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Kurdistan Region-Iraq News in brief
24.10.2006
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Sulaimaniyah,
Erbil, Duhok, Kirkuk, Kurdistan Region (Iraq), October
24,
2006
Turkey returns illegal Kurdish immigrants
Every year hundreds of Kurds illegally leave the
country heading for European destinations.
A security source in the northern town of Zakho,
near Turkish border, stated that Turkish security
forces in the province of Hakari have arrested 120
Kurds from the Kurdistan Region who entered Turkish
territories illegally, a Kurdish paper reported last
week.
The source stated that the majority of such
immigrants were from the northern Duhok governorate,
and some of them were women and children.
"For the period of this year, Turkish security
forces have detained more than 8,000 illegal
immigrants on the borders with Iraq, Greece, and
Bulgaria," said the security director of the Turkish
Adana governorate in a press conference.
Every year hundreds of Kurds illegally leave the
country heading for European destinations.
Changes made to Article 140 execution committee
Changes are in store for the execution committee of
Article 140.
Changes are in store for the execution committee of
Article 140, the crucial article in the permanent
Iraqi constitution related to the normalization of
Kirkuk's situation, local media reported last week.
"Based on an announcement by the Iraqi Councils of
Ministers, the constituents of the Article 140
execution committee will undergo some
modifications," said Kakarash Sidiq, member of the
article 140 high commission and Head of the
article's execution committee in Kirkuk. "
Ahmed Barak, who is chief of the property-claims
panel, has become a member of the high commission
committee; Jasim Mohamed Jaafar has become
individual representative of the Iraqi PM in the
commission; and an Iraqi Turkumani Front member,
Anwar Mohamed Bairaqdar, will become a member of the
high commission," said Sidiq.
Regarding the budget of the committee, which is $200
million, Sidiq said, "The chief of the committee has
decided that the budget will be in the form of
instalments paid by the Iraqi Finance Ministry; and
we have called upon the budget to be remunerated in
four separate payments."
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