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The Diaspora’s Role in the Iraqi Kurdistan’s Independence Referendum

23/09/2017 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, The Diaspora’s Role in the Iraqi Kurdistan’s Independence Referendum

Independence referendum draws expats back to Iraqi Kurdistan

How some Kurdish Iraqis expats are getting involved in the region’s controversial independence referendum; New Zealand elections; the music of the Abatwa people

(Image: A rally for the upcoming referendum for independence of Iraqi Kurdistan at the Franso Hariri Stadium, Erbil, Iraq, on 22nd September 2017. Credit: Younes Mohammed/Getty Images)

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