Faris Tammo speaks to the media during a protest in front of the Kurdish parliament in Irbil.

In this photo taken on Saturday, Oct. 8, 2011, Faris Tammo, 32, speaks to the media during a protest in front of the Kurdish parliament in Irbil, a city in the Kurdish controlled north 217 miles (350 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq. His father, Mashaal Tammo, a charismatic Kurdish opposition figure, was assassinated last week in Syria by masked men who burst into his apartment and shot him.