The Iraqi Kurds voted for an independent state. This is evidenced by the results of the referendum held on 25 September, according to Reuters.
As told in the Central electoral Commission, the referendum is recognized as valid, the voting took place without violations. More than 92 percent took part in the plebiscite called for the establishment of an independent state.
The conduct of the referendum has caused a backlash in Baghdad, as well as in neighboring countries — Turkey and Iran. In the United States stated that “the holding of a referendum in the disputed areas is a particularly provocative and destabilizing”. Moscow in this regard urged to resolve all disputed issues between Erbil and Baghdad through dialogue.
Earlier on September 27, the Iraqi Parliament addressed to the Prime Minister Haider Abadi, a request to send army units in Kurdish-controlled province of Kirkuk. The military needs to take control of the oil fields of the region.
Kirkuk is a disputed territory. The authorities of the Autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan in fact, her control and considered Kurdish land, while the official Baghdad claims that Kirkuk was never part of Kurdistan.
Iraqi Kurdistan is the unofficial name of the Kurdish Autonomous region in the North and North-East of Iraq, which has the status of a wide autonomy within the country’s legally enshrined in the Constitution. Included in this region’s province of Dahuk, Sulaymaniyah and Erbil are traditionally the place of residence of Kurds. The authorities in the region is the Kurdistan Democratic party led by Massoud Barzani.