24.10.2017 - 11:31 [ Haaretz ]

Kurds Protest Lack of U.S. Support as Russia Urges Kurdistan to Remain Part of Iraq

(23.10.2017) Kurds were also protesting outside the UN Office in Erbile over the weekend. Those protesters carried some Israeli themed imagery including one who carrying a frame showing the portraits of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Israeli Prime Minister Bejamin Netanyahu and Iraqi Kurdistan President Massud Barzani, with a quote attributed to the lattermost reading in Kurdish: „I want to say before my God and before my people that I am not the person who disappoints them.“ Other protesters carried Israeli flags in honor of Israel‘s support for an independent Kurdistan.