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In the referendum held on 25 September 2017, the voters of the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq (KRG) went to the polls to decide whether they wanted an independent state. In this independence referendum, the voters were asked the following question: “Do you want the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) and Kurdistani territories that are outside KRI to become an independent state?” With a turnout around 72 %, more than 90% of the voters voted for independence. This note aims to provide a brief analysis on the legal nature of this referendum. For this purpose, I will first define the concept of the independence referendum in general and locate the Kurdish referendum within this concept. Then I will analyze the decision of the KRG to hold the independence referendum from both aspects of constitutional and international laws.  CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Şen, İlker Gökhan Independence Kurdistan secession 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/on-legal-aspects-of-the-independence-referendum-of-iraqi-kurdistan/ 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20170928-112844 170928 10.17176/20170928-112844 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)