Kurds say Baghdad’s new budget is vengeful for cuts to their sector
Many Kurdish lawmakers boycotted the vote in protest of the parliament’s decision to cut the Kurdistan region’s share from 17% of the budget to less than 12%.
Kurds in Erbil, Iraq, on the day of the independence referendum on September 25, 2017.(photo credit: SETH J. FRANTZMAN)BySETH J. FRANTZMANUpdated:
