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...Kurdish nationalists as the future capital of a Kurdish state. Turkey is unhappy that former Kurdish residents of the city forcibly relocated by Saddam Hussein and replaced by Arab Iraqis two decades ago will be allowed to vote in Kirkuk. Turkey - as well as leaders of the city's ethnic Turcoman and Arab populations - fear this will decisively tip the electoral balance to give the Kurds control over the contested city. The Turkish military is warning, bluntly, that it would deem Kurdish control of Kirkuk unacceptable, and that it might view such an outcome as grounds to intervene. These...
Dating back to the Beastie Boys, rap has long had a diverse fringe, but Chinese-American rapper Jin, left, and others are giving the field a fresh infusion of ethnic energy. Their focus? Politics and spirituality, not babes and bling. --By Jeremy Caplan...
...Once the dust settled, in fact, the Iraqi Electoral Commission's initial estimate of a 72 percent turnout was revised down to 57 percent of eligible voters - later around 60 percent - with the ethnic breakdown as expected: Strong voter turnout among the long-marginalized Shiites and Kurds, who together comprise over 80 percent of the population; poor turnout among the Sunni Arabs in whose name the insurgency fights. Still, the very fact of Iraq's next government being chosen at the ballot box entrenches the principle that no government can claim legitimacy in Iraq without a democratic popular mandate. There...
Some of the smartest scam artists, Minkow explains, target groups united by religion, race or ethnic origin. From 1998 to 2001, at least 80,000 people lost $2 billion in religious-investor frauds, according to the North American Securities Administrators Association, a group representing state regulators. In fact, most of the eight major frauds Minkow helped uncover in the past year have involved hustlers trying to sell investments to church groups...
...polling locations have been highly guarded due to security concerns. It is expected that a large portion of Iraq’s Sunni Arabs will not participate in the elections at all, which almost surely means the National Assembly will have few Sunni representatives. This result may exacerbate ethnic tensions...