Iraq’s Kurdish region is top of the agenda in Iraq’s current political crisis. The region has an identity very distinct from that of Iraq’s, and since 1991 has been de facto autonomous. The 2005 constitution stipulated that Iraqi Kurdistan is a federal entity recognised by Iraq and the UN, and the 2010 Erbil agreement with Baghdad outlined how power would be shared. But the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) has protested its lack of implementation, and relations with Baghdad are highly acrimonious.
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