{"id":891,"date":"2017-09-30T16:31:15","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T16:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madaresharghi.com\/israel-played-role-in-iraqs-kurdish-referendum-turkish-president\/"},"modified":"2017-09-30T16:31:15","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T16:31:15","slug":"israel-played-role-in-iraqs-kurdish-referendum-turkish-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madaresharghi.ir\/en\/israel-played-role-in-iraqs-kurdish-referendum-turkish-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel played role in Iraq\u2019s Kurdish referendum: Turkish president"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Israel\u2019s Mossad spy agency has played a role in the recent Kurdish independence referendum in northern Iraq.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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\n\tDuring a televised speech in the eastern Turkish city of Erzurum on Saturday, Erdogan expressed sorrow that Iraqi Kurds had acclaimed the recent independence referendum with Israeli flags.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t“This shows one thing, that this administration (in northern Iraq) has a history with Mossad, they are hand-in-hand together,” Erdogan said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\n\t“Are you aware of what you are doing? Only Israel supports you,” he added.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) held a non-binding referendum on secession from Iraq in defiance of Baghdad\u2019s stiff opposition on September 25. Kurdish officials said over 90 percent of voters said \u2018Yes\u2019 to separation from Iraq.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile\u00a0much of the international community, including the UN, the European Union and Iraq\u2019s neighbors, has opposed the referendum, Israel has been the only entity to openly support an independent Kurdish state, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu backing “the legitimate efforts of the Kurdish people to attain a state\u201d of their own.<\/p>\n

\n\tErdogan vowed that Iraq\u2019s Kurdistan “will pay a price” for the “unacceptable” independence referendum.<\/p>\n

\n\t“An independent state is not being founded in northern Iraq, but on the contrary a continuously bleeding wound is being opened,” he said.<\/p>\n

\n\t“To ignore this reality benefits neither us, nor our Kurdish brothers in Iraq,” Erdogan said, urging Iraqi Kurds to “wake up from this dream” of independence.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnkara has threatened a series of punitive measures against Iraqi Kurds, including shutting the land border between Turkey and the region and stopping the transit of oil from Iraqi Kurdistan to the southern Turkish port of Ceyhan.<\/p>\n

\n\tTurkish carriers Turkish Airlines, Atlas and Pegasus suspended their flights to Iraqi Kurdistan for an unspecified period of time on Friday.<\/p>\n

\n\tBefore the Kurdish referendum, Ankara was boosting its trade ties with Iraq’s Kurdistan region, with Iraqi Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani becoming a frequent visitor to Turkey.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 2016, the business boom with Iraqi Kurds made Iraq, including the Kurdish region, the second-largest market for Turkish exports after Germany.<\/p>\n

\n\tHowever, economists have warned that closure of Habur border gate between Turkey and Iraq\u2019s Kurdistan could undermine $7 billion of trade\u00a0between Ankara and Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan region.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter the Monday referendum, the Baghdad government ordered the KRG to hand over its international airports in Erbil, and the city of Sulaymaniyah, as well as its border crossings.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt also asked the KRG to either cancel the result of the plebiscite or face potential sanctions, international isolation, and military intervention.<\/p>\n

\n\tA ban on international flights into and out of the Iraqi Kurdish region also took effect on Friday.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe KRG has refused to either hand over the airports and land terminals or annul the outcome of the vote.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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