Gorran (Change) Movement leader Nawshirwan Mustafa, 73, died after long battle with illness on Friday morning in Sulaimani in the Kurdistan Region.
On the streets of Sulaimani, emotion poured out as his body was transferred for burial rites.
Kurdish political leaders and Mustafa's sons gathered in the provincial capital to pay their respects.
Mustafa was born in Sulaimani in 1944.
