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What Nineveh’s Municipal Council Reveals about the Iran-Turkey Power Struggle in Iraq

SOMMER, Filip and Rebwar SALIH

Basic information

Original name

What Nineveh’s Municipal Council Reveals about the Iran-Turkey Power Struggle in Iraq

Authors

SOMMER, Filip (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Rebwar SALIH

Edition

Washington D.C. 2024

Publisher

Fikra Forum

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Účelové publikace

Field of Study

50600 5.6 Political science

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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Organization unit

CEVRO University

Keywords (in Czech)

Irák; sporná území; Ninive, Turecko; Írán

Keywords in English

Iraq; disputed territories; Nineveh; Turkey; Iran

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Změněno: 25/11/2024 15:09, Mgr. Filip Sommer

Abstract

V originále

Uncertainty and poor governance have fostered an environment of competition for power and leverage within Iraq, both between the Kurdish regional Government (KRG) and Government of Iraq (GoI) and between Turkey and Iran. These dynamics are generating new points of friction and hostility, particularly at the municipal level. Last December’s long-delayed Provincial Council elections in Iraq have opened a new chapter of political contestation between local actors and regional rival countries. Internal fragility within the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI)—particularly between the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK)—has spilled over into Iraq’s Disputed Internal Boundaries (DIBs), claimed by both the KRG and the GoI. Subsequent disputes within the elected municipal councils to agree on governor positions in Iraq’s DIBs have further highlighted these tensions.