Author(s)

Albertus Jacobus Meintjes

Cape Town, South Africa.

The Middle East is a constant source of security and diplomatic related issues that are made complex by the heterogeneous background of its people, with states such as Iraq home to a mixed variety of people from different cultural and religious backgrounds. The Kurdish people are one such group, with a storied history of strife. Most recently a referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan has opened the topic of separation and the formation of a Kurdish state. This paper briefly examines the problems surrounding such a move, looking at the Kurdish region and its neighbours as well as possibilities for the future, referencing a wide range of news sources typically unused by the academic community.

Kurdistan, Iraq, Daesh, International Studies, Independence

Meintjes, A. (2018) The Complications of Kurdish Independence. Open Journal of Political Science, 8, 1-11. doi: 10.4236/ojps.2018.81001.