Masoud Barzani, the President of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), delivering a speech at the Barzani National Memorial ceremony, May 12, 2023. (Photo: KRG)
Mehmet Emin Yilmaz (R), a Kurdish farmer, speaks during an interview in Diyarbakir, southeastern Turkey, on April 28, 2023 (Photo: ILYAS AKENGIN / AFP)
In this picture taken on April 30, 2023, a man makes a purchase from a vendor near the citadel of Erbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdistan region (Photo: SAFIN HAMID/AFP).
Safeen Dizayee, Head of the KRG Department of Foreign Relations (right), during his meeting with Khalid bin Hamad Al Sulaiti, Ambassador of Qatar to Iraq, May 10, 2023. (Photo: KRG Department of Foreign Relations)
Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabollahian, left, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, second left, Syria's Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad, second right, and Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, May 10, 2023. (Photo: AP)
A picture representing the Twitter symbol is seen on a smartphone in front of a Turkish flag in Istanbul on March 26, 2014 (Photo: OZAN KOSE/AFP/GETTY IMAGES)
PUK President Bafel Jalal Talabani (center) chairing a meeting of the party's political office in Baghdad, Oct. 17, 2022. (Photo: Bafel Talabani's media office)
