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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Regional acceptance of a Kurdish state building project that transcends today s KRG controlled borders would depend, among other things, on the scale of the Kurds national ambitions.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Furthermore, since the removal of the previous regime in 2003, the KRG has been able to scale up its service delivery and infrastructure, which has changed the economic landscape of the region and facilitated a number of investment projects.

In contrast, any attempt by the KRG to establish a Kurdish corridor to the Mediterranean would certainly meet resistance, not only from Turkey, but also from other warring factions in Syria.

From Turkey s perspective, a confederation of Syria s northeastern region with the KRG might be favorable to continuing domestic Kurdish unrest, much less rule by the anti Turkish Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) along its border with Syria.

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

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).

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.

Because of ethnic politics, valuable farmland in Kurdish territory has not contributed to the national economy, and inconsistent agricultural policies under Saddam Hussein discouraged domestic market production.

A Referendum For Kurdistan?

The latter group includes extractive and construction related companies operating in partnership with the government of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) itself.

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

In India, the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi established an innovative citizen government approach to governance.

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.

Why not in Iraqi Kurdistan?

Requests the Secretary General to continue his contacts with the Government of the Sudan and the African Union to promote the peace process in the Darfour province.

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.

The issues of federalism, modalities for the formation of regions in addition to the existing Kurdistan region, the identity of the State, the role of Islam as a source of law, and the distribution of powers with respect to natural resources, including oil and water, were among the major points of contention.

Religion Iraqi Kurdistan has a diverse religious population.

The Australian Government was able to legislate in relation to Victorian outworkers because the Victorian government had referred a broad range of workplace relations powers to the Federal Government in 1996.

The Tamil Tigers led a ruthless campaign for an independent territory against Sri Lanka s government for most of the past three decades.

There are at least 2 military airfields in Iraqi Kurdistan.

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 program currently airs on DW Arabia and the Kurdistan based NRT Arabia.

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

On 7 November 2004, the Government of Iraq decided, based on article 1 of the law on national security, to declare a state of emergency in all of Iraq, with the exception of the province of Kurdistan, for a period of 60 days and with immediate effect.

Yazidis are an Iraqi ethno religious minority, who fled their homes in the ancient town Sinjar close to Iraq's autonomous region of Kurdistan and the Iraq Syria border, after militants from the Islamic State (IS also known as ISIS) defeated Kurdish forces there on Sunday.

The grand vision is to integrate Iraqi Kurdistan into the Turkish economy.

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.