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Housing Land & Property Issues
HOUSING LAND & PROPERTY ISSUES AMONG IDPs SETTLED IN BASRA, DOHUK, ERBIL & BAGHDAD QUICK ASSESSMENT REPORT – DRAFT 13 November 2014 The purpose of the rapid Housing, Land and Property (HLP) survey, initiated by UN-Habitat among internally displaced people (IDPs) currently living in five key Iraqi cities, is to collect indicative data on land tenure status of the displaced and improving our understanding of issues related to the possible return of IDPs to their former properties. The data collection was undertaken between September and November 2014 by UN-Habitat staff in collaboration with local partners and community representatives, on the basis of a purposely-developed questionnaire. The present report focuses on information captured from 774 IDPs households currently living in Basra, Dohuk, Erbil, Baghdad, respectively the capitals of the Basra, Dohuk, Erbil and Baghdad governorates.1 The surveys were conducted in IDPs camp, planned and unplanned urban areas, hotels and churches. These locations were selected for the presence of large numbers of displaced, accessibility by local partners and took into consideration the geographic and ethnical diversity of respondents. KEY SURVEY FINDINGS Provenance of IDPs : The large majority of the IDPs interviewed for this survey has abandoned properties in the northern Governorate of Ninawa, namely the towns of Al-Hamdaniya, Mosul and Tilkef; followed by the Governorates of Anbar, Diyala, Salah El-den, Kirkuk, Baghdad and Al-Hilla. Figure 1 below provides a breakdown by Governorate. It should be noted that many of those that fled the sectarian clashes affecting the Governorate of Ninawa are Christian minorities, some of which had sought refuge in the Nineveh plains 2 and for whom the present location is therefore not their first displacement. -
Kuzey Suriye'deki Türkmen Yerleşimlerinin Çağdaş
AŞT I AR IRM AS A Y LA N R Ü I D 2019 / K EYLÜL - EKİM T ABDULHALİK BAKIR - SÜLEYMAN PEKİN R D Ü CİLT: 123 SAYI: 242 A T KUZEY SURİYE’DEKİ TÜRKMEN YERLEŞİMLERİ SAYFA: 89-130 Türk Dünyası Araştırmaları Eylül - Ekim 2019 TDA Cilt: 123 Sayı: 242 Sayfa: 89-130 Makale Türü: Araştırma Geliş Tarihi: 15.07.2019 Kabul Tarihi: 16.09.2019 KUZEY SURİYE’DEKİ TÜRKMEN YERLEŞİMLERİNİN ÇAĞDAŞ TARİHİ VE STRATEJİK ALTYAPISI ÜZERİNE GENEL BİR DEĞERLENDİRME Prof. Dr. Abdulhalik BAKIR* - Süleyman PEKİN** Öz ‘Coğrafya kaderdir’ deniyor ve bu kader Ortadoğu’da sınırlarla birlikte sık sık değişiyor. 2011 yılından buna dahil olan Suriye’nin özellikle Kuzey kıs- mındaki dil, mezhep ve etnik çeşitlilik Küresel ve Bölgesel Güçlerin rekabetine payanda olmuş durumda. Suriye Devleti’nin resmî idarî yapısındaki 14 vilaye- tin Kuzey Suriye’yi oluşturan 5’inde (Halep, Haseki, Rakka, İdlip ve Lazkiye) bu güçlerin ve buna bağlı olarak farklı grupların mücadeleleri sürmektedir. Bu gruplardan biri ve tarihî açıdan en köklü olanlardan Türkmenlerin bölge üze- rinde yaygın bir yerleşimi söz konusudur. Modern zaman olarak son yüzyıllık periyot içerisinde Millî Mücadele ve Manda, Bağımsızlık ve Baas (Esadlar), İç Savaş ve Tükmenler dönemleriyle Kuzey Suriye’deki Türkmen yerleşim yerlerinin çağdaş tarihini bu makalede ana hatlarıyla incelemeye çalıştık. Yine aynı şekilde Türkmen yerleşimlerinin stratejik alt yapısını da Nüfus ve Nüfuz Etkinlikleri ile Toplumsal Arkaplan çer- çevesinde ele alarak genel bir değerlendirmede bulunduk. Sonuç olarak hem Kuzey Suriye’nin hem de Türkmenlerin Türkiye için önemi artarak sürmektedir. Anahtar kelimeler: Türkmen, Kuzey Suriye, İç Savaş, Esad, Sınırlar, Kimlik, Federasyon. A General Evaluation On The Contemporary History And Strategic Infrastructure Of Turkmen Settlements In North Syria Abstract It is called ‘geography is destiny’ and this fate changes frequently with the borders in the Middle East. -
Border Contestations, Syrian Refugees and Violence in the Southeastern Margins of Turkey
Border Contestations, Syrian Refugees and Violence in the Southeastern Margins of Turkey H. PINAR ¸SENOGUZˇ Abstract: Although the tensions and conflicts between the local population and the refugees at the border regions do erupt at times, they are by no means the immediate consequences of the encounters among locals and refugees. Rather, they are mediated by the ways in which the emergency and societal responses to the ›refugee crisis‹ are politically deployed and discursively narrated. Drawing on Walters’ distinction between three historically different trajectories of territorial borders, namely ›geopolitical borders,‹ ›national borders,‹ and ›biopolitical borders,‹ this paper argues that the emergency and so- cietal responses to the Syrian refugees at the Syrian-Turkish border express the trajectory of Turkish-Syrian border as a geopolitical and national border. Focusing on the contes- tations among Turkish citizens, Syrian refugees and local authorities in the context of refugee reception in the border city of Gaziantep, the paper demonstrates that ›geopolit- ical‹ and ›national‹ borders in southeastern Turkey should not be conceived of as being firmly in place. Rather, they are quickly upended by nationalist violence and transborder ethnic ties, compelling state authorities to seek stability and assimilation among the border populations. Keywords: Syrian refugees, Turkish-Syrian border, geopolitical border, national border, border and migration control, local conflicts In the context of emergencies, borderlands are very often the first regions to turn into temporary sanctuaries for fleeing refugees. Borderlands therefore allow researchers to instantly observe early states of emergency and societal responses as well as the conflicts erupting from the discourses, ideologies, and practices underlying these re- sponses. -
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TURKEY Zakho Amedi Total Families: 27,209 TURKEY Zakho Amedi TURKEY Total Families: 113,999 DAHUK Mergasur DAHUK Mergasur Dahuk Sumel 1 Sumel Dahuk 1 Soran Individual : 163,254 Soran Individuals : 683,994 DTM Al-Shikhan Akre Al-Shikhan Akre Tel afar Choman Telafar Choman Tilkaif Tilkaif Shaqlawa Shaqlawa Al-Hamdaniya Rania Al-Hamdaniya Rania Sinjar Pshdar Sinjar Pshdar ERBIL ERBIL DASHBOARD Erbil Erbil Mosul Koisnjaq Mosul Koisnjaq NINEWA Dokan NINEWA Dokan Makhmur Sharbazher Penjwin Makhmur Sharbazher Penjwin Dabes Dabes IRAQ IDP CRISIS Al-Ba'aj SULAYMANIYAH Al-Ba'aj SULAYMANIYAH Hatra Al-Shirqat Kirkuk Hatra Al-Shirqat Kirkuk Sulaymaniya Sulaymaniya KIRKUK KIRKUK Al-Hawiga Chamchamal Al-Hawiga Chamchamal DarbandihkanHalabja SYRIA Darbandihkan SYRIA Daquq Daquq Halabja SHELTER GROUP Kalar Kalar Baiji Baiji Tooz Tooz BY DISPLACEMENT FLOW Ra'ua Tikrit SYRIA Ra'ua Tikrit Kifri Kifri January to December 9, 2014 SALAH AL-DIN Haditha Haditha SALAH AL-DIN Samarra Al-Daur Khanaqin Samarra Al-Daur Khanaqin Al-Ka'im Al-Ka'im Al-Thethar Al-Khalis Al-Thethar Al-Khalis % OF FAMILIES BY SHELTER TYPE AS OF: DIYALA DIYALA Ana Balad Ana Balad IRAN Al-Muqdadiya IRAN Al-Muqdadiya IRAN Heet Al-Fares Heet Al-Fares Tar m ia Tarm ia Ba'quba Ba'quba Adhamia Baladrooz Adhamia Baladrooz Kadhimia Kadhimia JANUARY TO MAY CRISIS KarkhAl Resafa Ramadi Ramadi KarkhAl Resafa 1 Abu Ghraib Abu Ghraib BAGHDADMada'in BAGHDADMada'in ANBAR Falluja ANBAR Falluja Mahmoudiya Mahmoudiya Badra Badra 2% 1% Al-Azezia Al-Azezia Al-Suwaira Al-Suwaira Al-Musayab Al-Musayab 21% Al-Mahawil -
Mosul Response Dashboard 20 Aug 2017
UNHCR Mosul Emergency Response Since October 2016 23 August 2017 UNHCR Co-coordinated Clusters: 1,089,564 displaced since 17 October 2016 Camp/Site Plots Tents Complete + of whom 838,608 are NFI Kits WƌŽƚĞĐƟŽŶ ƐƟůůĐƵƌƌĞŶƚůLJĚŝƐƉůĂĐĞĚ & ;ŽͲĐŽŽƌĚŝŶĂƚĞĚďLJhE,ZΘZͿ Targets:44,000 60,000 87,500 ƐƐŝƐƚĞĚďLJhE,Z KĐĐƵƉŝĞĚ DistribƵted 8,931 10,586 SŚĞůƚĞƌΘE&/ 8,931 3,360 (Co-coordinated ďLJhE,ZΘEZͿ 454,098 144,703 20,576 16,849 ( 17,294 16,398 ŝŶĚŝǀŝĚƵĂůƐ ŝŶĚŝǀŝĚƵĂůƐ Developed Plots Available assisted assisted Camp ŽŽƌĚŝŶĂƟŽŶΘ 34,671 73,554 ĂŵƉDĂŶĂŐĞŵĞŶƚ in camps ŽƵƚŽĨĐĂŵƉƐ 6,187 34,220 /ŶĐůƵĚĞƐĐŽŶŇŝĐƚͲĂīĞĐƚĞĚ EĞǁƌĞƋƵŝƌĞŵĞŶƚƐ EĞǁƌĞƋƵŝƌĞŵĞŶƚƐ ! ;ŽͲĐŽŽƌĚŝŶĂƚĞĚďLJhE,ZΘ/KDͿ ƉŽƉƵůĂƟŽŶǁŚŽǁĞƌĞ ŶĞǀĞƌĚŝƐƉůĂĐĞĚ in 2017 in 2017 Derkar dhZ<z Batifa 20km UNHCR Protection Monitoring for Mosul Response Zakho Amadiya Amedi Soran Mergasur Dahuk Ü 47,478 HHs Assessed Sumel Dahuk ^zZ/EZ 212,978 IndividƵals ZWh>/ DAHUK Akre Choman Mosul Dam Lake Shikhan Soran Choman Amalla ISLADIC Mosul Dam Nargizlia 1 B Nargizlia 2 ZEPUBLIC Tilkaif B Telafar Zelikan (n(new) OF IZAN QaymawaQ (Zelikan) B Shaqlawa 58,954 60,881 48,170 44,973 NINEWA HamdaniyaHdHamdaddaa iyaiyyay Al Hol HasanshamHaasasanshams U2 campp MosulMosuMosMooosssuulul HasanshamHasansham U3 Rania BartellaBartelllalaB B Pshdar Mosul BBBHhM2Hasanshamaanshnnssh M2 KhazerKhazehaha M1 Plots in UNHCR Constructed Camps Sinjar BChamakorChamakor As Salamiyah S y Erbil Hammamammama Al-AlilAlil 2 Al Salamiyah 2 DUKAN Occupied Plots Developed Plots Undeveloped Plots BB B RESERVOIR HammamHammH AAlAl-Alil Alil Erbil B Al ^alamiyaŚ -
MPLS VPN Service
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The Martyrs St
November 1st, 2015 1st Sunday of the Church SAINTS OF THE WEEK SPECIAL EDITION: THE MARTYRS ST. ISAAC OF NINEVEH Father Ragheed Ganni was a Chaldean priest who was studying at the Irish College when the US invaded Iraq. He asked his bishop for permission to return to be with his people, and afterwards, he had received many death threats. In 2007, after the evening liturgy in Mosul’s Holy Spirit Chaldean Church, Father Ragheed was leaving together with three subdeacons. His car was stopped by gun men, although he was smiling, laughing, and trying to He was born in the region of engage with them. They said they will teach him to Beth Qatraye in Eastern Arabia. laugh and cut him in half with machine gun fire. He When still quite young, he was martyred along with the three subdeacons. entered a monastery where he devoted his energies towards the At the time of this murder, Father Ragheed was practice of asceticism. After secretary to Paolos Faraj Rahho, the archbishop of many years of studying at the library attached to the Mosul. Bishop Rahho was murdered only nine monastery, he emerged as an months after Father Ragheed in the same city of authoritative figure in theology. Mosul. The Chaldean Church immediately mourned Shortly after, he dedicated his them as martyrs, and Pope Benedict XVI life to monasticism and became immediately prayed for them from Rome. involved in religious education throughout the Beth Qatraye Sister Cecilia had belonged to the Order of the region. When the Catholicos Sacred Heart of Jesus and had devoted her life to Georges (680–659) visited Beth ministering to the poor and ill. -
Poverty Rates
Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Mapping Poverty inIraq Mapping Poverty Where are Iraq’s Poor: Poor: Iraq’s are Where Acknowledgements This work was led by Tara Vishwanath (Lead Economist, GPVDR) with a core team comprising Dhiraj Sharma (ETC, GPVDR), Nandini Krishnan (Senior Economist, GPVDR), and Brian Blankespoor (Environment Specialist, DECCT). We are grateful to Dr. Mehdi Al-Alak (Chair of the Poverty Reduction Strategy High Committee and Deputy Minister of Planning), Ms. Najla Ali Murad (Executive General Manager of the Poverty Reduction Strategy), Mr. Serwan Mohamed (Director, KRSO), and Mr. Qusay Raoof Abdulfatah (Liv- ing Conditions Statistics Director, CSO) for their commitment and dedication to the project. We also acknowledge the contribution on the draft report of the members of Poverty Technical High Committee of the Government of Iraq, representatives from academic institutions, the Ministry of Planning, Education and Social Affairs, and colleagues from the Central Statistics Office and the Kurdistan Region Statistics during the Beirut workshop in October 2014. We are thankful to our peer reviewers - Kenneth Simler (Senior Economist, GPVDR) and Nobuo Yoshida (Senior Economist, GPVDR) – for their valuable comments. Finally, we acknowledge the support of TACBF Trust Fund for financing a significant part of the work and the support and encouragement of Ferid Belhaj (Country Director, MNC02), Robert Bou Jaoude (Country Manager, MNCIQ), and Pilar -
Iraq's Displacement Crisis
CEASEFIRE centre for civilian rights Lahib Higel Iraq’s Displacement Crisis: Security and protection © Ceasefire Centre for Civilian Rights and Minority Rights Group International March 2016 Cover photo: This report has been produced as part of the Ceasefire project, a multi-year pro- gramme supported by the European Union to implement a system of civilian-led An Iraqi boy watches as internally- displaced Iraq families return to their monitoring of human rights abuses in Iraq, focusing in particular on the rights of homes in the western Melhaniyeh vulnerable civilians including vulnerable women, internally-displaced persons (IDPs), neighbourhood of Baghdad in stateless persons, and ethnic or religious minorities, and to assess the feasibility of September 2008. Some 150 Shi’a and Sunni families returned after an extending civilian-led monitoring to other country situations. earlier wave of displacement some two years before when sectarian This report has been produced with the financial assistance of the European Union violence escalated and families fled and the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada. The con- to neighbourhoods where their sect was in the majority. tents of this report are the sole responsibility of the publishers and can under no circumstances be regarded as reflecting the position of the European Union. © Ahmad Al-Rubaye /AFP / Getty Ceasefire Centre for Civilian Rights The Ceasefire Centre for Civilian Rights is a new initiative to develop ‘civilian-led monitoring’ of violations of international humanitarian law or human rights, to pursue legal and political accountability for those responsible for such violations, and to develop the practice of civilian rights. -
Russia's Syrian Campaign
Russia’s Syrian Campaign STRATEGIC GAMBIT OR REGIONAL ZUGZWANG? PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 423 March 2016 Sergey Minasyan1 Caucasus Institute (Yerevan) The Russian military campaign in Syria has been a major military and political event with significant regional and global consequences. It is post-Soviet Russia’s first openly- conducted full-scale military operation abroad. Russia’s operation in Syria also deftly exploited the element of surprise, as in Ukraine, catching its counterparts in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East off guard. It remains to be see, however, whether Russia’s Syria intervention can become anything more than a reckless gamble. Ongoing military and political developments will establish whether the “Syrian gambit” will be a regional zugzwang2 for Russia or its hour of triumph, laying the groundwork for achieving a “new normal” in its relations with the West.3 Either way, Russia risks a long-term entanglement in the conflict, including the possibility that Russians will have to be active in ground operations. Showcasing the Russian Military The Syrian campaign demonstrated Russia’s increased capacity to project military strength beyond its borders. Such far-flung Russian military power has not been seen since Soviet deployment of troops to Egypt (1970-1972) and Syria (1983-1984). Russia has flown a record number of sorties, pushing aircraft to their capacity. Russia has also used Syria to battle-test post-Soviet conventional weapons. Much of its equipment is either completely new or has been significantly upgraded. Su- 30SM and Su-35S fighter jets flew in combat for the first time, as did Su-34 bombers equipped with new smart armaments, including satellite-guided aerial bombs and 1 Sergey Minasyan is Deputy Director and Head of Political Studies at the Caucasus Institute (Armenia). -
Borders As Ethnically Charged Sites: Iraqi Kurdistan Border Crossings, 1995-2006
BORDERS AS ETHNICALLY CHARGED SITES: IRAQI KURDISTAN BORDER CROSSINGS, 1995-2006 Diane E. King Department of Anthropology University of Kentucky ABSTRACT: In this article, I use border crossings between Syria, Turkey, and Iraq during the period from 1995 to 2006 to examine the modern state, identity, and territory at border crossing points. Borderlands represent a site where the core powers of states can display the reach, scope, face, and preferred expressions of their identities. Border crossing points between modern states that make strong ethnolinguistic and/or ethnosectarian identity assertions, as do the states on which I focus here, are often charged sites where the state may seek to impose a certain identity category on an individual, an identity that the individual may or may not claim. Kurdistan, the non-state area recognized by Kurds as their ethnic/national home, arcs across the states, and most of the people meeting at the borders are ethnically Kurdish. The state may deny hybridity, or use hybridity, especially multilingualism, for its own purposes. Ethnolinguistic and other collective identity categories in Syria, Turkey, and Iraq are assigned according to patrilineal descent, which means that singular categories are passed from one gener- ation to the next. These categories are made much less malleable by their reliance on descent claims through one parent. In such a 51 ISSN 0894-6019, © 2019 The Institute, Inc. 52 URBAN ANTHROPOLOGY VOL. 48(1,2), 2019 milieu, ethnic identities may be a factor to a greater degree than if their state systems allowed for more ethnic flexibility and hybridity. Introduction In this article I use some encounters I had at border crossing points between Syria, Turkey and Iraq in the years from 1995 to 2006 to think questions of collective identity, territoriality, and boundaries in modern states. -
Westminsterresearch Language Ideologies and Identities in Kurdish
WestminsterResearch http://www.westminster.ac.uk/westminsterresearch Language ideologies and identities in Kurdish heritage language classrooms in London Yilmaz, B. This is an author's accepted manuscript of an article published in the International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 253 (86), pp. 173-200, 2018. The final definitive version is available online at: https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2018-0030 The WestminsterResearch online digital archive at the University of Westminster aims to make the research output of the University available to a wider audience. Copyright and Moral Rights remain with the authors and/or copyright owners. Whilst further distribution of specific materials from within this archive is forbidden, you may freely distribute the URL of WestminsterResearch: ((http://westminsterresearch.wmin.ac.uk/). In case of abuse or copyright appearing without permission e-mail [email protected] Language ideologies and identities in Kurdish heritage language classrooms in London Abstract This article investigates the way that Kurdish language learners construct discourses around identity in two language schools in London. It focuses on the values that heritage language learners of Kurdish-Kurmanji attribute to the Kurmanji spoken in the Bohtan and Maraş regions of Turkey. Kurmanji is one of the varieties of Kurdish that is spoken mainly in Turkey and Syria. The article explores the way that learners perceive the language from the Bohtan region to be ‘good Kurmanji’, in contrast to the ‘bad Kurmanji’ from the Maraş region. Drawing on ethnographic data collected from community-based Kurdish-Kurmanji heritage language classes for adults in South and East London, I illustrate how distinctive lexical and phonological features such as the sounds [a:] ~ [ɑ:] and [ɑ]/ [æ] ~ [a:] are associated with regional (and religious) identities of the learners.