In a shocking turn of events, the leader of the PUK Kurdish party in Kurdistan, Befal Talabani, has announced that they want to secede from the Kurdistan Regional Government. Bafel Talabani wants to establish Kurdistan 2 which includes the city of Sulaymaniyah and Halabja. Kurdistan 2.0 is going to still be part of Iraq but will no longer be under the centralized leadership of the KRG currently based in Erbil and controlled primarily by the PDK in Erbil. In fact, this means that there are now going to be 2 tiny Kurdistans in Iraq if this goes through. Important Note: Iraq grants any number of states in Iraq the right to establish a regional government under Article 119-121 of the Iraqi Constitution after meeting certain conditions.

In a shocking turn of events, the leader of the PUK Kurdish party in Kurdistan, Befal Talabani, has announced that they want to secede from the Kurdistan Regional Government. Bafel Talabani wants to establish Kurdistan 2 which includes the city of Sulaymaniyah and Halabja. Kurdistan 2.0 is going to still be part of Iraq but will no longer be under the centralized leadership of the KRG currently based in Erbil and controlled primarily by the PDK in Erbil. In fact, this means that there are now going to be 2 tiny Kurdistans in Iraq if this goes through. Important Note: Iraq grants any number of states in Iraq the right to establish a regional government under Article 119-121 of the Iraqi Constitution after meeting certain conditions.