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This article problematizes EU foreign policy towards the Kurds and emphasizes how non-state actors interact with each other. Developments such as the KRG’s own seat in the meetings between the European Union and Baghdad from 2015 onwards; the European Parliament’s support for the Kurdish issue in Turkey in the context of its democratic trajectory and finally the emerging status of the Kurds in Syria are significant. The paper focuses on EU foreign policy through the contested role of EEAS –a relatively new institution that conducts foreign policy. The study argues that EU develops ad hoc relations and employs the case of the KRI. It is noticed that even though EU exerts policies that demonstrate recognition by the international law; on the other it adopts a policy that does not extend the Iraqi frame. Finally, the paper attempts to theorise its implications for the IR discipline as a model that demonstrates interactions between non-state entities.
