They were to discuss the possible formation of a temporary government in the Kurdish region.

The city is close to the Kurdish regions of Iraq.

It was possible to get hard currency in the Kurdish region only through the black market.

Kurds also demonstrated in several other towns, but not across the entire Kurdish region.

Conditions in the Kurdish region were hardly ripe for building a democracy.

The plans also have political ramifications in this Kurdish region.

There was actually a border post when we passed out of the Kurdish region.

Once we passed out of the Kurdish region, though, things got tougher.

Fighting in the Kurdish region has died down, and there have been tentative steps toward reconciliation.

One of the problems with the 1997 data, he added, is that they include no information from the three northern provinces in the Kurdish region.