Not in flight from London or fear of the consequences of UK rule but motivated by a sense of self-assurance.

BBC: Job centre

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.

NPR: Women's Group Slams Gaza Law On Gender Segregation

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.

ECONOMIST: Turkey��s Kurds