Kurds withdrew the announcement, Muqtada rejects any kind of agreement with the occupation

Kurds with­drew the announcement

With war songs to mobi­lize the Kur­dish pub­lic, Kur­dis­tan TV announced their take over on Kirkuk province. Later Kurds offi­cials with­draw the announce­ment say­ing that it was a request from the Kirkuk province gov­ern­ment coun­cil [or half coun­cil since the Arabs and Turkomen are absent from the vot­ing].

Accord­ing to Al-Badeeliraq, the rea­son behind this switch is that a “neigh­bor­ing coun­try” [Turkey] threat­ened to mobi­lize its para­troop­ers to invade Kirkuk in case the Kurds offi­cially include the city to Kur­dis­tan region.

Turk­ish Prime Min­is­ter Prime Min­is­ter Tayyip Erdo­gan directly called Tal­a­bani ask­ing about the truth of this news, Tal­a­bani answer was: it is an empty threat.

Kur­dish offi­cial in Kirkuk told AKI lit­er­ary that the coun­cil do not care about the Arabs and Turko­man votes.

Muq­tada new announcement

Few points are interesting:

The first is that he rejected any kind of pact or agree­ment to be signed with the occu­pa­tion even a friend­ship agreement.

The sec­ond, he for­bids he fol­low­ers to con­front the gov­ern­ment at any rea­son, even if the gov­ern­ment is oppressive.