Acrê
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| Coordinates | 36 ° 44 ′ N , 43 ° 54 ′ E | ||
| Country |
 Iraq
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| Autonomous Region | Kurdistan | ||
| Governorate | Ninawa | ||
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| Residents | 23,088 (2009) | ||
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Akrê ( Arabic عقرة, DMG ʿAqra , Kurdish ئاکرێ, Aramaic ܥܩܪܐ ʻAqra ) is a Kurdish city and also the name of a district in the Iraqi province of Ninawa . The city has been under the control of the Kurdistan Autonomous Region since the second Gulf War in 1991 and was treated as part of the Dahuk Province .
geography
Akrê is at the foot of a mountain on a road from Erbil to Mosul .
population
The population is 23,088 (2009 calculation). Most of the population are Kurds .
During the Kurdish uprisings of the 1970s and 1980s, Akrê was considered a city loyal to the government, numerous administrative officials and members of militias loyal to the government came from the city and the district. After Akrês was conquered by Kurdish rebels in 1991, the officials and militiamen were persecuted as "collaborators". About 8,000 Kurdish families (more than 45,000 people in total) were expelled from the city or district by the new Kurdish authorities appointed by the rebels and fled to Mosul, which is held by government troops . There they settled in abandoned military buildings (Arabic: al-Qil'a ), whereupon these Kurds expelled from Akrê were also referred to as al-Qilaa Kurds .
Personalities
- Aziz Aqrawi (1924–2001), Kurdish general and Iraqi minister
- Haschim Aqrawi (* 1926), General Secretary (of the pro-Iraqi wing) of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan
- Hoshyar Zebari (* 1953), Foreign Minister of Iraq
- Huner Saleem (* 1964), director
- Hameed Akrawi (* 1946-2020), Co-Founder and Board Member Korek Telekom, Minister for Telecommunications, Autonomous Region of Kurdistan - Iraq
- Tariq Aqrawi (* 1943) Ambassador to Iraq, UN, OPEC, Austria, IAEA
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Kirschner: Risk of Returning Former Kurdish Collaborators to the Autonomous Region of Kurdistan - Iraq , page 4. Swiss Refugee Aid, Bern 2006
- ↑ Profile of Internal Displacement: Iraq ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Pages 12 and 36. Norwegian Refugee Council, February 2003
- ↑ Background: Dr. Hameed Akrawi. In: Middle East Business Intelligence. February 22, 2020, accessed April 10, 2020 (American English).
- ^ Iraqi Embassy Austria: CV. Accessed April 10, 2020 (German).
