Kurdistan independence referendum 2017
Iraqi Kurdistan is voting today on whether to declare independence from the Republic of Iraq
The polls for Iraqi Kurdistan's independence referendum closed at 7PM GMT after voting was extended for an hour https://t.co/1G8bfWbC0x pic.twitter.com/vSF91mcgrN
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) September 25, 2017A 90 years old #Christian voted Yes in the #Kurdistan Region's independence referendum. #TwitterKurds #YesKurdistan pic.twitter.com/BX5QkpNqg4
— Kurdistan 24 English (@K24English) September 25, 2017
Good luck to the Kurds. The world's newest sovereign state could be about to be born.
I support Kurdish independence and have done for a long time. The Kurds aren't backwards like the Arabs of the region, Islam doesn't have a chokehold there, Jews and Christians are safe there, women are free and even fight (without headscarves) and it should have been granted independence when British and French divided the region after World War I following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. Iraq isn't a real nation but Kurdistan is.
Not much Iraq can actually do about this either. The Kurds are in complete control of their territories at the moment following the collapse of the Iraqi army in the face of Islamic State two years ago, and Iraq doesn't have the strength to forcibly take back Kurdish areas. It really looks like the real deal at the moment.
Thoughts?
