Internal Divides Behind the Kurdistan Referendum

2017-10-11 · English · Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Contemporary analysis of divisions inside Kurdish politics over the 2017 independence referendum. It specifically identifies Kosrat Rasul as a senior PUK leader who backed the vote.

The analysis describes divisions within the PUK and other Kurdish parties over the referendum's timing. It identifies Kosrat Rasul, then first deputy of the PUK, as supporting the vote. This provides an independent contemporary source for his political position before the Kirkuk crisis.

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Kosrat Rasul's support for the September 2017 Kurdistan independence referendum.

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