foreign diplomatic missions in the autonomous kurdish region. neighboring countries turkey and iran are worried that the referee. bowled in their own couldst minorities and are applying pressure with sanctions of their own. i m joined by journalist campbell mc diarmaid she joins us from here bill in iraq s autonomous kurdistan region campbell it s good to have you on the show we know that baghdad has proposed a range of saying sions if the result of this vote is not an old immediately are people in the kurdistan region are they concerned of what will happen next well i think we re seeing a bit of brinkmanship at the moment baghdad obviously had to respond and respond strongly and they ve got constituents of their own that they need to appease so what we ve seen those measures and talk about sending military troops to to retake federal territory i don t think anyone s in a hurry for this to devolve into right conflict but certainly people here are
was announced could issue authorities say that with the seventy three percent voter turnout the poll had been a resoundingly success. at this historic moment i want to congratulate you on the success of the referendum on the independence of couldst in our autonomous region and the areas outside the autonomous region which could just on claims. in baghdad the reaction couldn t be more different iraq s government opposes the kurdish push for statehood and has demanded an immediate an element of the vote. of position on the kurdish referendum is firm and clear we oppose the process because it does not conform with the constitution it has no legal basis and it lacks legitimacy its result has no binding power on the federal government in baghdad and no legal effect we will never acknowledge the results for a while and then i thought of the stuff that. iraq s government has already taken