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Dohuk Dam

Posted by James Turnbull, Tuesday, 30th May 2006

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Taking its name from the nearby city of Dohuk, also spelled Dahuk, Dohuk Dam supplies the city with drinking water and has a 45m wide Kurdistan flag painted onto the Dam. Top to bottom the flag is red, white and green with a yellow sun in the middle.

Dohuk is located in Iraqi Kurdistan, an autonomous political entity located in Northern Iraq, although Kurdish nationalists call this “South Kurdistan” with “North Kurdistan” being in, uh, Southeast Turkey. I’m confused.

So, despite being technically in Iraq, the people here proudly fly the flag of Kurdistan and painted it on their dam – unlike the Kurdish regions of neighbouring countries Iran, Syria, and Turkey – where flying the flag is a criminal offence.

Thanks: Rawand Nawroly & J. L. Precup

Countries: Iraq

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4 Responses to 'Dohuk Dam'

  1. xf says:
    Tuesday, 30th May 2006 at 7:55 pm

    Seems like Tirol… South Tirol is in Northern Italy and North Tirol is in Southern Austria.. :-D :-P

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  2. Keith T. says:
    Tuesday, 30th May 2006 at 9:47 pm

    why are you confused? look at a map of iraq and turkey. oh, and compare it with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdistan .

    While we’re on the subject of nations which have flagrantly refused to accede to UN accords… oh, nevermind.

    PS: what do people think of the trend of GM using local language and alphabet to title country maps? makes it kind of difficult for non-locals to interpret. See not only Japan but also Greece and Moscow. User-localized place names would be a wonderful idea…

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  3. vavavoom says:
    Saturday, 12th May 2007 at 2:15 am

    i so agree with the last paragraph… it is obviouse

    vava vooom

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  4. hanarasoor says:
    Friday, 15th June 2007 at 8:29 pm

    is he again bullshitingggggg. man get a life

    Reply

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