Turkey wants Kurds to abandon secession vote

Mevlut Cavusoglu on Wednesday called on Iraqi Kurds to cancel a planned independence referendum scheduled for next month.


“Our expectation from Erbil is quite plain and clear: this referendum decision should be cancelled,” Cavusoglu told reporters at a joint news conference alongside his Iraqi counterpart Ibrahim al-Jaafari in Baghdad.

He said that he arrived in Baghdad to underline the importance of Iraq’s territorial integrity and political unity, adding that Iraq’s “unity and solidarity” was also benefit of the Kurds.

On Sept. 25, residents of northern Iraq’s Kurdish region will take part in a popular referendum on whether or not to declare formal independence from the Iraqi state.
  [aa.com.tr]
23/8/17