Kurdish Separation Attempts in Iraq: Push & Pull Factors

Section: بحث
Issue
Vol. 15 No. 49 (2021): Volume 15 Issue 49
Published
Jun 24, 2025
Pages
9-60

Abstract

Abstract We cannot consider the Kurdish secession from Iraq and establishing their own state as an easy matter, there is no state that would accept such a thing so easily. On the other side there is the party that knows well that his mission cannot be done so easily, so he has to do his best to achieve such a goal. In fact, there are pushing and pulling factors considering Kurdish secession, and sometimes one factor could be a double- edged sword, starting from the international situation to international laws and international support reaching to the domestic factors like the political and economic situation in KGR, the Peshmerga, the KGR relation with the central government of Baghdad and the weakness of the Iraqi state. Secession would undermine the state of Iraq and effects its stability, so the Iraqi government should handle the matter carefully by strengthening the pulling factors at the same time of curing the factors that push the Kurds towards secession.

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Authors

Dina Hatif Makki

Center for Strategic & International Studies/ University of Baghdad

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https://doi.org/10.33899/regs.2021.168461
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Hatif Makki, D., & دینا. (2025). Kurdish Separation Attempts in Iraq: Push & Pull Factors. Regional Studies Journal (RSJ), 15(49), 9–60. https://doi.org/10.33899/regs.2021.168461