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Turkey weighs its options as Iraqi Kurds vote for independence
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Ankara is weighing its options in response to the Iraqi Kurds’ overwhelming 93% ‘Yes’ vote in their referendum on declaring independence from Baghdad. Turkey did not immediately go ahead with the most severe economic sanctions it has threatened, such as stopping food exports into the northern Iraq territory of the Kurdish Regional
Head of Romania’s anticorruption body probed for alleged misconduct
Iulian Ernst in Bucharest
Romania’s independent magistrates’ inter- nal control body, Judiciary Inspection, has started extended investigations into alleged misconduct by the top management of the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) in- cluding DNA head Laura Codruta Kovesi.
The Kurdish-inhabited area in the Middle East straddles the borders of Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria.
Government (KRG) or turning off the tap on oil exports flowing out of the region.
However, the situation was very delicate. Whether the momentum of the plebiscite victory might car-
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The extended investigations started immedi- ately after the DNA launched a probe into a case very sensitive for Liviu Dragnea, the leader of the ruling Social Democrat Party (PSD).
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