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Employees of the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) take part in vote counting at an analysis centre in Erbil, capital of the autonomous Kurdistan region, about 230 miles north of Baghdad, on September 22, 2013. (REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani)
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An Iraqi Kurd woman casts her vote into a ballot box during regional parliamentary elections at a polling station in Erbil, capital of the autonomous Kurdistan region, about 350 km (217 miles) north of Baghdad, September 21, 2013. (Reuters)
Iraqi Kurds head to the polls
Suleimaniyah, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iraq’s Kurds went to the polls on Saturday to vote for a new parliament, with analysts expecting the results to produce a massive upheaval in the makeup of the Kurdistan Region Government (KRG). These are the first parliamentary elections...Caption:
A member of the Kurdish Peshmerga battalions shows his ink-stained finger after voting at a polling station in the northern Kurdish city of Sulaimaniyah on September 19, 2013, in the region’s legislative elections. (AFP)
Kurds prepare for elections as campaigning ends
Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—With the election campaign in Kurdistan drawing to an end on Thursday, a decision by the election commission in Suleimaniyah to allow journalists to cover only six polling stations has raised concerns. Parliamentary elections are set to take...Caption:
A picture taken on September 12, 2013 shows an Iraqi Kurdish man walking past electoral campaign posters of candidates running in the Kurdistan parliament election, in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil. (AFP)
Kurdistan: PUK rallies support as elections approach
Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), led by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, has sought to rally support as the Kurdistan Region Government (KRG) elections enter its final week. The PUK named the final week of election campaigning the...Caption:
Some thousands of supporters demonstrate waving various PKK flags and posters of jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan, in southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir, Turkey, Thursday, March 21, 2013, as Ocalan called Thursday for an immediate cease-fire and for thousands of his fighters to withdraw from Turkish territory. (AP Photo)