Kurdish school children play with a ball in the mountain village of Enzi
Kurdish school children play with a ball in the mountain village of Enzi (Getty Images)

The Other Iraq

October 19, 2007

Turkey’s vote this week, to allow military incursions into Iraqi Kurdistan, comes amid growing tensions between Turkey, the U.S. and Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurds. The World’s Middle East correspondent Quil Lawrence explains that Iraqi Kurdistan has waged a long public relations campaign to brand itself as “the other Iraq.”


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