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Thursday
Mar102011

Iraq Feature: The Protests in Kurdistan (Salih)

The winds of change sweeping through the Middle East and North Africa have now reached an otherwise peaceful corner of northern Iraq. Nowhere is their arrival more visible than in Bardarki Sara, the central square of Sulaimaniya, which has turned into a venue for mass protests against the authorities in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Inspired by the protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square, the protesters have renamed their square "Maydani Azadi", the Kurdish equivalent of Tahrir or Liberation Square.

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