Uncertainty among Kurds as polls open | Iraq

Sulaymaniyah, northern Iraq – Walk into a cafe in the capital of Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region, Erbil, strike up a conversation about the referendum, and you will find customer after customer waxing lyrical about voting “yes” to the region’s bid for independence. Finding a “no” voter, or someone who will boycott the vote altogether is near impossible in the Kurdish region’s capital of