Fraudes et irrégularités commises par les Kurdes lors des élections générales en Irak du 30 janvier 2005
January 31, 2009 at 3:16 pm | Posted in Turkmens | Leave a commentTags: Elections janvier 2005 en Irak, Fraudes électorales en Irak
POUR RAPPEL
LE COMITE DE DEFENSE DES DROITS DES TURKMENES IRAKIENS A ADRESSE LE COMMUNIQUE SUIVANT AUX MEMBRES ET AUX COMMISSAIRES DU PARLEMENT EUROPEEN
le 14 décembre 2005.
OBJET : FRAUDES ET IRREGULARITES ELECTORALES EN IRAK
Les élections générales en Irak du 30 janvier 2005 ont été entachées par de multiples irrégularités et fraudes qui ont permis à la coalition des partis kurdes (KDP et PUK) de rafler non seulement la totalité des sièges des trois provinces qui sont sous leur contrôle depuis 1991 (Arbil, Duhok et Sulaymaniya) mais aussi de s’approprier la majorité des sièges dans les autres provinces du nord du pays (Kerkuk, Salahaddin et Diyala) où ils sont nettement minoritaires, au détriment des Arabes, des Turkmènes et des Chaldo-assyriens.
Ces fraudes et irrégularités ont permis à la coalition des partis kurdes de s’approprier 55 sièges sur un total de 275 et de devenir ainsi le deuxième groupe parlementaire le plus important du pays et de s’imposer sur le plan national comme un groupe parlementaire incontournable pour former le gouvernement et diriger le pays avec un pouvoir nettement disproportionné par rapport à sa représentation réelle dans le pays.
A Litmus Test for Iraq, by Reidar Visser
January 31, 2009 at 2:13 am | Posted in Turkmens | Leave a commentTags: Iraq's Provincial Elections, Reidar Visser
A Litmus Test for Iraq
Reidar Visser
January 30, 2009
(Reidar Visser is a research fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and editor of the Iraq website http://www.historiae.org.)
Former Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari arrived in Basra on January 24. His mission in the southern oil port was to stump for his Reformist Front, a breakaway faction of the Da‘wa Party of the current premier, Nouri al-Maliki, ahead of Iraq’s January 31 provincial elections. His itinerary included visits to the Five Miles area — often described as a stronghold of the movement loyal to the young Shi‘i leader Muqtada al-Sadr — as well as a rally at a sports stadium. Only days earlier, he had been preceded by Maliki himself, and in the first days of 2009 numerous other national politicians trooped to Basra as well.
Iraqi Turkmen Front’s Official Protest to the High Commission for the Elections in Iraq on 31st January 2005
January 30, 2009 at 6:47 pm | Posted in Turkmens | Leave a commentTags: Iraqi Turkmen Front, Kurdish vote rigging during January 2005 elections, Kurdish vote rigging in the Turkmen Region
The Iraqi Turkmen Front (ITF) issued an official protest to the High Commission for the Elections in Iraq on 31st January 2005 complaining about widespread irregularities committed by the Kurds in the Turkmen region.
The document details extensive voting abuses by Kurds, including:
· Kurds voting outside of their legal districts
· Multiple vote casting by numerous voters
· Allowing youths under 18 years of age to vote
· Allowing votes of dead people
· Allowing voting of some people in two different election centres
The following is the English translation of ITF’s letter of protest.
To the High Commission for the Elections in Iraq
C/O The Kerkuk Bureau of the High Commission for the Elections in Iraq.
Ref : Contestation of irregularities during the voting process.
According to the legal rights that were granted to the political parties and organizations in order to contest any irregularity during the election process of 30th January 2005 which began in the morning and ended by closing the voting centres at 5 p.m. and in accordance with our conviction and belief that these elections must be clean and fair in order to establish a true democracy in Iraq, we are sorry and deeply concerned to inform you that too many irregularities have been committed during these elections which no doubt will affect its results.
Despite your declarations to the press and to the television news networks that the elections have been `almost’ clean and fair, we have encountered numerous problems to vote, have observed multiple irregularities in voting centres and have been subjected to illegal behaviour and unfair treatments in polling centres in our region, in the provinces of Kerkuk, Mosul, Salaheddin and Erbil. These voting problems, voting irregularities, illegal behaviour from election officials, and unfair treatment of Turkmen voters in voting centres are intolerable and are contrary to the rules and regulations issued by your Commission, they are also against the basic laws of the country and must be denounced and the perpetrators must be condemned.
Iraq: Giant monument of shoe in copper unveiled in honour of journalist Muntather Al-Zaidi
January 30, 2009 at 12:42 pm | Posted in Turkmens | 3 CommentsTags: Copper shoe Tikrit, Laith Al-Amari, Muntather al-Zaidi
Photo AFP MAHMOUD SALEH
A statue built for Iraqi journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi, who hurled his shoes at former U.S. president George Bush, is seen in Tikrit, 150 km (95 miles) Baghdad, January 27, 2009.
An Iraqi town has unveiled a giant monument of a shoe in honour of the journalist who threw his footwear at former U.S. President George W. Bush. Picture taken January 27, 2009.
REUTERS/Sabah al-Bazee (IRAQ)
The Baghdad-based artist, Laith al-Amari, said his fibreglass-and-copper work was a homage to the pride of the Iraqi people.
TURKISH PRIME MINISTER RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN CLASHES WITH SHIMON PERES IN DAVOS (VIDEO)
January 30, 2009 at 11:38 am | Posted in Turkmens | 1 CommentTags: Erdogan in Davos, Recep Tayyip Erdogan
TURKISH PRIME MINISTER RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN FIGHTS WITH SHIMON PERES IN DAVOS
VIDEO WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION
Turkish PM Erdogan walks off Stage in Davos after Gaza Debate (VIDEO)
January 30, 2009 at 11:28 am | Posted in Turkmens | Leave a commentTags: Economic Forum Davos, Erdogan over killing of Palestinians in Gaza, Recep Tayyip Erdogan
(PHOTO AFP)
BRAVO MR. ERDOGAN!
DAVOS (Cihan) – Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan walked off the stage on Thursday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland after verbally sparring with Israeli President Shimon Peres over the fighting in Gaza.
Please click on the link below to watch the video:
Iraq’s Provincial Elections: Kurds are positioning their Peshmerga militias in front of the Polling Centres of Tuz Khurmatu
January 29, 2009 at 5:03 pm | Posted in Turkmens | Leave a commentTags: Iraq's Provincial Elections, Iraqi Turkmen Front, ITC Media, Kurdish intimidations, Polling centres in the north of Iraq, Tuz Khurmatu
Iraq’s Provincial Elections: Kurds are positioning their Peshmerga militias in front of the Polling Centres of Tuz Khurmatu
The Peshmerga stand in front of the polling centres in
Tuz Khurmatu.
ITC Media Kerkuk
29th January 2009
Yesterday, two police members, one of whom was an officer, have been killed in front of one of the polling centres in the city of Tuz Khurmatu (75 Km south of Kerkuk).
As usual, the identities of the perpetrators of these assassinations are not known.
As usual, the identities of the perpetrators of these assassinations are not known.
Using these attacks as a pretext, the Kurds have brought the Suleymaniya battalion from the fourth squad, known as Peshmerga, to Tuz Khurmatu and they have positioned 15 elements of this battalion to each of the city’s polling centres with an excuse of weakness in security. This, despite the fact that a battalion from the Governorate of Salaheddin had arrived immediately after the attack as has been confirmed by an official source from the Ministry of Interior.
When the Tuz Khurmatu branch of the Iraqi Turkmen Front objected to this procedure the Kurds suggested they would position their Peshmerga 200 meters from the polling centres. ITF refused this proposal and demanded the withdrawal of the Peshmerga outside the boundaries of the city.
The Iraqi Turkmen Front asked the government authorities to intervene immediately and together with other political parties ITF demanded that the security of the polling districts should be under the responsibility of the Ministry of Interior in order to ensure the transparency and impartiality of the elections so as to avoid the vote rigging and forgeries committed by the Kurds during the January 2005 elections.
Iraq’s Provincial Elections of 2009
January 29, 2009 at 11:59 am | Posted in Turkmens | Leave a commentTags: Iraq's Provincial Elections, Kurdish abuses in Northern Iraq, Northern Iraq
The Yezidis, Assyrians, Mandaens, Turkmen, Shabaks and the Iraq’s Provincial Elections of 2009
Dear Members of International Communities; Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, United Nations, European Union, Canadian Parliament, UK and US coalition forces in Iraq,
You’re Excellencies,
The Iraq’s provincial elections which are set for January 31, 2009, only few days away to come, there are hundreds of thousands of innocent Yezidis, Chaldo-Assyrians, Mandaens, Turkmen and Shabaks are worried very much about this upcoming Iraq’s provincial elections, again the Minorities are afraid their rights and hopes could be lost as they did in January 2005 Iraqi elections.
EU Funds allocated for the reconstruction of Iraq and the Iraqi Electoral Process
January 29, 2009 at 11:01 am | Posted in Turkmens | Leave a commentTags: EU Funds for reconstruction of Iraq, Paulo Casaca, The Hidden invasion of Iraq
Extract from Member of EU Parliament, Paulo CASACA’s (*) book:
“The Hidden Invasion of Iraq”.
Regarding the Funds the EU allocated for the reconstruction of Iraq and the Iraqi Electoral Process
Page 182 to page 187
QUOTE:
Being the spokesperson for the socialists of the Budgetary Control Committee, this is my most important responsibility within the European Parliament. I was particularly interested to know the whereabouts of the 800 plus million Euro that had been approved within the European Budget for the Iraqi reconstruction in the first five years of the post-Saddam era, and I was puzzled to realised that none of my Iraqi friends, members of the Parliament, Governors or former ministers, had ever heard of any European cooperation effort to Iraq.
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