Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) President Masoud Barzani in meeting with France's Ambassador to Iraq Eric Chevallier. Feb. 2, 2022. (Photo: Barzani Headquarters)
A woman holds up a photo of Kurdish leader Selahattin Demirtas in a demonstration to protest against the Turkish government's policy on November 4, 2016, in Frankfurt, Germany (Photo: Boris Roessler, DPA/AFP)
Supporters of Iraqi Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr hold a portrait of the leader while performing the weekly Friday prayers in the Sadr City suburb of Iraq's capital Baghdad on Jan. 28, 2022. (Photo:Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP)
Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani, Iraqi Parliament Speaker Mohamed al-Halbousi, and leader of the Azm Alliance Khamis al-Khanjar in meeting with Sadrist leader Muqtada al-Sadr, Najaf, Jan. 31, 2022. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson (right) does an elbow bump with Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani, Sept. 17, 2021. (Photo: Ben Stansall/AFP)