- 🇮🇶/🇹🇷 New: Befal Talabani, head of the Iraqi Kurdish party 'PUK', announces his intention to secede from the current Iraqi autonomous region of Kurdistan and create 'Kurdistan 2.0' which includes the cities of Sulaymaniyah and Halabja.
Talabani announced that his party would step down from what he called Erbil's "failed government" with immediate effect, and vowed to create a parallel government and institutions.
The announcement probably marks the first time in history that a non-existent country splits and creates a second non-existent country.