1. But on the day of reckoning a divided Kurdistan could be a fatally weakened one.

2. Our listener question this week comes from Iraqi Kurdistan.

3. Addax also owns oil fields in Kurdistan.

4. Iraqi Kurdistan is stable, self-ruling and economically vibrant.

5. Secretary Gates spent his final hours in Iraqi Kurdistan, meeting with the President of the semi-autonomous region, Massoud Barzani.

6. Turkey shudders at the thought of a Kurdistan that might some day absorb Turkey's substantial Kurdish minority.

7. Iraqi Kurdistan was de facto independent from the central Iraqi government between the Persian Gulf War and the Iraq War, but could not declare statehood out of fear of losing international support.

8. Exports of crude from Kurdistan started last week, after being blocked for years as the central government and the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) fought over revenue sharing.

9. At least 23 members of the rebel Kurdistan Workers Party, or the PKK, are also killed in the fighting.

10. The attack was blamed on the Kurdistan Workers Party and is the latest event behind the escalation between the Turkish armed forces and the PKK.

11. Turkey maintains Kurdish extremists - members of the Kurdistan Workers Party, known as the PKK - have been launching attacks from northern Iraq on Turkish military personnel and civilians.

12. Mr. Talabani's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) party has traditionally been close to Iran.

13. Recent reports from Iranian Kurdistan, for example, speak of 100 or more checkpoints being erected by Revolutionary Guards and the shelling of PJAK positions inside northern Iraq.

14. On top of this, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) inside Turkey also once tried to train female suicide commandos .

15. The Kurdish rebels from the Kurdistan Workers Party, the PKK, say their losses are much lower, though none of the figures can be independently verified.

16. The conference agreed to set up a base in Kurdistan,[ ] including a broadcasting station.

17. As many as 16 million of the 20 million Kurds in Kurdistan may be watching at the weekend.

18. Concerning the revival of Kurdish terrorism, the army is privately warning that it will close down the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) camps in neighboring Iraq if no one else does.

19. The nomadic tribes live in the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan as they have for thousands of years. The shepherds travel from place to place and raise sheep.

20. Hallah wears the stylish tunic and pantaloons common in Kurdistan.

21. The Turkish air force launched a series of air strikes Saturday and early Sunday against bases of the Kurdistan Workers Party in northern Iraq.

22. The London and Toronto-listed company, as well as controlling resources off west Africa, also has oil assets in Iraqi Kurdistan close to Emerald's in north-east Syria on the Iraq border.

23. The attack is being blamed on Kurdish rebels of the Kurdistan workers Party.

24. Tensions between Turkey and Kurdish rebels have been on the rise as Istanbul has stepped up its campaign against the Kurdistan Workers Party in response to increased attacks by the group.

25. In Iraq, it operates in two fields in the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan including the Taq Taq field, where it is sitting on 42.5 million barrels of proven and probable reserves.

26. On Monday several hundred students in Irbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, protested the Turkish raid.

27. None of the underlying questions, the balance of power between Sunnis and Shiites, what should be the relations of Kurdistan to the rest of the country, have been settled.

28. He says the Kurdish government allowed cronies to profit from an oil deal, which should have been strictly between Kurdistan and the foreign oil company that won the contract.

29. S. would be welcome to establish long - term bases in the Kurdistan autonomous region of northern Iraq.

30. A vicious separatist campaign launched by rebels of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has been raging since 1984.

31. Sarah Shourd and the other Americans maintain they accidentally crossed into Iran while hiking in Iraqi Kurdistan.

32. The nomadic tribes live in the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan as they have for thousands of years.

33. He and Massoud Barzani, president of the Kurdistan Regional Government, who heads the KDP, one of two rival parties that jointly run Iraqi Kurdistan, are increasingly rude to each other.

34. The local militia was formed in 1985 by the government to fight against the Kurdish insurgency of the Kurdistan workers party (PKK).

35. Welcome to Iraqi Kurdistan An American backpacking in Baghdad would have a life expectancy of about 20 minutes.

36. Turkish President Gul told Talabani that he hoped that with the support of Iraqi leaders, especially those from Kurdistan, it would be possible to eliminate the cross-border activities of the PKK.

37. The Addax deal will give Sinopec a strong foothold in oil-rich West Africa and Iraqi Kurdistan and a steady supply of oil for its refining operations.

38. Exports of crude from Kurdistan started last week, after being blocked for years as the central government and the Kurdish Regional Government fought over revenue sharing.

39. Protesters threw rocks at police and shouted slogans in praise of imprisoned Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan and his Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).

40. The regional government has also launched a campaign to tout Iraqi Kurdistan as a tourist destination, describing it as "the Other Iraq".

41. Turkey's government, too, seems readier to accept the reality of an autonomous Kurdistan in a federal Iraq, even though the recent bombings are bound to stir anti-Kurdish feelings anew.

42. This has been achieved through the soft balkanization of federalism in Iraq, which has allowed the Kurdistan Regional Government to negotiate with foreign oil corporations on its own.

43. Mr. Talabani, who is an Iraqi Kurd , says the U. S. would be welcome to establish long-term bases in the Kurdistan autonomous region of northern Iraq.

44. If all goes well, Iraq's first summer academy for young musicians will take place in Sulaimaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan, in August.

45. At least 15 Turkish soldiers have been killed in a clash with Kurdish rebels of the Kurdistan Workers Party. or PKK.

46. Tensions are growing over Turkey's raid into Iraqi Kurdistan to root out the PKK.

47. It is believed the region is the base for most of the leadership of the Kurdistan Workers Party(Sentencedict), the PKK.

48. Addax, which operates the Taq Taq field in Kurdistan, was a key beneficiary of the change and has been shipping Taq Taq oil via the main Iraqi-Turkish pipeline since the start of this month.

49. We taught in the same school in a town in Iranian Kurdistan.

50. A supporter of the pro-Kurdish DTP party flashes a victory sign as he waves a flag of the illegal Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) during a rally in Diyarbakir November 25, 2007 .

51. Douglas Layton, the director of the Kurdistan Development Corporation, a joint public-private company, says the new investment law will have many incentives for foreigners.

52. It will be many years yet before Kosovo takes its seat at the UN between Kiribati and Kuwait (or Kurdistan, if it gets there first).

53. Turkish tanks and hundreds, perhaps thousands of soldiers, crossed into Iraqi Kurdistan after heavy shelling targeted at the PKK in Iraq.

54. And yet the Kurdistan Mr Siti knew in his youth, as he sees it, has almost disappeared.

55. Born in Duhok in Iraqi Kurdistan in 1954, Mr Siti studied fine arts in Ljubljana from 1977 until 1982.