Iraqi Kurds would like to add more territory to their current borders, according to a draft constitution before the Kurdish parliament.The proposed constitution will grab more land that will see the current Kurdish borders expanded close to Baghdad. The new map includes several districts which are currently within the provincial borders of Nineveh, of which the northern city of Mosul is the capital. If added, the current borders will stretch from close to Baghdad on the Iranian borders to IraqÂ’s international frontier with Syria.
The total area of the current semi-independent Kurdish zone will grow substantially as the draft sees the whole of the oil-rich Province of Kirkuk as part of Kurdistan.
Currently, the Kurdish region includes three provinces – Dahouk, Arbil, Sulaimaniya. But the map accompanying the draft redraws the provincial borders of the three provinces to include large chunks of the Provinces of Nineveh and Diyala as well as the whole of Kirkuk.
Many in Iraq will see the Kurdish move as a “land grab” but the timing of the draft may work to their favor. Kurds are part of the ruling Shiite coalition which is seeking to set up a semi-independent Shiite entity in the oil rich region of southern Iraq. Kurds are reported to have made their agreement for the Shiite move conditional on the government accepting their new borders.
The Kurdish territorial move, if passed, is certain to further anger and alienate Muslim Sunnis who are waging a ferocious battle to oust U.S. occupation troops and topple the Shiite-dominated government.
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