The rivalries between the Kurdish parties prompted the KDP to seek armed support from Saddam Hussein for its capture of the town of Arbil from rival PUK.

Talabani, a former student leader, lawyer, journalist and resistance leader, has been the Secretary General of the PUK since its founding in 1975.

The PUK received grassroots support from the urban intellectual classes of Iraqi Kurdistan upon its establishment, this was partly due to 13 of its 15 founding members being PhD holders and academics.

In the early 1980s the PUK evolved and broadened its appeal to all sections of Kurdish society especially the rural classes.

In 1992, the constituent groupings within the PUK merged into a unified political movement that affirmed its social-democratic identity and affiliation.

A SIM card contains its unique serial number ( ICCID ), international mobile subscriber identity ( IMSI ), security authentication and ciphering information, temporary information related to the local network, a list of the services the user has access to and two passwords: a personal identification number ( PIN ) for ordinary use and a personal unblocking code ( PUK ) for PIN unlocking.

PUK quickly becoming the second biggest party in Northern Iraq, building its own force of Peshmerga.

Although sporadic fighting continued with the PKK ( the Turkish-based Kurdish Worker ’ s Party ), the PUK Peshmerga faced its largest threat from Ansar al-Islam, which was also supported by the Ba ' athist government.

The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan ( PUK ) ( Kurdish: یەکێتیی نیشتمانیی کوردستان / Yeketî Niştîmanî Kurdistan, Arabic: الاتحاد الوطني کوردستان Al-Ittihad Al-Watani Kurdistan ) is a Kurdish political party in Iraqi Kurdistan.

The PUK was a coalition of at least five separate political entities, the most significant of which were Talabani and his closest followers, Nawshirwan Mustafa's clandestine Marxist-Leninist group Komala, and the Kurdistan Socialist Movement ( KSM ), led by Ali Askari.

The PUK was originally formed as an umbrella organization unifying various trends within the Kurdish political movement in Iraq.

Jaish Ansar al-Sunna has claimed responsibility for several suicide bombings in Iraq, including the devastating attacks on the offices of two main Kurdish political parties, KDP and PUK, in Irbil on February 1, 2004, that killed at least 109 people.

As active PUK Peshmerga put down their weapons, elder Peshmerga veterans began filling more political PUK roles.

Dr Rashid is a Kurd, born in 1944 in Sulaymaniyah, and is an active member of the PUK under the leadership of Mr Jalal Talabani.

* 1996 – Saddam Hussein's troops seized Irbil after the Kurdish Masoud Barzani appealed for help to defeat his Kurdish rival PUK.

INC played a central role in the truce negotiations between KDP and PUK.

The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan ( PUK ) was founded on June 1, 1975, by coordinations between Jalal Talabani and Nawshirwan Mustafa.

The PUK has branches in all of the major cities and towns of Iraqi Kurdistan and draws membership from a broad cross-section of Kurdish society.

The membership of the PUK, based on statistics compiled in September 1998, stands at 800, 280 members and associates.

The PUK contested the 1992 elections for the Kurdistan National Assembly, and the party list acquired 423, 682 votes of the total of 957, 469 valid votes cast-giving the PUK commanding majority in three of Iraqi Kurdistan four governorates.

The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan ( PUK ) also recruits children according to the CSUCS.

Aras Ibrahim-violinist, built Martyr Karzan's music group ( tipi muziki shehid Karzan ) in 1981 which was the only group who could record revolutionary songs in the mountain in the PUK released areas of Kurdistan.

After his resignation from the PUK, Rahim was a founding member of the Movement for Change under the leadership of Nawshirwan Mistefa.

Dr Rashid was formerly a spokesperson for the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan ( PUK ) in the United Kingdom.

* 1st-parallel suicidebombings of Id-celebrations arranged by main kurdish partiesKDP and PUK in Arbil.

George took the master tapes to Denmark's PUK Studios ( where he had recorded tracks for his 8-times-platinum album Faith ), and spent three days recording lead and backing vocals.

The wealth of Amathus was derived partly from its grain partly from its sheep and copper mines, of which traces can be seen inland.

The American explorations of the Argive Heraeum, concluded in 1895, also failed to prove that site to have been important in the prehistoric time, though, as was to be expected from its neighbourhood to Mycenae itself, there were traces of occupation in the later Aegean periods.

After this came a Buddhist era which has left its traces in the gigantic sculptures at Bamian and the rock-cut topes of Haibak.

The alternative word fall for the season traces its origins to old Germanic languages.

The navy (, ) traces its heritage to Admiral Cochrane's mercenary fleet and to the tiny Portuguese ships and crews that protected the earliest coastal colonies from seaborne marauders.

Despite its popularity with young consumers, it is critically discussed in European media, NGOs, political parties, and market surveillance regarding its nutritional values, choking hazards, and traces of unwanted chemical substances.

Modern botany traces its roots back more than twenty three centuries, to the Father of Botany, Theophrastus ( c. 371 – 287 BC ), a student of Aristotle.

Like the Eastern Orthodox, the Roman Catholic Church through Apostolic succession traces its origins to the Christian community founded by Jesus Christ.

Like the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church also traces its heritage to the foundation of Christianity through Apostolic succession and has an episcopal structure, though the autonomy of the individual, mostly national churches is emphasized.

Historians will be able to find distinctive traces of a cultural movement before its accepted beginning, and there will always be new creations in old forms.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints traces its current dispensation beginnings to Joseph Smith, Jr. on April 6, 1830 in Western New York.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints traces its origins to western New York, where Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement was born and raised.

The company traces its history to June 1911, when Clyde Cessna, a farmer in Rago, Kansas, built a wood-and-fabric plane and became the first person to build and fly an aircraft between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains.

The Colombian Conservative Party, founded in 1849, traces its origins to opponents of General Francisco de Paula Santander's 1833-37 administration.

The Global Alliance of Affirming Apostolic Pentecostals ( GAAAP ), traces its roots back to 1980, making it the oldest LGBT-affirming Apostolic Pentecostal denomination in existence.

Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit ( 1807 ), famous for its explicit ethnocentrism, considers Western civilization as the most accomplished of all, while Kant also allowed some traces of racialism to enter his work.

Predominantly rural until recent decades, the region traces many of its cultural activities to those rural resource-based economies of fishing, agriculture, forestry, and coal mining.

The Christadelphian religious group traces its origins to Dr John Thomas ( 1805 – 1871 ), who migrated to North America from England in 1832.

To Medieval thinking, all things were connected with each other — a mode of thought that finds its traces today in the occult sciences or esoteric thought — ranging from astrology to believing certain minerals have certain beneficiary effects.

The Earth completes its orbit and the Sun traces its entire path in a little over year | 365 days.

The Orthodox Church traces its development back through the Byzantine or Roman empire, to the earliest church established by St. Paul and the Apostles.

Unlike Dungeons & Dragons, the other approach to fantasy role-playing which traces its roots back to the 1960s and which derives from the wargaming scene, the roots of Glorantha lie in experiments with mythology, storytelling, and recreation and blending of ancient societies.