And nobody knows how many of the Iraqi Kurdish military are leaving the country, along with what might best be described as a tidal wave of youthful Iraqis who are leaving the country because they've lost all hope that the government can solve any of the political, financial or military crises that beset their homeland.
There are no detailed figures because often people are leaving the country illegally via people smuggling routes or they are arrested when they reach their destinations, Dashty Jamal, the head of the International Federation of Iraqi Refugees, told NIQASH. Members of the Peshmerga are just as desperate to get out of the country as other Iraqis, Jamal added.
“I came home on July 17, 2015, on the first day of the Eid holiday,” says Aram Kareem, an Iraqi Kurdish policeman who had been assigned duties in an area just outside of Iraqi Kurdistan's official borders. “But I never left for duty again. I sold my furniture and then I took my wife and three kids and I left the country. I've lost hope,” explains Kareem, who is now in a refugee camp in Poland with his family after using people smugglers to get to Europe, via Turkey and Bulgaria. The political crisis around the Iraqi kurdish presidency that seems to have paralysed local government for the time being , alongside the ongoing financial crisis, caused his despondency, Kareem says.
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