Abstract
The establishment of formal diplomatic representation by Egypt in Iraqi Kurdistan in November 2010, with similar plans announced for the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and the Palestinian Authority, is representative of its evolving interactions with the Arab Middle East, if not the larger international community, since the removal of the Ba’ath/Saddam Hussein regime in April 2003 (Aswat al-Iraq, 2010). Such developments have served to dispel the traditional discourse among Pan-Arab nationalists that once characterized the Iraqi Kurdish region as a “second Israel” (Bengio, 1998, pp. 33–34). It is therefore notable that the mass anti-government demonstrations that unseated entrenched leaderships in Tunisia and Egypt in early 2011 were seized upon by representatives of the Gorran (Change) reform movement, which at that time held over 20% of the seats in the Kurdistan Parliament–Iraq and eight seats in the national Council of Representatives (CoR), as a form of political analogy (Associated Press, 2011a). The statement broadcast on Kurdish News Network (KNN), the television channel operated by Gorran chairman Nawshirwan Mustafa’s Wusha Corporation, extended several demands that essentially compared the leadership of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) with the threatened authoritarian regimes of the Arab states.
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- Non-governmental Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs)
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- Northern IraqIraq
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Khabat, March 16, 2006.
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Khabat, February, 2006; Khabat, July, 2006.
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Komal, July 1, 2006, p. 1.
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Hawlati, October 11, 2006, p. 1.
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Aso, March 5, 2007, p. 1; Khabat, December 11, 2007, p. 4.
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Rojnama, January 13, 2008, pp. 1–2; Khabat, January 22, 2008, p. 4; Chawder, January 21, 2008, p. 2; Al-Ittihad, January 22, 2008, p. 3.
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Rojnama, August 18, 2008, p. 1.
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Kurdistani Nuwe, December 13, 2006, p. 3.
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Kurdistani Nuwe, December 20, 2006.
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Khabat, December 13, 2006, p. 1; Al-Ittihad, December 13, 2006; Khabat, December 18, 2006, p. 4; Khabat, December 19, 2006, p. 1.
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Khabat, September 5, 2007, pp. 1, 12.
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Rojnama, June 8, 2010, p. 2.
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Khabat, October 28, 2007, p. 1.
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Komal, April 15, 2006, p. 1.
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Kurdistani Nuwe, February 15, 2007, p. 1; Khabat, April 28, 2007, p. 1.
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Khabat, October 25, 2007, pp. 1, 12.
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Rojnama, June 9, 2009, p. 2.
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Strakes, J.E. (2019). The Arab Spring and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG): Analogies with the Arab State Crisis?. In: Çakmak, C., Özçelik, A.O. (eds) The World Community and the Arab Spring. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60985-0_15
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