"It is necessary that the Kurdish people will go and vote, and give this day great attention, " he said.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki congratulated the Kurdish people on their elections in a speech delivered in Washington and broadcast on Iraq's state TV.
That's northern Iraq, where the Kurdish people live and live in - I gather, Annie - more harmony now than you've seen in quite some time.
Kirkuk is largely inhabited by Kurdish families, by Kurdish people.
But Turkey's other main parties are doing even worse: the same poll shows Mr Ecevit's Democratic Left running last, behind the pro-Kurdish People's Democracy Party, which also faces a possible ban.
Now US officials, on the record, say that when they learned of this practice, they absolutely stopped and, in fact, they went as far as to present a list of 42 names to Kurdish officials, demanding that these people be released.
Something else we noted in one of the towns that had been freed from Iraqi control was that the local people, who are Kurds, greeted the Kurdish fighters as well as the American soldiers with no standoffishness at all.
Iran is overwhelmingly Shiite and Shiite Muslims comprise the majority of people in Iraq, which has huge Sunni Muslim and Kurdish populations.
The two main Kurdish factions in northern Iraq have a firm base among their own people but would be unlikely contenders for national power.
Two people have been detained in connection with the deaths of three Kurdish activists in Paris earlier this month, French media reports say.
BBC: 'Two detained' over Kurdish PKK activists' Paris deaths
Some people also crossed from the area controlled by the Iraqi government to the Kurdish zone.
In September 2001, Mr Blunkett met about 90 people held at the centre who had been on hunger strike following a High Court ruling which decreed four Kurdish asylum seekers at a similar centre in Cambridgeshire were being held unlawfully.
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