Iraqi Kurdistan’s gypsies want to vote: No more singing and

[Kurdistano]

Look at these Gypsies in the Video, they all have Kurdish dresses, they dance like Kurds and speak Kurdish, so most of them are intigrated in the Kurdish culture. I think they are not a proplem for Kurdistan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcL90KSbU9M&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&hd=1   

Yes those might be, but you said we should take over Gypsies from the rest of Iraq which are Arabic speakers and not integrated to our culture. Are we some kind of well fare community?

[thesunchild]

Wow, this is new to me! But honestly I don't care about it.

After seeing them dancing Kurdish dances and speaking Kurdish I'm starting to have sympathy for these Gypsies.

I don’t think they have any ambition to harm Kurdish case and Kurdistan.

I would rather have 50000 gipsies in my fatherland than 10000 Arabs, Assyrians or Anatolian Mongols (Turkmen).

[thesunchild]

Gipsies in Europe known as travelers. They do usual work and business, not singing and dancing for living. They are a bit dispised. In Iraq and Kurdistan, their main skill is singning and dancing for living. If they try to politically integrate into their environment gradually they will lose their artisitic heritage as entertainers. But if that is what they want they should have it.

There used to be another sort of Kurdish gipsies in Kurdistan. they were known as dome u Qerej. They were not entertainers, they were skilled artisans in woodcraft. Once a year they used to come to out village to sell their wood products like bread rollers and others to the village.

Thanks for this information.