1.   The document stated that Kurdish cultural rights were to be recognized and that Kurdish regions would enjoy increased autonomy in local government.

2.   Among the most successful U.N.-run programs in the Kurdish regions was a poultry industry, which supplied Baghdad with meat and eggs.

3.   A second no-flight zone covers the Kurdish region of northern Iraq.

4.   But freely flowing traffic would also allow all Iraqis to pass easily into the Kurdish region.

5.   Diyarbakir is the biggest city in the Kurdish region and a hotbed of Kurdish nationalism.

6.   Fighting had all but ended in the Kurdish region since the captured guerrilla leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his followers to press their demands by peaceful means.

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

8.   Germany is host to the largest Kurdish population outside the traditional Kurdish region in eastern Turkey and nearby countries.

9.   He has, however, gone further than any other senior officer in publicly demanding that economic development accompany military action in the Kurdish region.