Osman was a Kurdish journalist and student who was kidnapped in Erbil on May 4, 2010, and…

Farman Mohammed Haji – Activist The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), through a partisan decision, reached an agreement with the Turkmen Front in Kirkuk to hand the governorship of Kirkuk…