Unsettled political feuds complicating multiple regional crisis leaving Iraqi Kurdistan drifting | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

The violent protests that broke out in the Iraqi Kurdish cities of Sulaimania and Halabja are a manifestation of long-festering tensions and came as no surprise to “Kurdistan” watchers. But they may have as much to do with anger over delayed public sector salaries as they do with Machiavellian wrangling by parties involved in resolving the…