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Article: Return to Kirkuk.(Web Exclusive)(Kurds in Iraq)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- April 11, 2003
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Tarsin Amad Khalif, the principal of Azadi high school in the northern Iraq city of Arbil, gestures toward the map hanging behind him with a wistful smile. The map depicts a country called Kurdistan, its borders stretching from northern Iraq through parts of Turkey, Iran, and a corner of Syria. The same map adorns the walls of every school and government office in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq, a map of a country that does not exist. ``This is our hope for the future,'' Khalif says. ``It is only a dream.''
As Iraq braces for its postwar future, most educated Kurds have, at least publicly, abandoned the century-old fight for an independent state in favor of a ...
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