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		<title>New Day for the Kurds: Will Ocalan&#8217;s Declaration Bring Peace With Turkey?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Newroz means “new day” in Kurdish, and traditionally it was a great celebration heralding the start of spring for the Kurdish people. Because of its centrality in that culture, the government of Turkey banned ethnic Kurds from celebrating it for decades — and so the beginning of spring was often marked by street battles and bloodshed, as Kurds used the holiday to protest for their rights and to assert their identity. But this Newroz is different. On Thursday, tens of thousands of people decked out in the bright Kurdish colors of red, yellow and green, gathered in Diyarbakir, regional capital of southeast Turkey. Something indeed felt “new.” The police did not intervene. There was no tear gas. People sang Kurdish songs and built the traditional Newroz bonfires. National TV channels broadcast the celebrations. To cap it all, Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed Kurdish rebel leader, called on the fighters of his Kurdish Workers&#8217; Party (PKK) to withdraw from Turkey, signaling an end to a 30-year conflict that has cost some 40,000 lives and left a vast chunk of the country mired in poverty. (MORE: Kurdish Rebel Leader Declares Cease-Fire) &#8220;Let guns be silenced and politics dominate,&#8221; Ocalan said in a statement read out in Diyarbakir by a pro-Kurdish politician. The crowd cheered and waved banners carrying the imprisoned leader’s mustachioed portrait. &#8220;The stage has been reached where our armed forces should withdraw beyond the borders &#8230; It&#8217;s not the end. It&#8217;s the start of a new era.&#8221; Ocalan’s message marks a new stage in negotiations with the Turkish state that began late December. PKK fighters are expected to withdraw to the mountains of north Iraq, where the group is based. That region is governed by an autonomous Kurdish government with good ties to Ankara — a major investor in its economy — that is keen to see the conflict end. For his part, Turkey’s tough-talking Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has thrown his political weight behind the process. &#8220;If guns are put down, military operations will cease,&#8221; he said in response to Ocalan’s<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=76983&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Demonstrators hold Kurdish flags and portraits of jailed Kurdistan Workers Party leader Abdullah Ocalan during a gathering to celebrate Newroz in the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir on March 21, 2013.</media:title>
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		<title>Destination Kurdistan: Is This Autonomous Iraqi Region a Budding Tourist Hot Spot?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2012 19:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small / Rwanduz, Iraq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s hard to image any tourists wanting to visit Iraq these days. “The Department of State warns U.S. citizens against all but essential travel to Iraq given the security situation,” reads the latest U.S. warning from last August. “Travel within Iraq remains dangerous.” (Other countries have issued similar advisories.) But if you read on, you’ll notice a caveat to in the State Department&#8217;s warning: “The security situation in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region (IKR), which includes the governorates of Sulymaniya, Erbil, and Dohuk, has been more stable relative to the rest of Iraq in recent years,” it says. “There have been significantly fewer terrorist attacks and lower levels of insurgent violence in the IKR than in other parts of Iraq.” (PHOTOS: Syrian Kurds Find Refuge in an Erstwhile Homeland) Kurdistan in northern Iraq — an autonomous region that retains a considerable amount of political freedom from Baghdad — is by far the safest and most accessible area of Iraq to visit. Unlike the rest of Iraq, tourists can wander bazaars freely. Hotels — and homes and businesses — don’t suddenly lose power for unpredictable amounts of time. There are malls and five-star luxury hotels, spas and historical spots like Erbil’s ancient Citadel, a UNESCO World Heritage site. In fact, Erbil has been named the Arab Council of Tourism’s 2014 tourism capital. “We have an ambition to be an international, worldwide destination by 2015,” says Mawlawi Jabar Wahab, head of Kurdistan’s General Board of Tourism. “We never thought our ambitions could be so big.” Iraqi Kurdistan has come a long way very quickly. In 2007 it had just 106 hotels, and it now boasts more than 400. They’ve built a $400 million state-of-the-art airport in Erbil and two others across Kurdistan. Marriott is building a massive complex in Erbil called the Empire that will include a five-star hotel, a condo village and a go-cart track. Hilton, Kempinski and Sheraton are also building hotels. In 2013, Kurdistan expects to bring in $1 billion in tourism revenues and hopes to quintuple that number in just<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=61735&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Syrian Kurds Find Refuge in an Erstwhile Homeland</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2012 21:13:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tens of thousands of Syrian Kurds have fled their country&#8217;s brutal and increasingly sectarian civil war for refuge across the border in the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan. The conditions at the Domiz camp may be squalid, but many of the Kurdish refugees have found new hope—having left a fractured nation—in the elusive promise of a new home.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=61506&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fleeing Civil War, Syria&#8217;s Kurds Enter Another Geopolitical Minefield</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2012 16:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small / Dohuk, Iraq</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Samira Selo cradled her 2-year-old on her hip and looked across the low valley toward Syria, a country that until a month ago she called home. Some sheep and goats grazed nearby. Behind her, in the old tiny tent she, her husband and three kids call home, her family’s possessions were rolled up under two thin mattresses still damp from a week’s worth of rain. The floor of her tent was mud, the same mud that formed, often knee-deep, every lane zigzagging through the Domiz refugee camp in the north of Iraqi Kurdistan. It is never easy being the new arrivals, especially in a refugee camp like this one, where resources have been stretched beyond their limits as more and more Syrian Kurds pour across the border each day. “Two weeks ago we had 35,000,” says Iraqi Kurdish Foreign Minister Falah Mustafa Bakir. Before Christmas they topped 60,000. Selo, 28, and her family fled Damascus in November “as the massacre was getting too close.” But they have found life on the fringes of this mushrooming refugee camp extremely difficult. The Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), which oversees the camp, ran out of tents before they got there. They borrowed their hand-me-down one from a friend but can’t afford to buy a nicer one; used UNHCR tents are going on the black market for hundreds of dollars, says Selo. When it rains — and in Iraq in the winter it rains constantly — they and everything they own get soaked. Their kids have developed colds, and the weather is about to turn frosty, something that scares Selo even more than the damp. (MORE: Syria’s Kurds: Civil Wars Within a Civil War) They could have gone to Jordan, which is much closer to Damascus, but as Kurds, they felt it was safer with their ethnic compatriots, even if it meant driving all the way across war-torn Syria. Almost all the Syrian refugees that Iraq has accepted are Kurds into Iraqi Kurdistan, a semiautonomous state in the north that exercises<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=61233&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">image: Displaced Kurdish refugees from Syria at the Domiz camp near Dohuk, Iraq on Dec. 10, 2012.</media:title>
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