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Barham Salih is the third non-Arab president of Iraq, which ethnicity does this refer to?

  • Persian

  • Kurdish

  • Turkmen

  • Chaldean

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The answer is Kurdish. Barham Salih is a Kurdish politician who was elected as the eighth president of Iraq in 2018. He is the third non-Arab president in the country's history, after Jalal Talabani and Fuad Masum. The Kurds are an ethnic group indigenous to the Middle East, primarily inhabiting the mountainous region of Kurdistan, which spans parts of Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Iran, and Armenia.
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