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Middle East Information - MEIC Issues and analysis of the Middle East: Conflicts, News, History, Religions and Discussions: "PRESS FREEDOM VERSUS CORRUPTION IN KURDISTAN
BY DR.KAMAL SAID QADIR Vienna-Austria

BY DR.KAMAL SAID QADIR

Introduction:

Low levels of freedom of the press are associated with higher levels of corruption. This rule is also the main reason behind the oppression of press freedom worldwide, including the Kurdistan Region.
Corrupt systems hate the free press, because it is simply bad for corruption. The press plays the leading role in detecting the crimes of corruption and making it public, what may lead to accountability.
This correlation between press freedom and corruption is much more obvious in Kurdistan, where official corruption has reached alarming levels threatening the future and national security of Kurdistan Federal Region.
Shoulder on shoulder with the increasing rampant corruption in that region, the oppression of press freedom, journalists, writers and intellectuals has reached also very critical levels, even compared with press freedom in most corrupt societies in the World.
An empirical investigation into into the legal, economic, political and social fields, in connection with the press freedom in Kurdistan, will lead us to the same conclusion, many other independent researchers on this topic have achieved so far. There is namely a strong correlation betwee"