Daily Telegraph: A referendum in Kurdistan will make the region like Saudi Arabia, where one family dominates oil

Daily Telegraph: A referendum in Kurdistan will make the region like Saudi Arabia, where one family dominates oil



Tuesday 26 September

Alsumaria News / Baghdad
The British Daily Telegraph published in its issue on Tuesday, an article by Josie Ensor entitled "The Kurds after a step of independence, but the fear still accompanies them," pointing out that the referendum will be a pressure on Baghdad or turn Kurdistan into More like in Saudi Arabia where one family dominates the oil sources for generations.

"The women came to the polling stations wearing the most beautiful clothes, and the men came in their beautiful traditional clothes to celebrate this historic occasion," said the writer of the article, adding that many voters were affected and their tears fell in joy on the occasion they waited long.

"We will eventually be one nation like Britain , " the writer of the article, Khano Darwish, 77 , said. "Our people fought a hundred years to reach this moment."

Abizaid and Darwish, "No one wanted to go ahead with the referendum, but today we are conducting this referendum."

The writer of the article, that Darwish is one of the 3 million voters participated in the historic referendum in the Kurdistan region of Iraq .

"Some believe that the results of this referendum will be used as a bargaining chip in negotiations with Baghdad or that they will transform the Kurdistan region into Saudi Arabia, where one family dominates the oil resources for generations."

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