Düzen Tekkal (center) posed with her parents after receiving the German Order of Merit award for her contributions to German society in 2021 (Photo: Archive/Düzen Tekkal/Twitter).
A firefighter checks the damage in an event hall in Qaraqosh, also known as Hamdaniya, after a fire broke out during a wedding, killing at least 100 people and injuring more than 150, Sept. 27, 2023. (Photo: Zaid Al-Obeidi/AFP)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (second from right) during his visit to the Hamdaniya fire victims at Erbil Emergency Hospital, Sept. 30, 2023. (Photo: KRG)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (right) during his meeting with the head of the United Nations Assistance Mission to Iraq (UNAMI) Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, Sept. 30, 2023. (Photo: KRG)
Pope Francis (right) tours ruins of the Syriac Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception (al-Tahira-l-Kubra), in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, March 7, 2021. (Photo: AFP/Vincenzo Pinto)
Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani (right) is pictured during his meeting with Senator Titus Corlatean, Chairman of the Foreign Policy Committee in the Romanian Senate in Erbil, Sept. 28, 2023. (Photo: Kurdistan Region presidency
