New electoral center in Duhuk

DUHUK / IraqiNews.com: The director of the Independent High Electoral Commission’s office in Duhuk on Wednesday agreed to open a new electoral center in the northern province. “The IHEC agreed to open a new electoral center in Duhuk to allow 2,000 people to vote in the provincial council elections,” Biyar Douski told IraqiNews.com news agency. “The new one raised the total number of electoral centers in Duhuk to 33,” he added. Duhuk is 460 km north of Baghdad. Also spelled Duhok , Dohuk Dehok or Dahok ; it is a city in the far northern part of Iraq to the borders with Turkey. It has about 500,000 inhabitants, mostly consisting of Kurds and Assyrians. According to some sources, the name “Duhuk” comes from Kurmanji Kurdish meaning “small village”. Circled by mountains along the Tigris river, Duhuk, the third province with Iraq’s Kurdistan region, has a growing tourist industry. SH (P) 2