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Article: Jalal Talabani: ;No grounds for relations with Baghdad'.(president of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Iraq)(Interview)
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- Middle East Quarterly
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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Jalal Talabani has been president of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) since the organization's founding in 1977. Born in Kelkan in 1933, he actively participated in the Iraqi Kurdish opposition from the age of 13, eventually becoming a central committee member inside the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). He worked as a journalist and after the 1958 revolution commanded an Iraqi army tank unit. When the Kurdish rebellion began in 1961, Talabani became an active participant. Following the 1975 Algiers accords that led to the fall of the rebellion, Talabani split with the KDP and founded the PUK. Since the 1991 Kurdish uprising following the Kuwait war, the PUK has (along ...
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