Kurdistan independence referendum

[Vlatko Vukovic]

Without Turk there is no kurdish.
Kurdish = Iranians adopting Turkic nomadic lifestyle.

Kurds deserve their own countries. Arabs have 10 countries, Kurds 0.

[Pahli]

Without Turk there is no kurdish.
Kurdish = Iranians adopting Turkic nomadic lifestyle.

Kurds predate Turks in the Middle East by at least 1000 years, they were already living in Eastern Anatolia before the Turks were around but this fact is always denied by nationalists for their own purpose.

[Kamal900]

Arabs have 10 countries

22 countries to be exact.

[Ghazi]

i support Kurdistan independence

[wvwvw]

Kurds deserve their own countries. Arabs have 10 countries, Kurds 0.

By the same logic there were already as many Slavic countries, and yet Bosnia and other smaller countries were granted Independence..

[Vlatko Vukovic]

By the same logic there were already as many Slavic countries, and yet Bosnia and other smaller countries were granted Independence..

Yeah, so?

[StonyArabia]

Previous referendum was held in 2005: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_K...ferendum,_2005

The Kurdistan Independence referendum of January 2005 that was conducted by the Kurdistan Referendum Movement alongside the Iraqi parliamentary elections and Iraqi Kurdistan elections of 2005, was an informal referendum asking the people of Iraqi Kurdistan whether they favor remaining a part of Iraq or in favor of an independent Kurdistan. The result was an overwhelming majority of 98.8% favoring an independent Kurdistan.[1] On 22 December 2004, a non-partisan delegation headed by Mr. Ardishir Rashidi-Kalhur, President of the Kurdish American Education Society met with Ms. Carina Pirelli, Head of the U.N. Electoral Assistance Division and staff, at The United Nations Headquarters in New York, to handover 1,732,535 signatures, which were collected endorsing the call for an independence referendum on the future of Southern Kurdistan.

Results:


For Independence:1,973,412
Against independence: 20,251
Total: 1,998,061
Percentage for yes: 98.88%
Percentage for no: 1.12%

Key: Green=majority yes Red=no

No way Mosouli Arabs have voted like that lol

[Halgurd]

No way Mosouli Arabs have voted like that lol

Mosul Arabs didn't vote in that referendum, only the Kurdish northern section of Mosul voted (like Sinjar and areas east of the river) but today you will be surprised. The Arab tribes of Nineveh province under KRG control have announced an official pro independence stance, as well as Assyrians and Turkmens of Erbil.

[Turkminator]

The Kurds in Iraq can agree with the Arabs on this point: However, Kirkuk and Mosul are doubtless Turkish soil. For that, anybody who is against it - we would buried them on this ground and wash them with their own blood.

[Luca]

No Kurdistan name on that map. There never was such a state as Kurdistan. More likely there was a state called persia, which just had a lot of settlers that moved westwards and later called themselves kurds