{"id":2402,"date":"2008-08-11T18:44:17","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T15:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=2402"},"modified":"2023-04-02T12:52:26","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T09:52:26","slug":"iraqs-constitution-kirkuk-and-the-disputed-territories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2008\/08\/11\/iraqs-constitution-kirkuk-and-the-disputed-territories\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq&#8217;s Constitution, Kirkuk and the Disputed Territories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iraq&#8217;s Constitution, Kirkuk and the Disputed Territories<br \/>\nBrendan O&#8217;Leary and David Bateman, UPenn<br \/>\n. org\/docs\/ pdf_files\/ OLeary_Paper. pdf<\/p>\n<p>POWER POINT PRESENTATION (PAY ATTENTION TO MAPS)<br \/>\n. org\/docs\/ pdf_files\/ OLeary_SLIDES. pdf<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--~-|**|PrettyHtmlStart|**|-~--><span style=\"color: white;\">__._,_.___<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start the section with Message In topic --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under Iraq\u2019s constitution of 2005 the political status of the \u201cgovernorate\u201d (province) of Kirkuk, and other disputed territories, was scheduled to be formally resolved by the end of December 2007. The prospective referendum affecting the status of Kirkuk governorate was, by agreement, postponed for six months, until the summer of 2008. The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and all Kurds within it ardently want to unify with the relevant disputed territories, either by referendum or agreement.i The constitutional obligation to fulfill Article 140 remains a constitutional imperative, and the KRG and the people of the Kurdistan Region are able to block any proposed amendment to Iraq\u2019s constitution, which would modify Article 140.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":30672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[166],"class_list":["post-2402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iraq","tag-kerkuk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}