Sources: Kurdish self-determination

10 sources. A working link shows that a source is available; it is not proof that the source supports a claim — that is checked by editorial evidence review.

• News analysis or explainer · Journalism

  BBC News, Who are the Kurds? (BBC, First published 21 October 2014; updated 15 October 2019) link

  Explainer last updated in 2019; used only for dated background. Its statement that the KRG was created in 2005 conflicts with the Kurdistan Parliament’s account of 1992 and is not used.

  Cited on: Kurdish self-determination, History of Kurdish self-determination projects, Kurdish self-determination: status by state context · Source record

• News report · Journalism

  Ihsan, Mohammed, KDP, PUK Near Deal on New Kurdistan Government, Official Says (Kurdistan24, 16 August 2026) link

  Reports statements by a KDP official. The most recent report on government formation found in this research pass.

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• NGO or research institute report · Independent publication

  International Centre for Defence and Security, A Hundred Years of Attempts to Create an Independent Kurdistan (International Centre for Defence and Security (Tallinn), 19 December 2017) link

  Analytical essay by a defence and security think tank; the authors’ names were not shown on the page as retrieved. Its evaluative judgements are attributed, not adopted. Locators are section headings.

  Cited on: Kurdish self-determination, History of Kurdish self-determination projects · Source record

• Website · Government perspective or primary official source

  Kurdistan Parliament – Iraq, پەرلەمانی کوردستان (Kurdistan Parliament, Sorani home page) (Kurdistan Parliament) link

  Used to verify Sorani name forms in official use (site title and address line) and the date of the first session of the sixth term.

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• Government publication · Government perspective or primary official source

  Kurdistan Parliament – Iraq, History of Parliament (Kurdistan Parliament) link

  The regional parliament’s own account of its origins; locators are paragraph numbers counted on the page.

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• Treaty or agreement text · Government perspective or primary official source

  Principal Allied Powers and Turkey, Treaty of Peace with Turkey, signed at Sèvres, August 10, 1920 (His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1920) link

  UK command paper text, scanned; read by optical character recognition. Part III, Section III (Kurdistan), articles 62–64, printed page 21.

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• Legislation · Government perspective or primary official source

  Republic of Iraq, Iraq’s Constitution of 2005 (Constitute Project, 2005) link

  English translation distributed by the Comparative Constitutions Project.

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• Intergovernmental document · Intergovernmental organisation

  United Nations Secretary-General, Report of the Secretary-General pursuant to resolution 2367 (2017) (United Nations, 19 October 2017) link

  UN Assistance Mission for Iraq reporting; section II.A covers the referendum. Locators are paragraph and page numbers.

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• Intergovernmental document · Intergovernmental organisation

  United Nations Secretary-General, Report of the Secretary-General pursuant to resolution 2367 (2017) (United Nations, 17 January 2018) link

  Covers the aftermath of the referendum and the federal Supreme Court ruling. Locators are paragraph and page numbers.

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• News analysis or explainer · Independent publication

  van Wilgenburg, Wladimir, Kurdish Rebel Groups Are Wary of Tehran’s Next Move (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Diwan), July 2026) link

  Commentary; used only for a minimal, attributed note on 2026 events affecting Iranian Kurdish groups in Iraqi Kurdistan.

  Cited on: Kurdish self-determination, History of Kurdish self-determination projects, Kurdish self-determination: status by state context · Source record