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Within 25 years or less, Kurds may lose
majority in Iraqi Kurdistan region
16.8.2010
By Abdul-Rahman Sidiq |
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August
16, 2010
ERBIL-Hewlêr,
Kurdistan region 'Iraq', — Due to the stability and
security situation of Kurdistan as well as the Law
of Investment the region has, hundreds of foreigners
and Arabs from the south and middle of Iraq have
come and are increasingly coming to Kurdistan as job
seekers.
Most of them, particularly Iraqi Arabs, have
preferred to stay and permanently live here.
It seems that there is a political reason behind
this process. If there is, or not, we would have the
same destiny of the Gulf countries to which many
foreigners have migrated and become citizens of
those countries.
According to the statistics provided by the
Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf
the populations of Gulf countries are expected to be
as following in 25 years’ time:
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In the UAE: 80% are
foreigners and 20% native.
In Qatar: 75% are foreigners and 25% native.
In Kuwait: 52% are foreigners and 48% are native.
In Bahrain: 33% are foreigners and 67% native.
In Saudi Arabia: 20% are foreigner and 80% native.
In Oman: 18% are foreigners and 82% native.
After 25 years or less, there will likely be a
similar result in Kurdistan, and in turn the
following problems:
1. Demographical dangers: decreasing the size of the
native population of the Kurdistan Region
2. Political dangers: establishing Arabic political
organizations changing the balance of voting in the
elections in disfavor of the Kurds.
3. Social dangers, increasing the rate of crime,
kidnapping and killing, as the size of population
increases.
4. Cultural danger, disappearing traditional Kurdish
customs.
5. Ethnical dangers, the emergence of other strong
ethnic groups threatening the dominance of ethnic
Kurds.
6. Health dangers, increasing prostitutions and
dealings with drugs and then appearing some diseases
such as HIV.
7. Political requirements by Arabs and other
foreigners would lead to tensions.
Abdul-Rahman Sidiq is the director of Prd Center
for strategic studies and research.
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