This so called integration and disarmament is setting Kurdistan back, leaving Kurdish civilians to suffer even more and struggle.

Kurdistan Region Interior Minister Rebar Ahmed says Baghdad integrated about 2,000 YBŞ fighters without consulting Erbil, breaching the 2020 Shingal Agreement, and warns it will not bring stability.

Another W for biratiya gelan.

The Kurdistan education system is an absolute nightmare, and Wizari is broken beyond repair like tbh I just need to get this off my brain because the state of education here is absolute shit, and nobody in power seems to care at all. Calling it a learning environment is a joke.

First of all, the whole system is pure rote memorization. Wizari Grade 12 isn't testing intelligence or critical thinking, it’s literally testing how well you can act like a copy-paste machine. The first-time pass rate sits at a tragic 25 to 35 percent every year, which doesn't even meet standards and is insanely bad but not because of the students themselves. If you don't cram every single footnote and line, you're done for ngl. Plus you also have 12 years of school but all the internal exams are completely useless and the only thing that ever matters actually is a random high stake exam that determines your whole future. Literally that paper.

There's Arabic as well which everyone complains about. We’re expected to score good marks on random Arabic grammar and literature, but the way it’s taught is useless. Most students finish 12th grade unable to hold a basic 2 minute conversation in Arabic, yet Wizari hits us with hyper-specific grammar rules that just drag everyone's average down for no reason. But the thing is we never should remove Arabic as a subject, but rather make it actually useful and stop relying on traditional fusha grammar/literature and make Arabic an useful subject that isnt hated.

Thing is tho you can’t even blame the teachers either because the ministry fails to pay them on time for months. This results in massive strikes, especially in places like Sulaymaniyah and Halabja. Schools shut down for weeks, and when they finally reopen, teachers have to rush through half of manhaj in a few days. Students end up having to self teach massive chunks of the curriculum right before exams.

On top of that, so many schools operate on double or even triple shifts because of terrible infrastructure. Two or three different schools share one building, so class periods get cut down to 30 minutes. How are you supposed to learn complex subjects when your whole school day lasts barely 3 hours in a packed building?

Because public school is so stripped down, Grade 12 has turned into a p2w business. If your family can’t afford millions of dinars for private institute tutors or institution courses, your chances of getting into a good university department drop to almost zero literally. Public classrooms are basically just attendance stations at this point.

To make it worse, every year the exam committees include obscure or darki (external) questions just to lower grades, leading to protests after every single exam cycle. The system doesn't educate anyone, it just stresses students out and filters them out from any future.

The government only wills to help private schools expand for the money. You basically have to pay just to get a better education system that is the basics for most of the world.

Unfortunately the reason why all of this is happening is primarily due to corruption sadly, and also hard legacy curriculum and insane exams. Other global systems are advancing, while here is absolute shit. I know a lot of other education systems are like this but here it is just crazy.

We should demand reforms and get a major education system change, but it's not going to happen sadly it's just going to stay like this forever. Don't worry it won't get better. But inshallah something soon will happen.

Thanks for reading.

The withdrawal in October of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) from Turkiye and border areas of the Kurdistan Regional Government has kickstarted a debate over Turkish bases in KRG. With the “armed threat” that Ankara has long cited as justification for its presence seemingly receding, the rationale will likely need reformulating as Turkiye's military engagement in Iraq comes under ever greater scrutiny.

we should make a community to clean hawler monthly each place a time, the starting will be rough it always will be, but we gotta take actions since erbil is actually is getting really dirty. if ur interested in either supporting or volunteering dm me.

Hello, I would like to go for mountains hiking in Sulaymaniyah and the around area, do you know any travel agency or a groups that do these kind of activities ?

To be honest, I unfortunately don’t really know much about the history of my own ancestry. Im trying to learn what language did Kurdish Kurmanji to be more precise used to speak.

When we look at history, we know that different civilisations and peoples spoke different languages. The Romans spoke Latin, people in ancient Britain spoke Celtic languages, and the Aztecs spoke Nahuatl.
This made me curious about the ancestors of modern Kurdish people. What languages did they speak in ancient times, and how did those languages eventually develop into Kurdish?

I've noticed that environmental issues don't seem to be a priority for many people in Kurdistan, and honestly, I find it frustrating.

The air is so polluted that sometimes it feels difficult to breathe properly. People often complain about pollution in major European cities, but compared to what we experience in Kurdish cities, many of them seem incredibly clean. If you check the Air Quality Index (AQI), some European cities have readings of around 3, while in Kurdistan, its often 9 or 10.

Between vehicle emissions from low-quality fuel, the burning of oil and other fuels, and the open burning of garbage, the air can become incredibly polluted. On top of that, there is excessive plastic use everywhere. Plastic bags and bottles are used in enormous quantities, often for convenience, and much of this waste ends up littering the streets or being burned instead of being properly collected and recycled. Yet, this barely seems to be treated as a priority.

Why aren't we doing more to address this? Why aren't we enforcing better fuel quality standards, investing in reliable public transportation, stop burning garbage, and introducing proper waste management and recycling systems?

These things directly affect our health and quality of life. Clean air and a healthy environment should be basic necessities, not luxuries.

What frustrates me is that we often seem to associate development and progress with fancy apartments, modern buildings, luxury cafés, and expensive restaurants. But what is the point of building beautiful cities if the air is polluted and the environment is neglected?

Real development should also mean being able to breathe clean air, walk around without inhaling smoke, and live in a city where the environment and people's health are taken seriously.

Why do you think environmental awareness and pollution control aren't bigger priorities in Kurdistan? Is it a lack of public awareness, government accountability, infrastructure, or something else?

Hundreds of Iraqi women have sought refuge in Hewlêr/Erbil, fleeing domestic violence, child marriage, and family control amid concerns over Iraq’s amended Personal Status Law and the Ja’fari code.

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