{"id":2208,"date":"2017-06-07T22:32:40","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T22:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=2208"},"modified":"2017-06-07T22:32:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T22:32:40","slug":"president-barzani-iraqi-kurds-to-hold-independence-referendum-on-the-25th-of-september-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/06\/07\/president-barzani-iraqi-kurds-to-hold-independence-referendum-on-the-25th-of-september-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"PRESIDENT BARZANI: IRAQI KURDS TO HOLD INDEPENDENCE REFERENDUM ON THE 25TH OF SEPTEMBER 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/BARZANI.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2209\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/BARZANI.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/BARZANI.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/BARZANI-300x120.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/BARZANI-768x306.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/BARZANI-560x223.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/BARZANI-260x104.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/06\/BARZANI-160x64.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>President Masoud Barzani held a meeting today with the representatives of the political parties across the Kurdistan Region. During the meeting, President Barzani and the attendees discussed several salient issues including the upcoming parliamentary elections, the current political and economic situations and the issue of the independence referendum.<\/p>\n<p>The President, along with the representatives of the political parties and slates decided that the date for the independence referendum shall be Monday, September 25, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at : http:\/\/www.presidency.krd\/english\/articledisplay.aspx?id=E8ZKw7evZVQ=<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Masoud Barzani held a meeting today with the representatives of the political parties across the Kurdistan Region. During the meeting, President Barzani and the attendees discussed several salient issues including the upcoming parliamentary elections, the current political and economic situations and the issue of the independence referendum. The President, along with the representatives of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/06\/07\/president-barzani-iraqi-kurds-to-hold-independence-referendum-on-the-25th-of-september-2017\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PRESIDENT BARZANI: IRAQI KURDS TO HOLD INDEPENDENCE REFERENDUM ON THE 25TH OF SEPTEMBER 2017<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1550,1549],"class_list":["post-2208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-and-strategy","tag-kurdistan-region","tag-president-barzani","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2210,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208\/revisions\/2210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}