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Intelligence and Security chief, Kurdistan Regional Government - Masrour Barzani

Intelligence and Security chief, Kurdistan Regional Government - Masrour Barzani

The Interview vor 8 Jahren

Will the recent Kurdish referendum deliver even less than what the Kurds have now?

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Seventy years ago, the leader Mustafa Barzani made a declaration
of Kurdish independence which was ignored. Last month, his son
-Masoud, won a referendum in Iraq intended to achieve it.
However, Baghdad says it will impose its rule instead. If the
Kurds are to succeed, Masrour, grandson of one Barzani, son of
the other, will need all the clout he's acquired waging war on
the group that calls itself Islamic State. He believes that has
earned Kurds the right to a state of their own. But with Iraq,
Iran, Turkey, Syria and much of the world against them, could
this referendum end up delivering the Kurds even less than the
autonomy that they enjoy now?