In this file photo, the then-co-chair of the HDP Selahattin Demirtaş delivers a speech in Istanbul during a rally, Istanbul, Turkey, June 5, 2016. (Photo: AFP)
Iraqi President Barham Salih is pictured during his televised speech on the eve of Oct. 10 elections in Baghdad, Oct. 9, 2021. (Photo: Iraqi Presidency Website)
A member of Kurdish Peshmerga security forces casts her vote in Erbil, the capital of the northern autonomous Kurdistan Region, on Oct. 8, 2021. (Photo: Safin Hamed / AFP)
Displaced Yazidis cast their votes for the parliamentary elections at a camp in the Sharya area, some 15 kilometres from the northern city of Dohuk in the autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan region, on October 8, 2021. (Photo: Ismael ADNAN/AFP)
Members of Kurdish Peshmerga security forces cast their votes as he takes part in early voting for the parliamentary elections in Iraq's northern city of Sulaimani in the autonomous Kurdish region on October 8, 2021. (Photo: Shwan MOHAMMED/
Members of Iraq's Kurdish Peshmerga security forces take part in early voting for the parliamentary elections in Erbil, Oct. 8, 2021. (Photo: Safin Hamed/AFP)
Female members of Kurdish Peshmerga security forces cast their votes for the parliamentary elections in the Kurdistan Region's Erbil, Oct. 8, 2021. (Photo: Safin Hamed/AFP)
Members of Zeravani forces are pictured awaiting the opening of voting centers in the Kurdistan Region's capital Erbil, Oct. 8, 2021. (Photo: Renas A. Saeed / Kurdistan 24)
Viola Von Cramon-Taubadel, Head of the EU’s Election Observation Mission, speaks at a press conference in Erbil, Sept. 18, 2021. (Photo: Rebaz Siyan/Kurdistan 24)
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