Kurdistan Presidency Council

Turkey's president has said Iraqi Kurds could go hungry as a result of the punitive measures he is considering after Monday's independence referendum, BBC reported.

The parliament of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq voted to formally recognize the cantons established by the Democratic Union Party (PYD) in Syria’s Rojava region on Oct. 15.

Oil production from Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) remains unaffected despite an incursion by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants along the autonomous region's border, its Ministry of Natural Resources said in a statement on August 9.