Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi casts his vote during parliamentary elections in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Oct. 10, 2021. (Photo: Khalid Mohammed/AP)
The Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani raises his inked finger after casting his vote in Erbil, Oct. 10, 2021. (Photo: Screengrab/Kurdistan24)
Lebanon's capital Beirut in darkness during a power outage, with the Electricite du Liban (Electricity Of Lebanon) national company headquarters in the foreground, Beirut, Lebanon, April 3, 2021. (AFP Photo)
A man is seen walking with a stick in the main square around Erbil's Citadel in the capital of the Kurdistan Region, April 15, 2021. (Photo: Safin Hamed/AFP)
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/
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