The Right of Iraqi Kurdistan to Independence

This study examines the legitimacy of Iraqi Kurdistan''s claim to self-determination through independence. It analyzes the concept of self-determination people as the recipients of this right statehood as well as secession the legality of secession and the recognition of states founded through this process by the international community. The study is qualitative library-based and analytic involving primary data such as treaties statutes constitutions parliamentary and ministerial reports as well as secondary data including books journal articles media and Internet materials. The study concludes that Iraqi Kurds are an ethnic group who have been denied their right to self-determination and have been subjected to brutal widespread and systematic oppression by Iraqi governments since their arbitrary merger with Iraq following World War I. Despite the self-autonomy the Kurds.