DINAMIKA PERJUANGAN SUKU KURDI IRAQ DALAM MEMPEROLEH STATUS WILAYAHNYA DI IRAQ

This article discusses about the Iraqi Kurds efforts to gain the status of an autonomous region from the Saddam Hussein leadership until US invasion in 2003. This article telling the dynamic of negotiation betwen Kurds and Baghdad under Saddam Hussein on forming the peace agreement and authonomy government for Kurdistan region then Kurdish Role on Iraqi Crisis due to the United States invasion until the Kurds won a position in the government after the fall of Saddam Hussein. According to the Ripeness theory, I William Zartman argues that if the conflicting parties have felt a stalemate when each feels that the war that has been carried out has produced nothing, but only hurt each other, then negotiation is one of the solutions that must be taken. coupled with the theory of autonomy and federacy which determines the form of government of Iraq and the regional government of the Kurds. This study uses the literature method by collecting secondary data related to the Iraqi Kurdish Struggle. As a result, after Saddam Hussein stepped down, Iraq changed its government system to a Federal Democratic with a representative of the Kurdish tribe, Jalal Talabani as the President of Iraq and Nouri Al-Maliki, a representative from Arab-Shia as the Prime Minister of Iraq. The election of the Kurds into the government elite resulted in the granting of autonomy to the Kurds for the regions of Arbil, Dohuk, and Sulaemania with Massoud Barzani as regional president of Iraqi Kurdistan