query: country_of_citizenship nimrud baito
supports: The Hewlett-Packard Company (commonly referred to as HP) or shortened to Hewlett-Packard was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. It developed and provided a wide variety of hardware components as well as software and related services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and large enterprises, including customers in the government, health and education sectors. Iraqi Kurdistan, officially called the Kurdistan Region by the Iraqi constitution, is located in the north of Iraq and constitutes the country's only autonomous region. It is frequently referred to as Southern Kurdistan, as Kurds generally consider it to be one of the four parts of Kurdistan, which also includes parts of southeastern Turkey (Northern Kurdistan), northern Syria (Rojava or Western Kurdistan), and northwestern Iran (Eastern Kurdistan). The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) ("Hikûmetî Herêmî Kurdistan" "ukmat Iqlm Kurdistn") is the official ruling body of the predominantly Kurdish region of Northern Iraq referred to as Iraqi Kurdistan or Southern Kurdistan. Nimrud Baito ( born 1952 in Dohuk ) was the Minister of Tourism in the Kurdistan Regional Government cabinet from 2006 - 2009 . An ethnic Assyrian , Nimrud belongs to the Assyrian Patriotic Party . Trained as an electrical engineer , Baito worked in information technology at Hewlett - Packard for 10 years . Iraq (, or ; '; '), officially known as the Republic of Iraq ('; ') is a country in Western Asia, bordered by Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, Kuwait to the southeast, Saudi Arabia to the south, Jordan to the southwest, and Syria to the west. The capital, and largest city, is Baghdad. The main ethnic groups are Arabs and Kurds; others include Assyrians, Turkmen, Shabakis, Yazidis, Armenians, Mandeans, Circassians, and Kawliya. Around 95% of the country's 36 million citizens are Muslims, with Christianity, Yarsan, Yezidism, and Mandeanism also present. The official languages of Iraq are Arabic and Kurdish. Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, or Assyrian, is a Northeastern Neo-Aramaic language spoken by an estimated 200,000 people throughout a large region stretching from the plain of Urmia in northwestern Iran, to the Nineveh plains, and the Irbil, Mosul, Kirkuk and Duhok regions in northern Iraq, together with the Al Hasakah region of northeastern Syria, and formerly parts of southeastern Turkey. In recent years, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic has spread throughout the Assyrian diaspora.
  Assyrian is a moderately inflected, fusional language with a two-gender noun system. It is also a null-subject language and it features a pronoun drop to some degree. The word order of modern Assyrian is predominately SVO (subjectverbobject), although other sentence structures are commonly used too. There is some Akkadian vocabulary and influence in the language. Assyrian Neo-Aramaic is written from right to left, and it uses the "Madnhy" version of the Syriac alphabet. The Assyrian Patriotic Party (Assyrian Neo-Aramaic:   , commonly known as Atranaya) is a political party in Iraq representing Assyrians that has been led by Emanuel Khoshaba Youkhana, since the 4th APP conference in Duhok in 2011.
candidates: american iran iraq iraqi kurdistan jordan turkey
answer: iraq