[2][5] In 1991, humanitarian aid and a medical mission was organized in Kraków, Poland, for Kurds who fled Iraqi troops.

Nevertheless, this policy slowly changed with the opening of a Polish consulate in 2012, but can still be seen in the lack of military support for Kurdish soldiers (Peshmerga).

[7] In 2014, the Polish government sent eight tonnes of humanitarian aid to Erbil for the growing number of internally displaced persons.

[9] Deputy Marshal of the Sejm Stanisław Tyszka stated that Poland would approve the Kurdish independence referendum held in September 2017.

[10] In 2018, a tree named Kraków was planted in Erbil, capital of the Kurdistan Region, to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the restoration of Poland's independence.