Europejska i międzynarodowa reakcja na referendum niepodległościowe w irackim Kurdystanie

This paper attempts to analyse independence aspirations of Iraqi Kurds. It considers issues of legal solutions used by Kurds in regard to institution of referendum. The paper analyses problems which hindered cooperation between Kurdistan Regional Government and Federal Government of Iraq. Moreover it highlights uniqueness of the region in lights of Iraqi constitutional solutions from 2005. The author puts forward a thesis that convening a referendum in 2017 was too hasty and refers to international opinion being a reaction to independence aspirations of Iraqi Kurds.