| Figure I.1 | Iconoclastic Meeting in Ankara, 1992. Turkey’s President Özal (fourth from left) receiving anti-Saddam Iraqi opposition delegation. On his right and left, the Kurdish leaders Jalal Talabani and Masoud Barzani. Author was the architect of the meeting |
| Figure 1.1 | Infograph of Distribution of the Kurds in the Middle East |
| Figure 1.2 | Map of Sèvres for an Independent Kurdistan (1920) |
| Figure 3.1 | Author with Murat Karayılan, the Top Commander of the PKK on Mt. Qandil, Iraqi Kurdistan’s Border with Iranian Kurdistan. Discussing the PKK’s fighting tactics and its conditions to “leave the mountain” and disarm |
| Figure 3.2 | Turkish Military Presence in Iraqi Kurdistan (where the PKK also operates militarily, and names the area “Media defense zones”) |
| Figure 5.1 | The Historic Image of a Historic Moment, Öcalan Declaring Cease-Fire in Bar Elias, Lebanon, March 16, 1993. To his right, the mediator for Turkish-Kurdish settlement Jalal Talabani (president of Iraq 2006–2014). Standing on his left with eyeglasses is Kamran Karadaghi, who played a major role with the author on the establishment of relations between Turkey’s president Turgut Özal and the Iraqi Kurdish leadership. The author is next to Karadaghi, staring at Öcalan during his declaration of the PKK’s first cease-fire |
| Figure 5.2 | President Turgut Özal of Turkey, in an Exceptional Emotional Gesture to the Author at the Reception for the Seventy-eighth Anniversary of the Republic, October 29, 1991, Presidential Palace, Ankara |
| Figure 5.3 | Author Flanked by Abdullah Öcalan (L) and Jalal Talabani (R), March 16, 1993, Lebanon. The photo was shot following the author’s private conversation with Öcalan after his declaration of the first cease-fire by the PKK in the history of the Kurdish conflict |
| Figure 6.1 | With President Turgut Özal and President of Czech Republic Václav Havel, September 1991, Prague. Havel signing his acclaimed book Living in Truth for the author |
| Figure 7.1 | With President Abdullah Gül in Isfahan, Iran, January 2011. The author was approached by Gül to carry a peace initiative to the Iraqi Kurds in 2007 |
| Figure 10.1 | Discussing the “Kurdish Question” with Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan on Board His Private Plane, October 28, 2005 |
| Figure 11.1 | Author with the First President of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, a Historical Leader of the Iraqi Kurds, Masoud Barzani, in the KDP Guesthouse in Massif, North of Erbil. July 2003. The war in Syria would be discussed in the same room in 2011 |
| Figure 12.1 | Turkish Safe Zone East of the Euphrates, February 2019 |
| Figure 12.2 | Ethnic Divisions in Northern Syria, 2018 |
| Figure 12.3 | Turkish War on Northeastern Syria, October 9, 2019 |
| Figure 12.4 | Northeastern Syria According to the Memorandum of Understanding between Russia and Turkey, Signed on October 23, 2019 at Sochi |
| Figure 16.1 | Military Situation in Iraqi Kurdistan and Syria |
