Iraqi Kurdish Civil War

Türkiye has closed its airspace for the aircraft, which land/take-off at Iraq's Sulaymaniyah International Airport, as of April 3 upon the intensification of PKK activities in the region, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Tanju Bilgiç said.

Turkish president on July 17 condemned the armed attack targeting Turkish diplomats in Erbil, Iraq.         

I have known Safeen Dizayee for almost 18 years, since his days as the Ankara representative of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). Back then, Massoud Barzani and Jalal Talabani were treated as little more than tribal leaders by Turkish generals.

Northern Iraq, which the United States formed through the operation "Poised Hammer" it managed from the İncirlik Air Base for years, is today the main headquarters of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).  

The Iraqi oil ministry said on Aug. 28 it would challenge a U.S. court decision that stopped U.S. Marshals from seizing some one million barrels of disputed Kurdish oil docked near Texas.
   

It was June when Kurds came closest to gaining their dream of independence. Northern Iraqi Kurds captured the oil-rich Kirkuk following the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’s (ISIL) assault on Mosul on June 10. Following this, the President of Iraqi Kurdistan, Masoud Barzani, declared they would hold an independence referendum soon.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry made an unannounced visit to Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region June 24 as part of an urgent diplomatic drive to stop the fractious country tearing apart.