Iraqi Kurdistan faces a deepening economic crisis as unpaid wages pile up

Iraqi Kurdistan faces a deepening economic crisis as unpaid wages pile up

A man waves the Kurdistan flag in northern Iraq. Felix Friebe / ShutterstockPublic sector workers in Iraqi Kurdistan, a semi-autonomous region of northern Iraq, have endured irregular and delayed salary payments for more than a decade. Many of these people are owed staggering amounts of money – US$50,000 (£38,700) on average, and as much as US$120,000 for higher-level employees. The region’s 6.5 million inhabitants have been caught in the middle…