Araz New: President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has once again reiterated Ankara’s stance on the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) planned independence referendum in northern Iraq, saying “it should not be carried out.” “Let me say this very clearly: We have always defended Iraq’s...
The referendum on Kurdistan’s independence, supposed to be organized on September 25, is a very important development as it would add more difficulties to the complicated scene in the Middle East. The Kurdish issue is not only an Iraqi one,...
Araz News:There is so little doubt that the referendum called for September on Kurdish independence from Iraq will pass overwhelmingly that it seems a waste of resources to hold it at all. To be clear, I do not oppose it:...