The governor of Iraq's Erbil province died from the coronavirus early Wednesday in Ankara, Turkey, at the age of 42.
Firsat Sofi was elected in September 2019 in the province's first election of a new governor in 15 years. He represented the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in the regional parliament from 2013 to 2017 and was a member of the 2015 committee that drafted the Kurdistan Region’s constitution.