Kurdish foreign relations are in a process of quick evolution as former foes become development partners, such as with Turkey and Iran, where there have been respective degrees of rapprochement have been reached.
While the strong irredentist urge of the Kurdish people over the centuries has always been to have a state to call their own, the one territory to have nearly achieved this — the Autonomous Kurdistan Region — part of northern federal Iraq, is walking a tightrope on actually pressing for full statehood in the near term.
Korek is a big player in Iraq now, “we have nationwide coverage. We increased our market share by 4 percent in less than a year: we moved from 11 to 15.7 percent.”
You cannot build an instant country, but since the 2003 fall of the Hussein regime, the autonomous Kurdistan region has been accomplishing something close to this with its rapid pace of business and infrastructure construction supported by a strong boom in the oil based economy.
For Nozad Dawood Fattah Al-Jaff, chairman of North bank, the goal is to be not only the largest bank in Iraq, but to be recognized as a strong regional player as well.
Newroz Telecom is building a high-speed broadband ADSL network in Erbil and Dohuk and laying more than 1,500 kilometers of fiber-optic cable, according to the Newroz Telecom website.
However, we see that there is a need for 350,000-500,000 houses while there are currently only 120,000. Moreover, the number of residents is increasing so the demand for houses is there.
Faces of Economy – Lebanon
FACES OF THE ECONOMY: Doreen Toutikian
There are 1.4 million workers in Lebanon – this is the story of one of them.
For Toutikian design is not about beautiful things – rather it is about the more serious purpose that design can affect social change.
The capital city of Lebanon is one of the most expensive metropolises for working-space rental; with a recent rating placing it as the 24th most costly in 2013 for office rental worldwide.
Among the small but growing band of investors in the Iraq Stock Exchange (ISX), the question most asked is whether 2013 will mark the start of a new bull market.
