The Prime Minister of Iraqi Kurdistan heads the Kurdistan Regional Government, the government of Iraq's Kurdistan Autonomous Region.

Erbil International Airport , is the main airport of Erbil city in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

I would like to convey the greetings of the people of Iraqi Kurdistan, which is part of Iraq, to the Assembly.

Kurdistan is a parliamentary democracy with a regional assembly that consists of 111 seats.

Since the fall of Saddam Hussein, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq has effectively established de facto autonomy vis à vis the central government in Baghdad.

Widespread economic activity between Iraqi Kurdistan and Turkey has given the opportunity for Turks to seek jobs in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Religion Iraqi Kurdistan has a diverse religious population.

Every province in Iraq can now benefit from Kurdistan's experience.

Duhok International Airport is an international airport under construction in the Kurdistan Autonomous Region in northern Iraq.

At the same time, the Turkish government is pursuing a separate path of negotiations, through a rapprochement with another Kurdish authority the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq.

There are at least 2 military airfields in Iraqi Kurdistan.

At the same time, the Turkish government is pursuing a separate path of negotiations, through a rapprochement with another Kurdish authority the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq. The grand vision is to integrate Iraqi Kurdistan into the Turkish economy.

I was in a village in the Kurdistan region in the Garmian area for a project concerning irrigation.

Most of the time, it's because of a dust storm episode happening in Baghdad, Basrah, or the Kurdistan Region airport.

Bapir is a former member of the Islamic Movement of Kurdistan.

As reported to the Centre for Islamic Pluralism by the non governmental organization Stop FGM in Kurdistan, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq, on 25 November, officially admitted the wide prevalence in the territory of female genital mutilation (FGM).

The experience of Iraqi Kurdistan shows truly that human development cannot continue to make progress or achieve the desired results in a society in which injustice and human rights violations prevail.

It is a source of pride for us that Iraqi Kurdistan has become a model for democratic experience, rehabilitation and economic, cultural and social development, just as it was a fortress for free Iraqis in their struggle against dictatorship.

But the United States remains adamantly opposed to such a deal between Turkey and the KRG, claiming that it would undermine Iraq s stability and fuel secessionist tendencies in the north.

Since the downfall of the regime of Saddam Hussein, the relations between the KRG and Turkey have been in flux.

After applying a reform in the Kurdistan Region in 2010, the structure of the UoD has changed to a Faculty System.

Turkey already supplies most of the KRG economy s imports, which accounted for 70 of Turkey s almost 11 billion in exports to Iraq last year.

By land, Iraqi Kurdistan can be reached most easily by Turkey through the Habur Border Gate which is the only border gate between Kurdistan and Turkey.

The KRG hopes that a deal with Turkey would allow it to obtain more regular and predictable hydrocarbon revenues.

(By contrast, reconstruction in Iraqi Kurdistan is occurring at breakneck speed.)

Iraqi Kurdistan has opened its doors to the international world by opening two international airports.

The first international school, the International School of Choueifat opened its branch in Iraqi Kurdistan in 2006.

But it is the incipient energy deal between Turkey and the KRG that is set to build the foundation for a real strategic alliance.

Relationships with Turkey are tense, largely because of the Kurdistan Regional Government, as clashes between Turkey and the PKK continue.

To further enhance cooperation, UNAMI held a series of meetings with the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, the Ministry of Migration and Displacement, the Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation, the Kurdistan Regional Government's Ministry of Humanitarian Aid and Cooperation, and other representatives in the Government of Iraq.

America s fears are not shared in Turkish government circles, where the deals between the US oil giants Exxon and Chevron and the KRG are seen as proof that America is more concerned about its share of the pie in northern Iraq than it is about alleged threats to that country s stability.

For the past seven years, Nabil Musa has been traveling often times on a paddle board or in a raft around the Kurdistan region of Iraq on a one man mission to promote the importance of clean waterways for the current and future generations.

In return, Turkey is to help the KRG build pipeline infrastructure that will allow oil and gas to be exported to Turkey without relying on Iraq s national pipeline, which is controlled by the central government in Baghdad.

According to the United Nations, because of the Islamic State, 200,000 Yazidis have fled various towns in northern Iraq and around 147,000 are taking refuge in the semi autonomous Kurdish regions, leading to the largest and fastest influx of refugees in decades.

On 12 June the inaugural session of the Kurdistan National Assembly elected Massoud Barzani to a four year term as President of the Kurdistan Regional Government.

The reason is Kurdistan.

Born in al Qamishli, in 1974, Kamiran Shemdin published his cartoons in Aljazeera website and Ge P magazine in Iraqi Kurdistan.

For the KRG, the deal would secure the region s future economic wealth without holding it hostage to an increasingly unsympathetic Iraqi government.

Indeed, the KRG government has long made clear that it respects Turkish sovereignty and will not interfere with relations between Turkey s government and its own Kurdish population.

And, if only for its own security, the KRG is attempting to extend its power, formally or informally, into northern Syria.

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Since then, of all the 4,500 villages that were destroyed by Saddam Husseins' regime, 65 have been reconstructed by the KRG.

The linked list is an incomplete list of the largest cities within the three governorates which are currently de jure and de facto under control of the Kurdistan Regional Government.

Iraqi Kurdistan has two border gates with Iran, the Haji Omaran border gate and the Bashmeg border gate near the city of Sulaymaniyah.

Since 1991, the Iraqi Kurdistan region in the north has managed to rid itself of the tyranny of dictatorship and implement successful development programmes, accompanied by a democratic parliamentary system and the rational investment of resources. Despite the scarcity of such resources, civil society organizations have managed to have an effective influence, and the region has shown itself to be open to the world at the economic, political and cultural levels.