More than 500 Iraqi Christian families flee to Kurdish north

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Source: Azzaman (Iraq Daily)

The exodus of Iraqi Christians is continuing and 507 families have landed in the Kurdish north where security conditions are relatively stable.

Many more families have fled directly abroad, mainly to Syria, Jordan and Turkey.

Those fleeing to the Kurdish north are reported to be mostly low income Iraqi Christians whose meager resources will not make it easy for them to make ends meet in a foreign country.

But the Kurdish north, where Kurds have established a semi-independent state in the three provinces of Arbil, Sulaimaniya and Dahouk, is even more expensive than countries such as Syria.



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