Iraq Kurdistan 1998 100 years since the birth of Rafik Hilmi - Kurdish historian writer and politician RARE corner stamp MNH

Little is known about the postal stamps of Kurdistan; every Kurdish stamp that has reached the philatelic market is of great interest. It is known about several issues of postage stamps of Iraqi Kurdistan, which were used by the post office of this unrecognized state in the late 90s and early 2000s in territories not under the control of Saddam Hussein. Kurdistan stamps reached Europe in those years, as a rule, through the diplomatic missions of Kurdistan in those countries that recognized the de facto Kurdish state