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The Iraqi Federation: Origin, Operation and Significance [PDF]
, 2014 The study is about federalism in Iraq. It examines Iraq as a federation not just as a post-conflict state, as much of the existing literature does. The thesis investigates the origin and formation of the Iraqi federation, as one of the new federal models,
Shakir, Farah
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Iraqi Kurdistan Independence Aspirations and the Neo-Ottomanist Turkish
, 2018 Traditionally and historically, modern Turkey has always been against the idea of an independent Kurdistan in northern Iraq due to a fear of a spillover effect among Turkey’s own Kurdish population.
Tugdar E.E., Al, Serhun
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Does Islamic Religiosity Constrain Liberal Democratic Attitudes?
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The relationship between Islam and democracy remains contested. Although some scholars argue that the two are inherently incompatible, others maintain that they can coexist harmoniously. Although the existing literature includes a growing number of empirical studies testing these competing claims, many are constrained by limitations in data ...
Zeki Sarigil
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Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how the reconstruction of Shanidar Z, a 75,000‐year‐old Neanderthal woman discovered in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, became a focal point for digital negotiations of identity, ancestry, and belonging. Drawing on 51 Facebook and YouTube posts and 17,126 associated comments in Kurdish, Arabic and English, the study ...
Dana Sofi
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Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines why the Kurdish Freedom Movement has adopted ecological struggle as a foundational pillar in its politics of decolonisation and the reclamation of autonomy. Framed within the context of colonial and ecocidal developmentalism, the research analyses how policies initiated during the Ottoman Empire and perpetuated by Turkish
Necmettin Türk
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Humanitarian Aid in Iraqi Kurdistan
, 2000 Michel Leezenberg, «Humanitarian Aid in Iraqi Kurdistan», pp 31-48. Humanitarian aid has been an important economic and political factor in Iraqi Kurdistan, but it has had unforeseeable, and at times even paradoxical, effects ; to some extent, it has ...
Leezenberg, M.M.; id_orcid +3 more
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Health Science Reports, Volume 9, Issue 10, October 2026.ABSTRACT Background and Aims Venipuncture and cannulation are common yet distressing procedures for children in healthcare settings. While both are known to cause significant pain and fear, prior research has examined them in isolation, leaving a critical gap: no study has directly compared the distress profiles of these two procedures.
Sherzad Khudeida Suleman +3 more
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Health Science Reports, Volume 9, Issue 10, October 2026.ABSTRACT Background Gait impairment in Parkinson's disease (PD) is multifactorial and may become more pronounced under perceptual–cognitive challenge. Virtual reality (VR) provides an altered locomotor context, yet its effects on both conventional magnitude‐based Center of pressure (CoP) metrics and higher‐order structural organization remain unclear ...
Elaheh Azadian +4 more
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Iraqi Kurdistan – the beginning of a new crisis in the Middle East? OSW COMMENTARY No. 247, 2017-08-08 [PDF]
, 2017 Against the backdrop of the ongoing dismantling of Islamic State (IS) and the preparations for the independence referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan scheduled for 25 September, Iraq as a whole is facing a new conflict which is likely to result in a thorough ...
Strachota, Krzysztof, Lang, Józef
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, 2015 The Italian Archaeological Mission in Iraqi Kurdistan (MAIKI) of the Department of Classics of Sapienza – University of Rome, directed by prof. Maria Vittoria Fontana and dr.
Colliva L, Bogdani J, Insom C
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