25 September 2012
ERBIL - Some 200 families from the Kurdistan Region who returned home after spending 16 years in Iran, Turkey and Syria as refugees, were each allotted 20 million IQDs (approx. 16,000) yesterday.
Shaker Yasin, immigrants' chief of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), said the families had left for the neighboring countries in 1975 and returned in 1991, after the Kurdish uprising in Iraq.
32 families were from Erbil province, 35 from Suli, 33 from Duhok and 82 from the city of Soran.
Yasin added according to the current statistics there are 41,000 families who returned home from the neighboring countries in 1991. He expected the number may change after scrutiny.
All the families will receive the fund if it is proved they left Iraq in 1975 and returned in 1991, said Kamaran Abdulla, immigrations' chief in Erbil.
ERBIL - Some 200 families from the Kurdistan Region who returned home after spending 16 years in Iran, Turkey and Syria as refugees, were each allotted 20 million IQDs (approx. 16,000) yesterday.
Shaker Yasin, immigrants' chief of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), said the families had left for the neighboring countries in 1975 and returned in 1991, after the Kurdish uprising in Iraq.
32 families were from Erbil province, 35 from Suli, 33 from Duhok and 82 from the city of Soran.
Yasin added according to the current statistics there are 41,000 families who returned home from the neighboring countries in 1991. He expected the number may change after scrutiny.
All the families will receive the fund if it is proved they left Iraq in 1975 and returned in 1991, said Kamaran Abdulla, immigrations' chief in Erbil.
© AK News 2012
