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The Kurds and Possible Iraqi Kurdish Independence (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date July 15, 2014
Report Number IN10105
Report Type Insight
Authors Katzman, Kenneth;Zanotti, Jim
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
Summary:

Approximately 30 million ethnic Kurds inhabit a largely mountainous region at the intersection of Turkey, Iraq, Syria, and Iran. In recent years, Kurdish populations have increasingly influenced regional developments, particularly given ongoing conflict and change in Iraq and Syria and long-standing efforts by Turkey's Kurds to obtain greater political rights (see CRS Report R43612, Iraq Crisis and U.S. Policy). These developments are of interest to Congress and the Obama Administration, in light of recent indications that the autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq may seek outright independence.