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Hurriyet Daily News
March 5, 2018
Prior to March 1, 2003, Turkey had no problems with the Saddam Hussein regime in Baghdad. Turkey's main concerns were focused on the Kurdish groups, led by Massoud Barzani and Jalal Talabani, in northern Iraq, and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), considered a terrorist organization byÃâà...
KPAX-TV
March 4, 2018
... Denmark, France, Germany, Iran, Jordan, the Netherlands, Sweden, Syria, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates also participate. April 6 - 7, 2005 - Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani is selected the country's president by the transitional national assembly. The next day he and two vice presidents are sworn in.
Rudaw
February 28, 2018
Hero is Mam Jalal [Talabani]'s wife, and I have respect for her. I treat her like my mother, but she practiced a wrong policy and it's because of her that the PUK is in this situation. Barham Saleh, the Change Movement and Nawshirwan Mustafa left the party. They all left because of this injustice and pain.
Asharq Al-awsat English
February 25, 2018
When the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) was established by the deceased political Jalal Talabani in June 1975, the political scene in Iraqi Kurdistan was free of any Kurdish political organization due to the collapse of the Kurdish revolution, which was led by Kurdistan Democratic Party under theÃâà...
Rudaw
February 24, 2018
Ahmed, the widow of former PUK leader Jalal Talabani, warned Rasul to act, writing: “I hope you will execute the responsibility you shoulder so that your name will not enter the pages of ... Rasul has been acting head of the PUK since the death of the party's leader and founder Jalal Talabani in October.
Rudaw
February 15, 2018
SULAIMANI, Kurdistan Region – A Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) leadership meeting has proposed March 5 for the party to hold its congress following the death of the party's founder Jalal Talabani in October. On Thursday, the party's Central Council which acts like a parliamentary body of the PUKÃâà...
NPR
October 3, 2017
A towering figure in the Middle East has died, Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani. He was 83 and had been ill for several years. Talabani was Iraq's president from 2005 to 2014. He helped found the Kurds' autonomous region. He'd also been a commander of the Kurdish Peshmerga forces. NPR's Jane ArrafÃâà...
New York Times
October 3, 2017
Jalal Talabani, the Kurdish leader who used pragmatism, guile and an outsize personality to navigate a hazardous course in Mideast politics, surviving guerrilla war, the terrors of Saddam Hussein and shifting alliances to become the first president of Iraq under its postwar Constitution, died on Tuesday inÃâà...
KPAX-TV
December 31, 1999
September 6, 2005 - Iraqi President Jalal Talabani says Hussein has confessed via videotape, audiotape, and signed confessions, to giving the order to gas thousands of Kurds in the late 1980s. September 8, 2005 - Chief attorney, Dulaimi, denies that Hussein has confessed to ordering executions andÃâà...
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