there may be a coup in-progress in Kurdistan.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/...0S60HX20151012
Masoud Barzani's been President of Kurdistan since 2005. he was constitutionally limited to two four-year terms, but a law passed agreeably among all Kurdish partie) in 2013 extending his Presidency two more years with a stipulation it couldn't be extended again. the two year bonus term expired in August.
the KDP is Barzani's party, Sulaimaniyah is an opposition party/anti-KDP city
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The demonstrations turned violent last week with protesters attacking and torching several KDP offices across Sulaimaniyah province.
Monday Barzani fired four opposition ministers, blocked the Speaker of Parliament (a member of an opposition party) from entering the capital, and shut down an opposition TV station in the part of the country his party controls.
