For Kurds in Baghdad, the failed Kurdish independence bid provokes an identity crisis

BAGHDAD — The Iraqi Kurds' failed bid for independence has led to military confrontations in northern Iraq and leadership questions in the Kurdistan region’s capital of Irbil. But some 250 miles south, in a working-class corner of Baghdad’s sprawl, the vote has quietly provoked a crisis of identity. Akd al-Akrad, or Quarter of the Kurds, is a neighborhood […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/10/31/for-kurds-in-baghdad-the-failed-kurdish-independence-bid-provokes-an-identity-crisis/