Military Holds Exercises Near Iraqi Border Before Planned Kurdish Referendum
September 19 2017
Turkey's military has begun an unannounced military exercise near the border with Iraq ahead of a planned independence referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan, reports the Daily Sabah (Turkey).
The Kurdistan Regional Government, which governs the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq, has scheduled an independence referendum for Sept. 25. The KRG has said that the vote would not trigger an immediate secession and would instead prompt "serious discussions" with Baghdad, reported...
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