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Kurdish Doctor Leaves U.S. For Iraqi Politics
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vokradio, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Kurdish Doctor Leaves U.S. For Iraqi Politic
by Quil Lawrence
 NPR: Dr. Najmaldeen Karim is going back to Iraq to run in the 2010
elections. The Washington D.C.-area neurosurgeon fled his homeland in
1975. Now he's leaving a comfortable life in the U.S. to try for a seat
in the Iraqi parliament representing the Kurds of Kirkuk, one of Iraq's
ethnic flash points.
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The lies of Iran, in pictures
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vokradio, Los Angeles, California, USA
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The lies of Iran, in pictures
By :Joshua Prager
, February 7, 2010
The Los Angeles Times: In 1979, and again last year, the reality of the Islamic Republic was revealed in famous images of death.
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This 1979 photo of an Iranian firing squad executing a group of men, including Ahsan and Shahriar Nahid, won a
Pulitzer Prize.
(Jahangir Razmi / Associated Press)
Among the condemned were Ahsan and Shahriar Nahid. Ahsan, an engineer
in Tehran, had joined a Kurdish separatist organization after the
revolution and moved to Sanandaj. Shahriar, a medical student, had been
visiting his brother when the two were arrested at a military
checkpoint.
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Turkey: 800 Kurdish Politicians Arrested in One Year
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vokradio.com, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Yaman from DTP: 800 Kurdish Politicians Arrested in One Year
January 30, 2010 
By: S.K.S.
Peace and Democracy Group Chairman Yaman said: "The AKP government takes revenge by arresting mayors of the provinces they did not win in the elections". He urged the government to stop the operations.
Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Group Chairman Nuri Yaman said in the party's regular weekly general meeting that almost 800 Kurdish politicians were arrested in the course of political operations throughout the last year. Yaman reminded the latest incident when Nuri Güne?, Mayor of I?d?r (a province on the Armenian border) was arrested together with another seven people, among them members of the city council. "The Justice and Development Party (AKP) takes revenge by arresting the mayors of the provinces they did not win in the elections", Yaman argued.
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KAYO: Request for donations to bring medical help to people in Kurdish region of Turkey
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vokradio.com,Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Kurdish American Youth Organization (KAYO)
 Press Release
Sept, 21, 2009
Members of the Kurdish American Youth Organization (KAYO) are proud to initiate a fundraiser in collaboration with Gift of Hope Overseas, also a nonprofit organization founded by graduate students at VCU-Medical College of Virginia.
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Iraq's Assyrian Christians find temporary home in Kurdistan
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vokradio.com,Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Iraq's Assyrian Christians find temporary home in Kurdistan
For Rajo Qardaq Palander, a church security guard, the breaking point came last year, when insurgents
demanded that he pay $20,000 or abandon his home in Baghdad's Dora neighborhood.
The choice was easy. He slipped out of Dora in the dead of night, joining the exodus of Assyrian Christians from Baghdad and Mosul to this haven in Iraq's Kurdish-controlled north.
"I held on as long as I could," Palander, 35, said. "I have no future in Iraq."
One of Iraq's most ancient national groups, the Assyrian Christians, who are Eastern Orthodox Christians, have largely quit their ancestral home in Arab Iraq and fled to the Kurdish region, where tens of thousands now live, or abroad.
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