«Primary Results»(PDF). Kurdistans valgkommisjon (The Independent High Elections and Referendum Commission). 27. september 2017. Arkivert fra originalen(PDF) 24. februar 2021. Besøkt 16. mai 2021.
«Denise Natali: Kurdistan seems to be following rentier states’ path». The Kurdistan Tribune (på engelsk). 21. desember 2013. Besøkt 10. februar 2022. «Dr. Denise Natali – Senior Research Fellow, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, Washington DC – talks about the problems of Kurdistan-Turkey oil contracts, rentierism and chances that an oil dependent economy can lead to dictatorship.»
«Halabja: City of Peace becomes Kurdistan’s fourth province». rudaw.net. 8. februar 2015. Besøkt 10. februar 2022. «Kurdistan lawmakers voted Thursday on the Halabja administration bill in an exceptional session outside the official parliament building in the city itself. | It was the seventh time the Kurdish parliament had met outside its headquarters in Erbil, and the first time that legislators announced a Kurdish city a province. House Speaker Dr. Yusif Muhammad Sadiq called the step “historical,” because it proved that Kurds are in control of their own affairs.»
«Primary Results»(PDF). Kurdistans valgkommisjon (The Independent High Elections and Referendum Commission). 27. september 2017. Arkivert fra originalen(PDF) 24. februar 2021. Besøkt 16. mai 2021.