(31 Dec 2024)
IRAQ HOLIDAY MARKET
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Irbil, Iraq – 30 December 2024
1. Views of city park and market from the Irbil Citadel
2. People walking in market street
3. People shopping at shops next to the citadel
4. Sign at the citadel reading (English): "Welcome 2025"
5. People walking along street
6. SOUNDBITE (Kurdish) Sabir Hamad Amin, resident of Irbil: ++AUDIO AS INCOMING++
"Well, our wish and hope for the new year is to achieve something good for the Kurdish nation. The Kurdish people have suffered a lot, and were oppressed all the time. We accepted everything in order to avoid injustice, but still, no one is tolerating us. Also, we ask President (Nechirvan) Barzani to issue an amnesty for the prisoners. Prisons are overcrowded. There are too many people in the prisons."
7. Various of shoppers
8. People walking by market street
9. People walking up to the citadel
10. Various of people walking and standing around the citadel
11. SOUNDBITE (Kurdish) Goran Mohammed, resident of Irbil: ++AUDIO AS INCOMING++
"I have only one wish for the new year, and that is that the Kurdish nation unties and becomes a state. And I am talking in general about the four parts of Kurdistan. We, the Kurdish nation, deserve to be a state. We are no less than any other nation."
12. Various of food shops in market street
13. People buying food and drink
14. People walking by market street near the citadel
15. City Park in the city center of Irbil
STORYLINE:
A lively pop-up market next to the citadel in Irbil has created a festive atmosphere for Iraqis during the holiday season.
It is drawing visitors who are shopping gifts and essentials for New Year’s and Orthodox Christmas.
Local authorities want to use the market and the festivities as an opportunity to bring people to the city’s ancient citadel and boost the local economy during the holidays.
The seasonal market has temporary shops selling traditional food, clothes and home decor, among other items.
The market opens its doors from the afternoon until midnight.
With New Year’s around the corner, Irbil residents said they are hoping that 2025 will bring them positive changes.
"Our wish and hope for the new year is to achieve something good for the Kurdish nation. The Kurdish people have suffered a lot," Irbil resident Sabir Hamad Amin said.
A New Year’s concert will be held at the market street near the citadel, which has been listed as a World Heritage site by the the United Nations’ cultural agency since 2014.
AP video shot by Salar Salim
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