kurdistan already suggesting17 Jun 2014 11:45
Istanbul (Alliance News) - Iraq's Sunnis would be advised to form their own autonomous areas, Nechirvan Barzani, the prime minister of northern Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, told the BBC on Tuesday.
"The best way is to have a Sunni region, like what we have in Kurdistan," he said after slamming the Shiite-led government of Iraq Prime Minister Nuri al-Malkiki for exclusionary policies which are making Sunnis "feel neglected."
"There is no trust right now," Barzani said about Maliki's relations with the country's key ethnic and religious groups, while stressing the need for a political solution to the crisis.
"If we think Iraq will go back like to before Mosul, then it is almost impossible," he said, adding that his Kurdish Peshmerga military forces would not aim to retake the country's second city.