http://www.focus-fen.net/news/2017/09/2 ... riday.htmlAFP: All foreign flights to Iraq Kurd capital to end FridayArbil. All foreign flights to and from the Iraqi Kurdish regional capital Arbil will be suspended from Friday evening, its airport director Talar Faiq Salih said, AFP reported.
"All international flights without exception to and from Arbil will stop from 6:00 pm (1500 GMT) on Friday following a decision by the Iraqi cabinet and Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi," she told AFP on Thursday.Abadi ordered the halt to flights serving airports in Iraqi Kurdistan in retaliation for a Monday independence referendum held in defiance of Baghdad which delivered a resounding 92.73 "yes" vote.
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Former US Ambassador Ryan Crocker says Washington made 'mistake' criticizing Kurdistan referendumhttp://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/f9c1 ... 07ad5f3716ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – Former United States Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker on Thursday said he thinks Washington was wrong to come down so hard against the Kurdistan Region’s referendum. He also criticized Iraq, Turkey, and Iran for threatening sanctions on the Kurds.
In an interview with CNN, Crocker said the US made a “mistake” in criticizing the referendum when it was clear that it was going to be held.
The criticism “may have emboldened Baghdad to take a harsher posture than it otherwise would [have],” he said.
Crocker also urged Washington to “manage” the escalating tensions in the region, especially as Iraq, Turkey, and Iran have threatened to impose sanctions on the Kurds, while also conducting menacing military maneuvers following the historic vote...
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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – Former United States Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker on Thursday said he thinks Washington was wrong to come down so hard against the Kurdistan Region’s referendum. He also criticized Iraq, Turkey, and Iran for threatening sanctions on the Kurds.
In an interview with CNN, Crocker said the US made a “mistake” in criticizing the referendum when it was clear that it was going to be held.
The criticism “may have emboldened Baghdad to take a harsher posture than it otherwise would [have],” he said.
Crocker also urged Washington to “manage” the escalating tensions in the region, especially as Iraq, Turkey, and Iran have threatened to impose sanctions on the Kurds, while also conducting menacing military maneuvers following the historic vote.
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Turkey raises oil threat after Iraqi Kurds referendumMost oil that flows through a pipeline from Iraq to Turkey comes from Kurdish sources and a cut-off would damaging.Turkey has threatened potentially crippling restrictions on oil trading with Iraqi Kurds after they backed independence from Baghdad in a referendum that has alarmed Ankara as it faces a separatist insurgency from its own Kurdish minority.
Most oil that flows through a pipeline from Iraq to Turkey comes from Kurdish sources and a cut-off would severely damage the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG), which relies on sales of crude for almost all its hard currency revenues.http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/09/t ... 17752.htmlPEAK OIL********************
‘Free Kurdistan’ inevitable, and war may be unavoidableThe Sykes-Picot Agreement divided the Kurds among Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey in a contiguous region separated only by state boundaries. But despite these state boundaries, Kurds are deeply connected, extending all kinds of support to one another, and are one of the largest stateless ethnic groups in the world. Kurds became US allies in the 1990-91 Gulf War, and their importance for the United States was substantially increased in post-2003 Iraq.
The Kurdish Peshmerga are now the single most important on-ground ally of the United States against ISIS, both in Iraq and Syria. The US has, in recent years, armed the Kurds in both of those countries to the teeth, and nothing could be more unnerving than this for governments in the region that have kept Kurds marginalized for decades.
The referendum for “Free Kurdistan” in northern Iraq, which includes oil-rich Kirkuk, is unacceptable for the regional central governments. Non-Kurds in the region see it as the first step toward a domino effect of Kurdish separatism in all four countries having a Kurdish presence. As Kurds in Iraq have voted in favor of a Free Kurdistan, the Kurds in Syria (which Turkey sees as terrorists), supported by the US, are implementing a plan to establish an independent Kurdish parliamentary system in Syria.http://www.atimes.com/free-kurdistan-in ... avoidable/Bilal KhanBy BILAL KHAN SEPTEMBER 29, 2017 12:28 PM (UTC+8)
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