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

A Referendum For Kurdistan?

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

Why not in Iraqi Kurdistan?

Religion Iraqi Kurdistan has a diverse religious population.

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.

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

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

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

The group now controls significant territory on two of Kurdistan s borders with Iraq and Syria.

Historically, some areas were labeled as being home to immigrants from Kurdistan and Balochistan.

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

Turkey s links with Israel, for example, have been strained by Israeli investment in 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.

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

Ziviyeh District () is a district (bakhsh) in Saqqez County, Kurdistan Province, Iran.

The Central District of Saqqez County () is a district (bakhsh) in Saqqez County, Kurdistan Province, Iran.

(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.

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).

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.

They continued to hold it for five more months, as the Province of Kordistan became the theater of the Iran Iraq War.

The Turkish military, however, oppose a high level dialogue with Iraqi Kurds on the grounds that the Democratic Party of Kurdistan (DPK), headed by Massoud Barzani, and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, led by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, support the PKK materially and politically.

A Kurdish newspaper based in the Kurdish capital estimates that around 50,000 Turks are now living in Kurdistan.

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

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

The Kurdish forces included primarily the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (KDPI) and the leftist Komala (Revolutionary Organization of Kurdish Toilers).

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.

On 27 November 2010, the Kurdish government officially admitted to violence against women in Kurdistan and began taking serious measures.

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.

But why to sit and watch them die? Young men from every corner of Kurdistan have taken up arms and are now fighting for Shingal.

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

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

Furthermore, Turkey is concerned about the possibility of civil war in Kurdistan between the two largest Kurdish factions.

Kurdish prime minster says kurdistan is open to refugees from mosul.

The incursion, which lasted eight days, could have drawn the armed forces of Kurdistan into a broader regional war.

After withdrawing its forces from Kurdistan in October 1991, the Iraqi government imposed an economic blockade over the region, restricting its oil and food supplies.

Mr. Hamid also printed 1,000 copies of a calendar showing a map of what purports to be Kurdistan, with the intention of distributing it among Kurdish students at Damascus University.

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.

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.