Global silence toward Kurdistan independence ‘morally unacceptable’
The global community’s silence toward the people of Kurdistan in their ongoing calls for independence is “morally unacceptable,” a British-American physician said at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism’s (ICT) annual conference in Israel.
In her keynote address during the first day of the 18th annual ICT conference in Herzliya on Sept. 3, Dr. Qanta Ahmed, Associate Professor of Medicine at the State University of New York, said the world should back the Kurdistan Region’s push for independence.
Ahmed said she had spoken to many Kurdish friends who “feel desolate” about the world’s reaction to Kurdistan’s fight for self-determination.
Recalling Kurdistan’s historic independence referendum on Sept. 25, 2017, where at least 93 percent of voters chose yes for secession from Iraq, the British-American physician said there was only “global silence” after the vote.
“All the nations that use the Kurdish Peshmerga to fight the battles on the ground, though Kurds do admit they’ve got great support from the United States, were silent. And this to me is morally unacceptable.”
