AL-MONITOR | Author Amberin Zaman | Posted March 22, 2016

ERBIL, Iraq — These are critical times in the quasi-independent Kurdish entity in Iraq better known as the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, or simply Iraqi Kurdistan. Buoyed by a burgeoning energy sector, its leaders loved to boast that Kurdistan was going to be the “new Dubai.” Today its economy is collapsing, and so are its spirits.

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The Kurds’ Push for Self-Rule in Syria

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Parts of Diyarbakir, the de facto capital of Turkey's Kurdish regions, have been under a Turkish army imposed curfew for two months now. Tom Stevenson reports from a destroyed city under siege.

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Death and destruction in Diyarbakir

Parts of Diyarbakir, the de facto capital of Turkey's Kurdish regions, have been under a Turkish army imposed curfew for two months now. Tom Stevenson reports from a destroyed city under siege.

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Undoing Years of Progress in Turkey

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The U.S. and the E.U. have mistakenly deemed refugees and Syria more important than Turkish democracy.

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Just a few short years ago, Turkey was heralded as one of the region's rising powers. What happened?

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Jean-Marc AYRAULT, former Prime Minister, Anne HIDALGO, Mayor of Paris, Bernard KOUCHNER, former Foreign Minister, Bruno LE ROUX, President of the Socialist Group in the French National Assembly, Hubert VÉDRINE, former Foreign Minister

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