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Kurdistan Workers Party declares new self-rule region in northern Iraq |
2017-12-26 |
[Iraq News] The Kurdistan Workers Party(PKK) has announced the creation of a new autonomous region in northern Iraq, a step that could provoke more intense In a statement circulated by Kurdish media, and quoted by London-based The New Arab newspaper, the group declared a new autonomous region in Qandil mountains, comprising five areas. The declaration was made in the presence of "300 political figures", the statement said, adding that "the next step would be to elect an administration for the region and to start construction". No official response was made by the Iraqi government. The group has fought for an independent region for ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s Kurds since the 1980s. PKK and ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... attack that killed 32 Kurds at a town near the borders with Syria. |
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