Tag: Iraq: Independent Kurdistan

NOVANEWS By Dr Can Erimtan | 21st Century Wire  Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (aka the Prez) and his Justice and Development Party (or AKP) have been steering the state founded by Mustafa Kemal [Atatürk] (1881-1938) into distinctly Islamic waters for quite some time now… and as Turkey houses the largest percentage of Kurds in the region (14.7 million according to the CIA), solving Turkey’s Kurdish issue had been part and parcel of the AKP’s policy of Sunnification. The Prez and his AKP henchmen had namely devised a plan to transform the country into a nation of believers, firmly dedicated to Sunni Islam and moving away from Turkish nationalism. A Nation of Muslim Immigrants versus an independent Kurdistan But the Iraqi Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani now seems to have thrown a spanner in the works...

NOVANEWS © AFP 2017/ SAFIN HAMED Independence of the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan would allow to solve economic problems of the region and improve the relations with other states, Rowsch Shaways, head of the delegation holding talks with Baghdad on the independence referendum, told Sputnik. MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The High Electoral and Referendum Commission (IHEC) of Iraqi Kurdistan on Monday approved September 25 as the date for the referendum on the region’s independence from Iraq. In June, Masoud Barzani, the president of Iraqi Kurdistan, announced his intention to hold an independence referendum in late September. © AFP 2017/ AHMAD AL-RUBAYE Sovereign Kurdish State in Iraq 'Would Serve US Long-Term Plan for the Middle East' "I think that the situation af...