(By Peter Feuilherade of BBC,  Tuesday, February 16, 1999 Published at 15:40 GMT)

... There are more than 10 local television and radio stations operated by various organizations and groups in northern Iraq, which has been under the control of the Kurds since 1991.

The KDP and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan have two television stations.

There are also stations operated by groups as diverse as the Kurdistan Conservative Party, the Islamic Movement of Iraqi Kurdistan, the Kurdistan Communist Party and the Kurdistan Socialist Democratic Party.

There are also at least three radio stations targeted at Iran's Kurdish regions broadcasting programmes in Kurdish hostile to the Iranian government. ...