The safety of the Kurdish region of Iraq has been drawing families from all over the country ever since the US invasion dissolved into something approaching a civil war in 2003. Safe and stable, Iraqi Kurdistan is within reach for most of the population - both geographically and, despite rising gas and accommodation prices, financially, the place is burgeoning.
The Kurdish region of Iraq has always been a world away from the south - even during the brutally enforced stability of...
more »The safety of the Kurdish region of Iraq has been drawing families from all over the country ever since the US invasion dissolved into something approaching a civil war in 2003. Safe and stable, Iraqi Kurdistan is within reach for most of the population - both geographically and, despite rising gas and accommodation prices, financially, the place is burgeoning.
The Kurdish region of Iraq has always been a world away from the south - even during the brutally enforced stability of the Saddam Hussein era. His treatment of all those opposing his regime, particularly his genocidal poisoned gas attacks on the Kurds, is universally understood and there is a sense of unity there. Kurds, Arabs, Christians, Muslims and adherents of the Yezidi faith share a a sense of togetherness, a belief that whatever the differences exploited by Saddam, working together to retain the sanity and sanctity of Kurdistan is infinitely more important than religous or cultural divides.
In an Iraq rife with political and religious difficulties, all laid bare by the post-invasion power vacuum and AK-47-diplomacy, the north is the one place where the future is bright and the reality of that future is close at hand, regardless of old wounds and grievances.
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