Status: Nov 2023
The transition zone between Arab and Kurdish Iraq has been the front line of Kurdish uprisings from 1960 to 1975, a target of the Iraqi army’s genocidal Anfal campaign against the Kurds in 1987 and 1988, the site of the 1991 uprising following the first Gulf War, and the northern front of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.
In between these bouts of armed conflict, and particularly after the collapse of the Kurdish nationalist movement in 1975, the Ba’athist-led government also engaged in deliberate and systematic policies to ensure its control over what are now called the disputed territories by the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Kurds and other minorities, destruction of hundreds of Kurdish villages, appropriation of Kurdish and Turkoman owned land, distribution of agricultural tenant contracts for this land to mainly
Shiite Arab farmers from Iraq’s south, forced “nationality correction” of non-Arab ethnic minorities to identify as Arabs, prevented non-Arabs from holding positions in Iraq’s Northern Oil Company and other state-owned enterprises, and ethnic gerrymandering of administrative boundaries in northern Iraq. Since 2003, some Arab political leaders have accused ascendant Kurdish forces of employing harsh tactics in these same areas, such as displacing Arab farmers without due process, arbitrary detention of political opponents, and even pressuring minority communities to identify as Kurds. [Iraq’s Disputed Territories
a view of the political horizon and implications for u.s. policy- 2011 by Sean Kane]
Land Boundary Categorization
Boundaries of every property, and land, must be statuary recognized and categorized.
Responsible Entity: Ministry of Justice / General Directorate of Land Registry / Directorate of Land Registry
Documents
National ID and Residence Card required.
A copy of the land registry.
Time
(1) hour to (2) days
Fees
Reference to article no.(8) item no. (53) of Judicial law no. (114) amendment of year 1981.
7500 Iraqi Dinars in administrative fees.
7500 Iraqi Dinars for the designed map
5000 Iraqi Dinars for official stamps.
Procedures
Visit the relevant Property Registration Directorate to start the process.
Visit the Deputy Director’s office to authorize the transaction and forward it to the Treasury and Technical units inside the Directorate.
Visit the treasury to pay the appropriate fees.
Then visit the technical office to measure the property and classify (categorize) the property boundary by an assigned surveyor.
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