The president of Iraqi Kurdistan has been in Turkey calling on Kurds there to support the country’s peace process.<br /><br />It was Masoud Barzani’s first visit to Turkey’s Kurdish southeast in more than two decades.<br /><br />He met with Prime Minister Erdogan who has been working to end the three decade long insurgency by Kurdish militants PKK.<br /><br />Thousands gathered to hear the two men speak as well as listen to a Kurdish poet and singer who had fled Turkey in the 1970s.<br /><br />Barzani’s visit comes as Ankara has just finalised billions of dollars of energy deals with Iraqi Kurdistan.
