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General Category => World News => Topic started by: DemolitionMan on October 27, 2017, 03:58:02 am

Title: Denied Again: Kirkuk and the Dream of an Independent Kurdistan
Post by: DemolitionMan on October 27, 2017, 03:58:02 am

Barın Kayaoğlu

In a closed-door meeting at a Washington think tank in late July, I had the opportunity to ask a high-ranking Iraqi Kurdish official whether he worried that Kurds might be overplaying their hands in Iraq and Syria.

I wondered whether regional powers couldn’t reverse the results of the September 25 independence referendum in Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and Kurdish gains against ISIS in Syria.


http://nationalinterest.org/feature/denied-again-kirkuk-the-dream-independent-kurdistan-22920