Prominent Iraqi Kurdish leader tells party congress that northern region has right to self-determination.
Peshmerga’s success against ISIL reignites Kurdish ambitions for independence.
The President of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region Massoud Barzani has recently stated there will be a referendum on independence when ISIL is defeated.
Last year, Barzani postponed the long-planned vote saying the focus would instead be on working with Baghdad to wipe out the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant.
Al Jazeera’s Kim Vinnell reports.