The Kurdish Miracle, das kurdische Wunder, so überschreibt Zvi Bar’el seine Reportage aus dem kurdischen Teil des Irak, wo sich inzwischen eine de facto autonome Region gebildet hat: mit eigenem Parlament, eigenen Gesetzen und einer ganz anderen Kultur.

“Here the parliament has passed a law that stipulates that any murder is a murder,” Hassan says. “There is no longer leniency for murdering women in the pretext of preserving family honor. This is not Iraq, where people who murder over family honor enjoy special privileges under the law. Moreover, our prime minister has called for setting up a hotline at police stations for abused women.”
This is the heart of Iraq’s anomaly. The Kurdish region is run as if it were a completely independent state. The Kurdish flag flies over the huge parliament building, not the Iraqi flag. At night, lights in the shape of the Kurdish flag light the streets of Erbil. The Iraqi flag cannot be seen here, and people even decline to use Arabic, the official language of the state.
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