The Right of Iraqi Kurdistan to Independence

This study examines the legitimacy of Iraqi Kurdistan's claim to self-determination through independence. It analyzes the concept of self-determination, people, as the recipients of this right, statehood, as well as secession, the legality of secession, and the recognition of states founded through this process by the international community. The study is qualitative, library-based, and analytic, involving primary data, such as treaties, statutes, constitutions, parliamentary and ministerial reports, as well as secondary data, including books, journal articles, media, and Internet materials. The study concludes that Iraqi Kurds are an ethnic group who have been denied their right to self-determination and have been subjected to brutal, widespread, and systematic oppression by Iraqi governments since their arbitrary merger with Iraq following World War I. Despite the self-autonomy the Kurds.