Iraq’s next count to include data on ethnic and religious affiliation
By Shakir al-Khateeb
Azzaman, May 19, 2009
The forms to be used for the country’s next census on October 24 will contain questions on Iraqis’ religious and ethnic affiliation, a senior government official said.
But Mahdi al-Allaq of the Planning Ministry said there is nothing in the forms with regard to sectarian belonging.
The census may put to rest issues regarding the ‘exact’ numbers which each of the country’s minorities claims for itself.
But analysts say it won’t be without problems particularly in disputed areas.
At issue will be the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, for instance, which the Kurds allege to be predominantly Kurdish in character, an allegation which the country’s Arabs and Turkmen reject.
Allaq said the government has allocated $80 million to carry out the count and has mobilized at least 250,000 of the country’s half a million teachers for the purpose.
The official said no area of Iraq will be excluded from the count and that the government is seeking assistance from specialized organizations such as the U.N. and the E.U.
The exclusion of information on sectarian affiliation is bound to leave issues regarding the percentages of both Shiites and Sunnis unsettled.
Analysts say there are many among the Sunnis who dispute that fact that the Shiites are the majority.
But Allaq said the government is keen not to politicize the October count.
“We are not concerned with politics. Our aim is to carry out the count merely for planning purposes to give the decision-makers information on the country’s economic conditions and issues with a bearing on the Iraqi society,” he added.
http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news%5C2009-05-19%5Ckurd.htm
mercredi 20 mai 2009
mardi 19 mai 2009
IRAQ: Corruption undermining state food aid programme?
BAGHDAD, 19 May 2009 (IRIN) - Iraq’s state-run food rationing system is crumbling and corruption in high places could be partly to blame.
A new survey by the Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation of 120,000 families which had qualified for state food handouts in 15 of Iraq’s 18 provinces, found that 18 percent of families had not received the nine-item food ration for 13 months; 31.5 percent for 7-12 months; 14.5 percent for 4-6 months; 22 percent for 2-3 months and 14.5 percent for one month.
The survey also revealed concerns about the quality of food items: 16 percent of the surveyed families said the ration items in April were bad, 45 percent said they acceptable, while 29 percent said they were good. Top on the list of bad items was tea, followed by rice, flour and sugar, the survey found.
Meanwhile, Iraqi Trade Minister Abdul-Falah al-Sudani is facing a no-confidence vote in parliament next week over embezzlement and corruption charges - mainly in relation to food imports for the food rationing scheme known as the Public Distribution System (PDS), a member of parliament (MP) said on 18 May. “So far we have collected 110 MPs’ signatures for this vote.
Corruption in the Trade Ministry is running high, mainly over imported food items unfit for human consumption,” said Sheikh Sabah al-Saidi, chairman of the parliament’s Integrity Committee. “Billions of dollars have been wasted in this ministry and this has led to citizens receiving bad food items over the past few years and also delays in distribution [of food items] in some places,” al-Saidi said. A simple majority of the 275 members of parliament is enough to dismiss the trade minister.
On 16 and 17 May, Al-Sudani appeared before parliament where he acknowledged there had been some cases of corruption in his ministry and admitted “some food items were bad.” The minister’s brother and another official were arrested while seven other officials, including another brother, are still at large. Rations still vital “Despite the negative points that have been registered by the survey, the [surveyed] families still considered the food ration system to be the only guaranteed way of ensuring their food security,” the survey said.
Iraq’s food rationing system, known as the Public Distribution System (PDS), was set up in 1995 as part of the UN’s oil-for-food programme following Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait 17 years ago.
However, it has been crumbling since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 due to insecurity, poor management and corruption. Monthly PDS parcels are supposed to contain rice (3kg per person); sugar (2kg per person); cooking oil (1.25kg or one litre per person); flour (9kg per person); milk for adults (250g per person); tea (200g per person); beans (250g per person); children's milk (1.8kg per child); soap (250g per person); detergents (500g per person); and tomato paste (500g per person).
http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=84447
A new survey by the Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation of 120,000 families which had qualified for state food handouts in 15 of Iraq’s 18 provinces, found that 18 percent of families had not received the nine-item food ration for 13 months; 31.5 percent for 7-12 months; 14.5 percent for 4-6 months; 22 percent for 2-3 months and 14.5 percent for one month.
The survey also revealed concerns about the quality of food items: 16 percent of the surveyed families said the ration items in April were bad, 45 percent said they acceptable, while 29 percent said they were good. Top on the list of bad items was tea, followed by rice, flour and sugar, the survey found.
Meanwhile, Iraqi Trade Minister Abdul-Falah al-Sudani is facing a no-confidence vote in parliament next week over embezzlement and corruption charges - mainly in relation to food imports for the food rationing scheme known as the Public Distribution System (PDS), a member of parliament (MP) said on 18 May. “So far we have collected 110 MPs’ signatures for this vote.
Corruption in the Trade Ministry is running high, mainly over imported food items unfit for human consumption,” said Sheikh Sabah al-Saidi, chairman of the parliament’s Integrity Committee. “Billions of dollars have been wasted in this ministry and this has led to citizens receiving bad food items over the past few years and also delays in distribution [of food items] in some places,” al-Saidi said. A simple majority of the 275 members of parliament is enough to dismiss the trade minister.
On 16 and 17 May, Al-Sudani appeared before parliament where he acknowledged there had been some cases of corruption in his ministry and admitted “some food items were bad.” The minister’s brother and another official were arrested while seven other officials, including another brother, are still at large. Rations still vital “Despite the negative points that have been registered by the survey, the [surveyed] families still considered the food ration system to be the only guaranteed way of ensuring their food security,” the survey said.
Iraq’s food rationing system, known as the Public Distribution System (PDS), was set up in 1995 as part of the UN’s oil-for-food programme following Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait 17 years ago.
However, it has been crumbling since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 due to insecurity, poor management and corruption. Monthly PDS parcels are supposed to contain rice (3kg per person); sugar (2kg per person); cooking oil (1.25kg or one litre per person); flour (9kg per person); milk for adults (250g per person); tea (200g per person); beans (250g per person); children's milk (1.8kg per child); soap (250g per person); detergents (500g per person); and tomato paste (500g per person).
http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=84447
samedi 16 mai 2009
Musique et chansons des Turkmènes d'Irak (Hoyrat)
Musique et chansons des Turkmènes d’Irak (Hoyrats)
Pour écouter:
HOYRAT : Les Hoyrat sont un genre de uzun hava construit sur les quatrains qui contiennent souvent des allusions et jeux de mots. Les Hoyrat sont chantés dans toute l’Anatolie de l’Ouest, le Sud-est de l’Anatolie et à Kirkouk, qui se trouve aujourd'hui dans les frontières de l'Irak. Les Hoyrat s’appellent par plusieurs noms: Gelin Hoyratı (jeune mariée), Nöbetçi Hoyratı (gardien), Muhalif Hoyratı, Kesik Hoyratı, Muçula Hoyratı, etc.
Voir :
http://www.turkishmusicportal.com/page.php?id=58&lang2=fr
http://www.turkuler.com/?lang2=fr&lang2=fr
http://www.turkuler.com/sozler/ta.asp?harf=I
Voir :
http://www.turkishmusicportal.com/page.php?id=58&lang2=fr
http://www.turkuler.com/?lang2=fr&lang2=fr
http://www.turkuler.com/sozler/ta.asp?harf=I
Comment l'armée américaine a "libéré" les Irakiens
Détenus irakiens torturés par les soldats de l’armée d’occupation E.U. dans la prison d’Abu Ghraib
Images de la presse australienne
http://www.smh.com.au/ftimages/2006/02/15/1139890768716.html
Obama veut interdire la publication des ‘nouvelles photos’ sur les sévices dans les prisons américaines en Irak, de peur que cela nuise à l’image de l’Amérique dans le monde…
Images de la presse australienne
http://www.smh.com.au/ftimages/2006/02/15/1139890768716.html
Obama veut interdire la publication des ‘nouvelles photos’ sur les sévices dans les prisons américaines en Irak, de peur que cela nuise à l’image de l’Amérique dans le monde…
mardi 12 mai 2009
KERKÜK'TE İNTİHAR SALDIRISI.!
Kerkük kentinde bomba yüklü araçla düzenlenen intihar saldırısında ölü sayısı 8’e yükseldi. Güvenlik kaynaklarına göre Kerkük’te Bağdat’a giden yol üzerindeki El Şimue yakınında hareket halinde polis kamyonuna bomba yüklü araçla intihar saldırısı düzenlendi. Saldırıda 8 kişi ölürken, 11 kişinin de yaralandığı bildirildi. Polis sözcüsü Serhat Kadır, ölenlerin 5’inin polis olduğu açıkladı. Kadır, aynı dakikalarda kentin bir başka yerinde askeri araç yakınlarında yola döşenen bir bombanın patladığını, ancak olayda ölen yara yaralanan olmadığını söyledi. Dün akşam da Edil Camisi önünde bomba yüklü bir aracın patlaması sonucu 2 kişi öldü, 9 kişi yaralandı.
lundi 11 mai 2009
دولة رئيس الوزراء نوري المالكي المحترم
دولة رئيس الوزراء نوري المالكي المحترم
اشيع في بعض وسائل الاعلام العراقية عن نية او قرار رئيس الوزراء العراقي بتخصيص نصف دولار لمحافظة البصرة من كل برميل نفط تخرج منها
ونحن التركمان نؤيد بقوة هذه المبادرة الشجاعة ونقول في الوقت نفسه ان محافظة كركوك كانت تنتظر مثل هذه الخطوة قبل البصرة وغيرها ، باعتبارها أول محافظة عراقية منتجة للنفط
لذا ندعو السيد رئيس الوزراء إلى تعميم هذه المبادرة والقرار ليشمل جميع المحافظات العراقية المنتجة للنفط وفي مقدمتها كركوك التي لا يخفى على السيد المالكي ما تعانيه هذه المحافظة من الإهمال والارتباك والفوضى في إعادة بنائها وإعمارها
من هنا نقترح ونقول إذا كانت الظروف السياسية لكركوك لا تسمح في الوقت الحاضر بتفعيل هكذا مشروع ، فإن الحل يكمن في تشكيل لجنة عراقية محايدة أو ايداع حصة كركوك في صندوق دولي إلى حين تقرير مصيرها بالتراضي بين مكوناتها القومية
مع فائق التقدير والاحترام
علي مهدي صادق
نائب رئيس حزب توركمن ايلي
اشيع في بعض وسائل الاعلام العراقية عن نية او قرار رئيس الوزراء العراقي بتخصيص نصف دولار لمحافظة البصرة من كل برميل نفط تخرج منها
ونحن التركمان نؤيد بقوة هذه المبادرة الشجاعة ونقول في الوقت نفسه ان محافظة كركوك كانت تنتظر مثل هذه الخطوة قبل البصرة وغيرها ، باعتبارها أول محافظة عراقية منتجة للنفط
لذا ندعو السيد رئيس الوزراء إلى تعميم هذه المبادرة والقرار ليشمل جميع المحافظات العراقية المنتجة للنفط وفي مقدمتها كركوك التي لا يخفى على السيد المالكي ما تعانيه هذه المحافظة من الإهمال والارتباك والفوضى في إعادة بنائها وإعمارها
من هنا نقترح ونقول إذا كانت الظروف السياسية لكركوك لا تسمح في الوقت الحاضر بتفعيل هكذا مشروع ، فإن الحل يكمن في تشكيل لجنة عراقية محايدة أو ايداع حصة كركوك في صندوق دولي إلى حين تقرير مصيرها بالتراضي بين مكوناتها القومية
مع فائق التقدير والاحترام
علي مهدي صادق
نائب رئيس حزب توركمن ايلي
KRG-Baghdad dispute export agreement
Iraq Oil Report
Friday, 8 May 2009
By BEN LANDO
Iraq Oil Report
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) of Iraq announced Friday it will begin June 1 sending oil from the Tawke and Taq Taq fields to the northern Iraq export pipeline.
The Ministry of Oil in Baghdad has not confirmed the agreement. The ministry, which has sparred with the KRG over the rights to sign oil deals and set oil policy, would need to OK the field’s entry into the export pipeline. Spokesman Assem Jihad told Reuters no agreement has been reached.
These exports have been held up as the central and regional governments dispute the rights to sign oil deals and the mechanisms for revenue to be collected and redistributed, including to the producing companies.
The Tawke pipeline ended in Feshkhabor near the Turkish border as of June 2008, not yet connected. It has since been tied into the export line from Kirkuk. In the background is the metering station which the oil flows through before entering Turkey. (source: Ben Lando)
Baghdad says the KRG’s two-dozen oil deals and regional oil law undermine state authority of the oil sector. Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani has since called the deals illegal and blacklisted companies who signed with the KRG from buying Iraqi oil or signing deals. The KRG says it has the rights under the “new” Iraq’s federalist system.
Iraq exports about 1.8 million barrels per day (bpd), earning more than 91 percent of state income.
The Tawke field, operated by Norway’s DNO, on June 1 will produce “at an initial rate of around 60,000 barrels per day,” KRG Natural Resources Minister Ashti Hawrami said in a statement. “This follows the completion of all the metering instrumentation and the tie-in of the field pipeline with the Iraq-Turkey main export pipeline at the border town of Fishkhabur.”
Another 40,000 bpd is to be added in June from the Taq Taq field, operated by Turkey’s Genel Enerji and Canada’s Addax Petroleum. Until a pipeline is built linking the field to the export pipeline, the crude will be trucked from the field to be loaded into the export line.
“This will be a temporary measure and will continue until a field pipeline is laid between the Taq-Taq field and the Khurmala Station,” Hawrami said.
Hawrami’s statement also claims the quality of the Iraq oil exports will be improved by the added oil from the semi-autonomous three northern provinces that constitute the KRG. There were claims from Baghdad earlier this week the oil would be downgraded by the additional flow.
A ceremony is set for June 1, Hawrami said, and officials from the KRG and Baghdad governments are invited.
Currently, small amounts of oil are produced in the KRG, sold to the domestic market.
Hawrami told Iraq Oil Report last month the KRG could produce 250,000 bpd by the end of this year or early 2010, with plans to build pipelines with a capacity of 570,000 bpd.
http://www.iraqoilreport.com/the-biz/iraq-oil-exports-get-kurdish-boost/1420/
Friday, 8 May 2009
By BEN LANDO
Iraq Oil Report
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) of Iraq announced Friday it will begin June 1 sending oil from the Tawke and Taq Taq fields to the northern Iraq export pipeline.
The Ministry of Oil in Baghdad has not confirmed the agreement. The ministry, which has sparred with the KRG over the rights to sign oil deals and set oil policy, would need to OK the field’s entry into the export pipeline. Spokesman Assem Jihad told Reuters no agreement has been reached.
These exports have been held up as the central and regional governments dispute the rights to sign oil deals and the mechanisms for revenue to be collected and redistributed, including to the producing companies.
The Tawke pipeline ended in Feshkhabor near the Turkish border as of June 2008, not yet connected. It has since been tied into the export line from Kirkuk. In the background is the metering station which the oil flows through before entering Turkey. (source: Ben Lando)
Baghdad says the KRG’s two-dozen oil deals and regional oil law undermine state authority of the oil sector. Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani has since called the deals illegal and blacklisted companies who signed with the KRG from buying Iraqi oil or signing deals. The KRG says it has the rights under the “new” Iraq’s federalist system.
Iraq exports about 1.8 million barrels per day (bpd), earning more than 91 percent of state income.
The Tawke field, operated by Norway’s DNO, on June 1 will produce “at an initial rate of around 60,000 barrels per day,” KRG Natural Resources Minister Ashti Hawrami said in a statement. “This follows the completion of all the metering instrumentation and the tie-in of the field pipeline with the Iraq-Turkey main export pipeline at the border town of Fishkhabur.”
Another 40,000 bpd is to be added in June from the Taq Taq field, operated by Turkey’s Genel Enerji and Canada’s Addax Petroleum. Until a pipeline is built linking the field to the export pipeline, the crude will be trucked from the field to be loaded into the export line.
“This will be a temporary measure and will continue until a field pipeline is laid between the Taq-Taq field and the Khurmala Station,” Hawrami said.
Hawrami’s statement also claims the quality of the Iraq oil exports will be improved by the added oil from the semi-autonomous three northern provinces that constitute the KRG. There were claims from Baghdad earlier this week the oil would be downgraded by the additional flow.
A ceremony is set for June 1, Hawrami said, and officials from the KRG and Baghdad governments are invited.
Currently, small amounts of oil are produced in the KRG, sold to the domestic market.
Hawrami told Iraq Oil Report last month the KRG could produce 250,000 bpd by the end of this year or early 2010, with plans to build pipelines with a capacity of 570,000 bpd.
http://www.iraqoilreport.com/the-biz/iraq-oil-exports-get-kurdish-boost/1420/
dimanche 10 mai 2009
ABD'den Türkmenlere yakınlık
http://www.kerkuk.net/haberler/haber.aspx?dil=1055&metin=200905106
10 Mayıs 2009, Pazar
ABD askerinden oluşan bir heyet, bugün Irak Türkmen Cephesi'ni ziyaret etti. Heyet, ABD Büyükelçiliği Tuzhurmatu bölge temsilcisi Dr. Wayn yanında bölgede yeniden yapılandırma projesi sorumlusu ve yeni atanan temsilci Bili Hol'dan oluşuyordu.
ABD askerinden oluşan bir heyet, bugün Irak Türkmen Cephesi'ni ziyaret etti. Heyet, ABD Büyükelçiliği Tuzhurmatu bölge temsilcisi Dr. Wayn yanında bölgede yeniden yapılandırma projesi sorumlusu ve yeni atanan temsilci Bili Hol'dan oluşuyordu. Heyet Irak Türkmen Cephesi Selahettin İl başkanı ve Selahettin il meclisi üyesi Ali Haşim Muhtaroğlu tarafından karşılandı. Muhtaroğlu ziyaretçi heyete ziyaretlerinden dolayı sevindiklerini bildirdi ayrıca yeni göreve başlayan temsilciye görevinde başarılar diledi.
Görüşmede Tuzhurmatu'da yapılması planlanan projelerin önünde olan engeller ve o engellerin çıkış yolları masaya yatırıldı. Ayrıca Tuzhurmatu çevresindeki Türkmen Bayat köylerindeki su ve hizmet sıkıntılarını giderecek projeler konuşuldu. Muhtaroğlu: 'Millet bize güvendi oy verdi biz de buna karşılık vermemiz gerekiyor oda vatandaşın hayatında bir değişim yaratmakla elde edilir ve vatandaşlara en iyi hizmetleri sunmakla gerçekleşir dedi. Ayrıca Muhtaroğlu biz 2005 yılından itibaren bir çok köylerde su kuyuları kazmaya kalktık ve bu vatandaşların su sıkıntısını bir nevi giderdi. Görüşmede ayrıca bölgede bulunan ve Kürt partilere ait olan ve resmi olmayan silahlı gruplar, asayiş güçleri konuşuldu.
Muhtaroğlu, "Biz bu güçlerin bölgede olmalarını uygun görmüyoruz çünkü burası merkezi Irak hükümetine bağlı bir bölgedir bu yüzden hiç bir siyasi tarafın silahlı milisi olmayacaktır burada. Irak hükümetine sunulan BM raporuyla ilgili Muhtaroğlu 'Türkmen milleti bu rapordan büyük hayal kırıklığına uğradı çünkü bağımsız ve tarafsız olması gereken BM temsilcisi raporda çok açık bir şekilde taraf tuttuğu gösteriyor biz bundan tepkiliyiz" dedi.
Görüşmede ayrıca, Türkmen arsalarına siyasi amaçla yapılan tecavüzler ve bunların bir an evvel kalkması gerektiği belirtildi. Görüşme sonunda yeni temsilci Bili Hol, görüşmeden memnun olduklarını dile getirirken verilen fikirlerin tamamen pozitif olduğunu belirtti.
Milliyet
10 Mayıs 2009, Pazar
ABD askerinden oluşan bir heyet, bugün Irak Türkmen Cephesi'ni ziyaret etti. Heyet, ABD Büyükelçiliği Tuzhurmatu bölge temsilcisi Dr. Wayn yanında bölgede yeniden yapılandırma projesi sorumlusu ve yeni atanan temsilci Bili Hol'dan oluşuyordu.
ABD askerinden oluşan bir heyet, bugün Irak Türkmen Cephesi'ni ziyaret etti. Heyet, ABD Büyükelçiliği Tuzhurmatu bölge temsilcisi Dr. Wayn yanında bölgede yeniden yapılandırma projesi sorumlusu ve yeni atanan temsilci Bili Hol'dan oluşuyordu. Heyet Irak Türkmen Cephesi Selahettin İl başkanı ve Selahettin il meclisi üyesi Ali Haşim Muhtaroğlu tarafından karşılandı. Muhtaroğlu ziyaretçi heyete ziyaretlerinden dolayı sevindiklerini bildirdi ayrıca yeni göreve başlayan temsilciye görevinde başarılar diledi.
Görüşmede Tuzhurmatu'da yapılması planlanan projelerin önünde olan engeller ve o engellerin çıkış yolları masaya yatırıldı. Ayrıca Tuzhurmatu çevresindeki Türkmen Bayat köylerindeki su ve hizmet sıkıntılarını giderecek projeler konuşuldu. Muhtaroğlu: 'Millet bize güvendi oy verdi biz de buna karşılık vermemiz gerekiyor oda vatandaşın hayatında bir değişim yaratmakla elde edilir ve vatandaşlara en iyi hizmetleri sunmakla gerçekleşir dedi. Ayrıca Muhtaroğlu biz 2005 yılından itibaren bir çok köylerde su kuyuları kazmaya kalktık ve bu vatandaşların su sıkıntısını bir nevi giderdi. Görüşmede ayrıca bölgede bulunan ve Kürt partilere ait olan ve resmi olmayan silahlı gruplar, asayiş güçleri konuşuldu.
Muhtaroğlu, "Biz bu güçlerin bölgede olmalarını uygun görmüyoruz çünkü burası merkezi Irak hükümetine bağlı bir bölgedir bu yüzden hiç bir siyasi tarafın silahlı milisi olmayacaktır burada. Irak hükümetine sunulan BM raporuyla ilgili Muhtaroğlu 'Türkmen milleti bu rapordan büyük hayal kırıklığına uğradı çünkü bağımsız ve tarafsız olması gereken BM temsilcisi raporda çok açık bir şekilde taraf tuttuğu gösteriyor biz bundan tepkiliyiz" dedi.
Görüşmede ayrıca, Türkmen arsalarına siyasi amaçla yapılan tecavüzler ve bunların bir an evvel kalkması gerektiği belirtildi. Görüşme sonunda yeni temsilci Bili Hol, görüşmeden memnun olduklarını dile getirirken verilen fikirlerin tamamen pozitif olduğunu belirtti.
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