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Article: Their winning ways.(THE KRG)
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- Kurdish Life
- Article date:
- September 22, 2008
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As this fall issue of Kurdish Life was being completed, winter intervened. So did the following reports on Iraq's provincial elections. "The Kurdish Alliance, an umbrella of major Kurdish factions, is seeking to put off provincial elections in the city of Mosul," Azzaman reported on the first day of winter. "The elections scheduled for January 31 are expected to rid the Kurds of the current majority they have in the provincial council of Nineveh of which Mosul is the capital ... Mosul is predominantly an Arab city where Kurds make a little more than 5% of the population. However, the city and some of its major suburbs have been administratively and militarily under ...