SULAIMANI (ESTA) — No power can abolish the Kurdistan Region, said the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) on Saturday following a provocative report that had been published by an Iraqi newspaper.
The Semi-official Iraqi newspaper “Al-Sabah” published a report on Saturday, saying “The Kurdistan Region people have lost hope in the Region’s political authority, and desire to be ruled by Baghdad,” according to a “Survey” that the Iraqi newspaper reportedly conducted among the Kurdish people.
The KRG in a statement slammed “Al-Sabah’s” report, seriously criticizing it by naming it a “bankrupt” newspaper.
“The survey is unscientific and far from the truth,” it said in the statement, adding “The Kurdistan Region people by an absolute majority voted yes for independence in the Kurdish referendum for independence on Sep. 25, 2017.”
However, “The Baghdad authorities back then responded to the referendum and people’s opinion with military attacks, using the army, and imposing siege against the Kurdistan Region people.”
“The people of the Iraqi provinces witnesses that the Kurdistan Region is years ahead of other areas of Iraq in terms of development, service, and growing,” KRG added in the statement.
“The Kurdistan Region has a legal and constitutional entity and it’s the product of the blood of thousands of martyrs and heroic Peshmerga resistance and no power can abolish it,” KRG stressed, according to the statement.
