“We don’t want to stay within an Iraq that has failed,” he told PBS NewsHour chief foreign correspondent Margaret Warner in aninterview airing in full*on Wednesday’s broadcast. “Baghdad does not accept us. Baghdad does not want us as partners. Baghdad does not want to share the power and wealth, and it’s not enough for us.”
Bakir said Kurdistan is known as a “land of stability,” and it has taken in hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees and Iraqis fleeing the violence when militants under the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant took over cities and towns in northern Iraq last month.
“We have suffered a lot. We have had a tragic past. We deserve a better future,” he said in defense of the referendum vote.
He called upon the international community to accept the upcoming Kurdish vote, but even if the U.S. administration says “no,” he said, the vote will still proceed.
“With all due respect, it’s the people of Kurdistan who decide, and yes, we will go ahead.”
Det som bakir säger här är att krg har fått nog nu och att man tänker fortsätta med självständighets arbetet. Vet inte om det nämnts i tråden, men usa tillrättavisade Turkiet och Israel igår för att dom gett stöd för ett självständigt krg. Bakir besvarar detta och det finns inga tvetydigheter. Vi bryr oss inte om vad usa säger eller vill, det är upp till befolkningen att bestämma deras egna framtid.

det borde dock vara en självklarhet.