The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan is a political party active in Kurdistan Region and the disputed territories in Iraq. The PUK describes its goals as self-determination,human rights,democracy and peace for the Kurdish people of Kurdistan and Iraq. The PUK is currently under the leadership of Bafel Talabani. The PUK was founded in 1975 by Jalal Talabani,Nawshirwan Mustafa,Fuad Masum,Adel Murad,Ali Askari and Abdul Razaq Feyli. All presidents of Iraq under the 2005 constitution have been from this party.
Jalal Talabani was an Iraqi politician who served as the sixth president of Iraq from 2006 to 2014,as well as the president of the Governing Council of Iraq. He was ethnically Kurdish.
Abdul Latif Rashid,also known as Latif Rashid,is an Iraqi Kurds politician and the ninth president of Iraq,following the 2022 Iraqi presidential election. He was previously the Minister of Water Resources under the government of Nouri al-Maliki. Prior to that,he served in the same position under both the Iraqi Transitional Government and the Iraqi Interim Government. Rashid was formerly a spokesperson for the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) in the United Kingdom.
The Iraqi Interim Government was created by the United States and its coalition allies as a caretaker government to govern Iraq until the drafting of the new constitution following the National Assembly election conducted on January 30,2005. The Iraqi Interim Government itself took the place of the Coalition Provisional Authority on June 28,2004,and was replaced by the Iraqi Transitional Government on May 3,2005.
Barham Salih is an Iraqi Kurdish politician who served as the eighth president of Iraq from 2018 to 2022.
Talabani is a surname. It may refer to:
Leyla Qasim was a Feyli Kurdish activist against the Iraqi Ba'ath regime who was executed in Baghdad. She is known as a national martyr among the Kurds.
Ibrahim Ahmad was a Kurdish writer,novelist,judge and translator who founded the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in 1975. He is the father-in-law of Jalal Talabani and Abdul Latif Rashid through both of his daughters.
SOMA Digest is an English-written newspaper in the Kurdistan Region,Iraq.
Hero Ibrahim Ahmed is the former First Lady of Iraq from 2005 to 2014 and the widow of the President of Iraq,Jalal Talabani.
The Kurdistan Democratic Party,usually abbreviated as KDP or PDK,is the largest party in Iraqi Kurdistan and the senior partner in the Kurdistan Regional Government. It was founded in 1946 in Mahabad in Iranian Kurdistan. The party states that it combines "democratic values and social justice to form a system whereby everyone in Kurdistan can live on an equal basis with great emphasis given to rights of individuals and freedom of expression."
Abdul Latif is a Muslim male given name and,in modern usage,surname. It is built from the Arabic words ʻabd and al-Laṭīf,one of the names of God in the Qur'an,which gave rise to the Muslim theophoric names. It means "servant of the All-gentle".
The Tulfah family was the family of Saddam Hussein of Ba'athist Iraq who ruled from 1979 to 2003 and established a single party authoritarian government under the control of the Ba'ath Party until the invasion by US/UK forces in 2003.
Bafel Jalal Talabani,known as Bafel Talabani,is an Iraqi Kurdish politician and current leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). He is the older son of former PUK leader Jalal Talabani.
Al-Latif is one of the names of God in Islam,meaning "kind". Latif can also be a masculine given name,as short form of Abdul Latif,meaning "servant of the Gentle". Its feminine form is Latifa. "Al-Latif" also means "The Subtle".
Fuad Mohammed Hussein is an Iraqi Kurdish politician from the Kurdistan Democratic Party who is the current Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs. He was previously the Minister of Finance in the Government of Adil Abdul-Mahdi.
Nuxsha Nasih Ahmed is the Mayor of Halabja in Iraqi Kurdistan. She is the second woman to be appointed to the most prominent political office in Halabja.
Between the parliamentary election in October 2021 and October 2022,there was a political crisis in Iraq,with members of the Council of Representatives of Iraq being unable to form a stable coalition government,or elect a new President. Basic government services such as the civil service and military continued functioning,but the national political system was in deadlock including in respect of almost all major spending and taxation issues. On 27 October 2022,the government of Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani was approved by the Council of Representatives.
The Athra Alliance is a political alliance of five political parties in Iraq that represent the Assyrian–Chaldean–Syriac people. The alliance comprises these five parties:
