{"id":2578,"date":"2017-09-24T15:51:37","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T15:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=2578"},"modified":"2017-09-24T15:51:37","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T15:51:37","slug":"on-eve-of-kurdish-independence-vote-a-warning-from-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/09\/24\/on-eve-of-kurdish-independence-vote-a-warning-from-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"ON EVE OF KURDISH INDEPENDENCE VOTE, A WARNING FROM TURKEY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/09\/KURDISH-REFERENDUM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2579\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/09\/KURDISH-REFERENDUM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"870\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/09\/KURDISH-REFERENDUM.jpg 870w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/09\/KURDISH-REFERENDUM-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/09\/KURDISH-REFERENDUM-768x417.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/09\/KURDISH-REFERENDUM-560x304.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/09\/KURDISH-REFERENDUM-260x141.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/09\/KURDISH-REFERENDUM-160x87.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced : New York Times<\/p>\n<p>By David Zucchino<\/p>\n<p>Iraq \u2014 Kurds seeking independence from Iraq came under intense pressure on Saturday from their powerful neighbor, Turkey, which demanded that Iraqi Kurdistan cancel an independence vote scheduled for Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey, the main link to the outside world for the autonomous Kurdish enclave in northern Iraq, threatened economic and diplomatic retaliation if Kurds carried out a referendum that the Turkish government called a \u201cterrible mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Turkey\u2019s Parliament voted late Saturday to renew for one year a mandate to authorize military intervention in Iraq or Syria if Turkey determines that developments there threaten national security. Turkey, a NATO member, is conducting tank exercises on its border with Iraqi Kurdistan.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at : https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/09\/23\/world\/middleeast\/turkey-kurds-independence-referendum.html?smid=tw-nytimesworld&amp;smtyp=cur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced : New York Times By David Zucchino Iraq \u2014 Kurds seeking independence from Iraq came under intense pressure on Saturday from their powerful neighbor, Turkey, which demanded that Iraqi Kurdistan cancel an independence vote scheduled for Monday. Turkey, the main link to the outside world for the autonomous Kurdish enclave in northern Iraq, threatened&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/09\/24\/on-eve-of-kurdish-independence-vote-a-warning-from-turkey\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ON EVE OF KURDISH INDEPENDENCE VOTE, A WARNING FROM TURKEY<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[299,1656,15,90,1655],"class_list":["post-2578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-and-strategy","tag-iraq","tag-iraqi-kurdistan","tag-syria","tag-turkey","tag-turkish-government","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578","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=2578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2580,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578\/revisions\/2580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}