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Iraqi envoy in Ankara says military force may be used to take border gate from KRG
Iraq’s ambassador to Turkey, Hisham Ali Akbar Ibrahim Al-Alawi, said on Friday that Baghdad and Ankara might use military force to take control of...
Turkish FM tells KDP representative not to come to Turkey
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has said he called the representative of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), which is the party of Kurdistan Regional...
93.2 percent said ‘yes’ for independent Kurdistan
The results of a referendum in northern Iraq for independence show that 93.29 percent of 282,017 people voted in favor of separation from Baghdad...
Erdoğan threatens to cut off oil flow from northern Iraq over independence referendum
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday threatened the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) with cutting off the oil flow from the region over its...
Abadi: More than half of ISIL suspects in N. Iraq camp are Turks
Turks comprise more than half of 1,300 women and children held in a camp near Mosul for suspected links to the Islamic State in...
Kirkuk council decides to join KRG’s independence referendum
The governorate council of Kirkuk has decided to participate in an independence referendum by Iraq's the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) on Sept. 25,...
FM Çavuşoğlu: KRG referendum may trigger civil war
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on Wednesday called on the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to review a decision to hold an independence referendum...