Largely free from Saddam's depredations, the Kurds have practiced the arts of self-rule and commerce.
Iraq's Kurds suspect that Turkey's real plan is to end their 17-year-old experiment with self-rule.
Mr Erdogan's government offers Turkey's Kurdish region money and investment but not self-rule.
Greenland, a territory of Denmark with a predominantly Inuit population, assumed self-rule in 2009, giving it control of its resources.
The new proposed constitution recognizes the pre-colonial right of the indigenous people to their territory, to autonomy and to self-rule.
The Serb side was prepared to toy with greater self-rule for Kosovo, but opposed any foreign military deployments on its soil.
Before the FBI seized the island in 1971, public support pressured President Richard Nixon to restore Native territory and strengthen self-rule for Native nations.
However, under pressure from Iraqi politicians, Mr Bremer agreed last November to bring forward the transfer to self-rule to this month.
In 1993, Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization signed a peace agreement outlining a plan for Palestinian self-rule in the occupied territories.
Even in the West Bank, run by a more liberal Western-backed self-rule government, most public schools separate boys and girls by fourth grade.
Though winning their right to self-rule in the zone set up after the Gulf war of 1991, the Kurds had to compromise too.
Benjamin Netanyahu is understood to favour Palestinian self-rule in an entity which has no army and does not control its own airspace or borders.
In other European countries where nationalist parties demanded self-rule for their region, regional government successfully met those demands, and satisfied all but the extremists.
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At a time when even the Scots and Welsh in Britain have won themselves self-rule of a sort, Corsican nationalists resent their relative impotence.
Because what they suggest is that our brave and creative and unique experiment in self-rule is somehow just a sham with which we can't be trusted.
Turkey is concerned that the creation of a Kurdish authority in the north of Syria could provide a sanctuary to Kurdish rebels fighting for self-rule in Turkey's southeast.
Correspondents say the French-speaking southern region of Wallonia fears that greater regional self-rule will deprive it of federal tax revenues and have a negative impact on social services.
The irony of this outburst was not lost on the Iraqi Kurds, who were long shunned by Turkey because their experiment with self-rule seemed a threat to Turkish unity.
Hoshyar Zebari, a senior member of Massoud Barzani's Kurdistan Democratic Party, which controls the north-western part of the self-rule area, believes that the Kurds have at last made some smart moves.
Mr Milosevic has been forced to agree to a deal that would return to Kosovo the self-rule it enjoyed from 1974 to 1989, when he himself brought that to an end.
The project also highlights Turkey's growing involvement in the region, a marked change from just a few years ago when ties were strained over Ankara's battle against Kurdish insurgents seeking self-rule in Turkey.
That is, to persuade Mr Milosevic to sue for peace on terms acceptable to the West: a withdrawal of troops from Kosovo, an internationally policed return of refugees, and self-rule for the province.
But before that can happen, the government will have to calculate what kind of self-rule it can offer Aceh, and whether this would differ from the autonomy options being considered for other provinces.
The United States hopes they will settle for a high degree of self-rule within Yugoslavia, giving Kosovo a status comparable to that of Serbia and little Montenegro, the two remnants of the old Yugoslav state.
These represent important steps toward Iraqi self-rule.
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Recently its prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has also engaged robustly in Middle Eastern diplomacy, mediating between Syria and Israel, talking to Iran and keeping a beady eye on the aspirations for self-rule of the Kurds of northern Iraq.
The appointment of Mr. Hamdallah means Palestinians are unlikely to head to elections any time soon, keeping Mr. Abbas in power as head of the Palestinian Authority, the Western-backed government that has a measure of self-rule over Palestinians in the West Bank.
Describing special envoy Richard Holbrooke's meeting with Milosevic, Clinton sounded pessimistic about the chance the Yugoslav leader would reverse course and accept the plan that would give self-rule to ethnic Albanians in the Serbian province and enforce it with NATO peacekeeping troops.
Also Thursday, the Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised to withdraw from 10 percent of the West Bank, a much larger area than expected, if Arafat's self-rule government quietly accepted construction of the Jewish housing development.
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