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The president of Iraq’s Kurdish region warned on Friday that the Kurds might be forced to retaliate if the central government persists with what his spokesman called a “very aggressive” stance toward the pro-independence referendum.

The Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) of northern Iraq pays money to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants in order to save Yazidi women who were kept as slaves, KRG General Directorate of Yazidi Affairs Minister Hadi Doubani has told daily Hürriyet. 

Islam does not approve of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant’s (ISIL) treatment of beleaguered Yazidi refugees in Iraq, Turkey’s top Muslim religious figure has said.

Religious Affairs Directorate head Mehmet Görmez said those who kill people due to their religion, force them to leave their homes and create violence cannot be approved by Islam.