Iraq’s Kurds Grow in Power: Is Full Sovereignty Near?
A deal with Chevron (NYSE: CVX) is the latest in a series of
developments that have increased the economic and political power of the
Kurds of northern Iraq. If this trend continues, tensions between the
Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) and Iraq’s central government in
Baghdad may ultimately reach a breaking point. Syria’s civil war and
Turkey’s desire to solve its own Kurdish problem could ultimately help
the KRG, as LIGNET explains.
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