Voting began on the independence of Iraqi Kurdistan
On the territory of Kurdish autonomy of Iraq has opened the polls for voting on the referendum on independence. On Monday, September 25, according to Reuters.
In particular, residents will have to answer the question:
You want the Kurdistan region and Kurdish areas outside it become an independent state?
As notes TASS, in total for participation in the plebiscite was 5.2 million people. The results of the voting will be announced a day later.
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 Democratic party of Kurdistan led by President Massoud Barzani.
Against the referendum acts Baghdad, and Ankara and Tehran. Western countries have called on the authorities of the Iraqi Kurdistan region not to hold a plebiscite.
In the United States stated that “the holding of a referendum in the disputed areas is a particularly provocative and destabilizing”.