Will the Kirkuk Campaign Lead to Regime Change in Kurdistan?
NOVANEWS
The Iraqi federal government commenced a military intervention in the Kurdish-occupied oil-rich city of Kirkuk.
By Andrew Korybko
Oriental Review
This area has long been disputed between the Iraqi central authorities and the Kurdish Regional Government of Northern Iraq, and Article 140 of the post-2003 US-imposed “constitution” decreed that a referendum was supposed to have been held here before 2008. Such a vote never took place due to the country’s dire security situation and misplaced priorities at the time, but the Kurdish-claimed city take part in a different referendum last month when they voted for independence from Iraq. The Kurdish military forces, or Peshmerga, occupied Kirkuk in 2014 after they drove Daesh out of the city, which they had previously conquered...