Wearing new running shoes with his traditional turban, he recalled the 1970 agreement with Baghdad setting up a semi-autonomous Kurdish zone, which never came to pass.

Ayatollah Arbab is among three Ayatollahs who never wore the traditional turban.

The reception room was guarded by ceremonial soldiers standing at rigid attention in traditional turbans topped with fans of starched black cotton.

Men in traditional Kurdish turbans and loose coveralls sat in groups, fingering worry beads and arguing about politics.

This is tied differently than the traditional turban one sees Sikhs wearing in the street.

The cleric, clad in a traditional white turban and black robe, asked that he not be photographed or identified by name.

Both Sikhs stood near the closed flap of the tent, their heads wrapped in the traditional turban, their wiry frames swathed in long wool coats.

So the traditional turban is seen giving way to the newfangled fez.

One is westernized and wears black-rimmed spectacles, the other, traditional turban and linen.

The slight, Sikh man in a dark red snowsuit and a traditional turban looked at the sky and frowned.