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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced that the Turkish Army deployed on the border with Iraq’s Kurdistan Region is ready to take “necessary steps” towards the region that holds an independence referendum.
Erdogan added that the separatist movement as “unacceptable at this time” and political, economic, trade and security steps will be taken over the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) actions.
On Monday morming, voting started at polls in the area controlled by the KRG’s military forces, Peshmerga, in northern Iraq.