Kurds Unite Front for First Regional Summit, Official Says
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Kurdish groups from Iraq, Turkey, Iran and Syria plan to meet for the first time to forge a united political stance amid rising regional instability.
The meeting will be “the first congress to be held on Kurdish land, and the first to gather all Kurdish parties and groups from across the political spectrum,” Kawa Mahmoud, spokesman for the Kurdistan Regional Government in northern Iraq, said in a telephone interview from Erbil. “The congress isn’t meant to form a unified, centralized leadership, but to unify our positions at a time of regional turmoil.”