Polls Open For Iraqi Kurdistan Independence Vote

Iraqi Kurds began voting on Monday in a historic independence referendum despite the opposition of Baghdad and neighbouring states, AFP reporters said. The vote, initiated […]

By Channels Television

Updated September 25, 2017

Iraqi Kurdish leader Massud Barzani casts his vote in the Kurdish independence referendum at a polling station near Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on September 25, 2017. Iraqi Kurds are voting in an independence referendum in defiance of Baghdad and regional neighbours, as Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi warns of “necessary measures” to protect the country’s unity. AHMED DEEB / AFP

Iraqi Kurds began voting on Monday in a historic independence referendum despite the opposition of Baghdad and neighbouring states, AFP reporters said.

The vote, initiated by veteran leader Massud Barzani, is being held across the three northern provinces of autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan, Arbil, Sulaimaniyah and Dohuk, as well as in disputed bordering zones such as the oil-rich province of Kirkuk.

AFP