{"id":2311,"date":"2017-06-29T16:46:18","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T16:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=2311"},"modified":"2017-06-29T16:46:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T16:46:18","slug":"the-time-has-come-for-iraqi-kurdish-tomake-its-choice-on-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/06\/29\/the-time-has-come-for-iraqi-kurdish-tomake-its-choice-on-independence\/","title":{"rendered":"THE TIME HAS COME FOR IRAQI KURDISH TOMAKE ITS CHOICE ON INDEPENDENCE"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sourced : The Washington Post<\/p>\n

By Masoud Barzani, The president of the Kurdistan region of Iraq.<\/p>\n

On Sept. 25, the people of Iraqi Kurdistan will decide in a binding referendum if they want independence or to remain part of Iraq.<\/p>\n

The vote will resolve a conflict as old as the Iraqi state itself between the aspirations of the Kurdish people and a government in Baghdad that has long treated Kurds as less than full citizens of the country.<\/p>\n

Iraqi Kurdistan\u2019s exercise of its right to self-determination threatens no one and may make a volatile region more stable.<\/p>\n

It will not alter the borders of any neighboring state and, if done right, will make for a much stronger relationship between Iraq\u2019s Arabs and Kurds. We are determined to do everything possible to accommodate Iraqi concerns in the likely event that the vote is for independence.<\/p>\n

Read more at : https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/democracy-post\/wp\/2017\/06\/28\/the-time-has-come-for-iraqi-kurdistan-to-make-its-choice-on-independence\/?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.f528421d4eae<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sourced : The Washington Post By Masoud Barzani, The president of the Kurdistan region of Iraq. On Sept. 25, the people of Iraqi Kurdistan will decide in a binding referendum if they want independence or to remain part of Iraq. The vote will resolve a conflict as old as the Iraqi state itself between the… Continue reading THE TIME HAS COME FOR IRAQI KURDISH TOMAKE ITS CHOICE ON INDEPENDENCE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[799,1199,299,488],"class_list":["post-2311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","tag-arabs","tag-baghdad","tag-iraq","tag-kurds","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311","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=2311"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2314,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions\/2314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}