Explainer: Malcolm Turnbull and the incendiary idea to partition Iraq

By Fergus Hunter
Updated January 22 2016 - 11:08am, first published 11:07am

This week, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull raised eyebrows by professing openness to a very controversial idea. He suggested that a partition in Iraq and Syria could form part of a lasting political solution in a broken region.

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