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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.
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PUK and was
The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan ( PUK ) was founded on June 1, 1975, by coordinations between Jalal Talabani and Nawshirwan Mustafa.
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.
The PUK was originally formed as an umbrella organization unifying various trends within the Kurdish political movement in Iraq.
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.
The civil war among the Peshmergas of the PUK and the KDP held up the military development of the Peshmerga as the attention was no longer on outside threats.
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.
Dr. Barham Salih joined the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan ( PUK ) in late 1976 where he became a member of the PUK department of Europe, and was in charge of PUK foreign relations in London.
He was elected a member of the PUK leadership at the first party conference when Iraqi Kurdistan was liberated from the Ba ' ath Party following the first Gulf War.
He was assigned the task of heading the PUK Office in the United States.
The primary goal of the 2005 elections was to end party-rule in the Iraqi Kurdistan and unify the two major parties-the Kurdistan Democratic Party ( KDP ) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan ( PUK )-who fought a civil war in the mid-1990s over territorial disputes and control of the Kurdistan Region.
Previously, the region was divided up by administrative provinces that were under control of either the KDP or the PUK.
Nechervan Barzani, who is a member of the KDP, was expected to serve two years and would be replaced with a PUK candidate in 2008.
Kurdistan List, a joint list of KDP and PUK, won the largest share of seats and was tasked to form the next government.
On June 4, 1992 KDP secretary general Jawhar Namiq Salim was elected Speaker of the Kurdistan National Assembly and prominent PUK member Fuad Masum was elected Prime Minister of Kurdistan.
He also coached the Cats in Super Rugby and was a founder of the PUK Rugby Institute.
It was originally released in the summer of 2004 and the PUK expansion was released several months afterwards.
From Turkey's perspective PUK was trying to push PKK out of North Iraq and KDP was getting support from PKK which was supported by Syria, Iran and Saddam.
PUK and coalition
Not surprisingly, the coalition received the majority of votes ( an overwhelming 90 %) allowing the KDP and PUK to effectively divide key positions in government.
Ahead of the 2005 parliamentary elections, PUK formed a coalition together with three other parties grouped in the " Parties of the Social Spectrum of Albania ".
PUK and at
The membership of the PUK, based on statistics compiled in September 1998, stands at 800, 280 members and associates.
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.
PUK and political
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 traces its political heritage to Sulaymaniyah native Ibrahim Ahmad.
In 1992, the constituent groupings within the PUK merged into a unified political movement that affirmed its social-democratic identity and affiliation.
As active PUK Peshmerga put down their weapons, elder Peshmerga veterans began filling more political PUK roles.
PUK and most
In total the PUK won the most votes during in these 3 provinces together with a total of 765, 544 votes ( 43. 4 %) however they won only 48 seats while the KDP with 741, 483 votes ( 42 %) won 62 seats.
PUK and which
Krekar became the leader of the merged Ansar al-Islam, which opposed an agreement made between IMK and the dominant Kurdish group in the area, Patriotic Union of Kurdistan ( PUK ).
Due to the 7 % threshold the only parties which had a chance of winning seats in parliament were the KDP and the PUK.
The election resulted in a narrow victory for the KDP, which with 45 % of the vote gained 51 seats while the PUK with 44 % of the vote gained 49 seats.
However, due to fraud allegations KDP gave up one seat to the PUK so that each would have 50 seats, they proceeded to form a unity government which lasted until May 1994, when the Kurdish Civil War broke out.
PUK and were
Following the First Gulf War, Iraqi Kurdistan fell into a state of civil war between the two major Kurdish parties the KDP and the PUK, and their Peshmerga forces were used to fight each other.
They were able to secure the selection of Jalal Talabani ( the PUK leader ) as President of Iraq, while Massoud Barzani ( the KDP leader ) became President of Iraqi Kurdistan.
This time they were allied with the KDP and attacked PUK and PKK positions in an attempt to force a cease-fire between the factions.
PUK and Talabani
Talabani, a former student leader, lawyer, journalist and resistance leader, has been the Secretary General of the PUK since its founding in 1975.
Jalal Talabani is the current leader of the PUK and the president of Iraq
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.
Jalal Talabani leader of the Iraqi Patriotic Union of Kurdistan ( PUK ), in a 1998 interview, contrasted the situation in Iran with that of Turkey, with respect to Kurds:
PUK and Kurdistan
In June 1992, nearly 200 delegates from dozens of opposition groups met in Vienna, along with Iraq's two main Kurdish militias, the rival Kurdistan Democratic Party ( KDP ) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan ( PUK ).
Since the first Gulf War, the PUK has jointly administered Iraqi Kurdistan with the Kurdistan Democratic Party ( KDP ).
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 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.
* 2001-Was top politician in peace talks between the Kurdistan Democratic Party ( KDP ) and the Patriotic Union Of Kurdistan ( PUK )
* 4 seats for the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan ( PUK )
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