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A vendor displays material used for traditional Kurdish costumes at a market on February 23, 2014 in Erbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq. (AFP Photo/Safin Hamed)
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 18, 2014 | Business
Erbil, Reuters—Rizgar pulled one of his wife’s bracelets from his pocket and laid it on a gold merchant’s counter in Iraq’s Kurdistan region at the weekend, reluctantly selling it to cover his bills. The electricity ministry in Kurdistan had not paid...