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Kerem Can Uşşaklı

Kerem Can Uşşaklı is a PhD candidate in the anthropology at Stanford University.

Securitizing Citizenship and Politicizing Security in Iraqi Kurdistan
Female Kurdish Peshmerga participate in their graduation ceremony at a police academy in Zakho district of the Dohuk Governorate in Iraqi Kurdistan, 2016. Ari Jalal/Reuters
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Securitizing Citizenship and Politicizing Security in Iraqi Kurdistan

It was 8 am on a scorching hot summer day. I was sitting inside a public notary office in a Kurdish border town, two kilometers away from the no-fly zone declared by the US-led coalition in 1991, and which separated the Kurdish autonomous zone from the rest of Iraq. In
Kerem Can Uşşaklı • 16 min read