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President Of Iraqi Kurdistan
The President of Kurdistan Region is the head of the autonomous region in northern Iraq. They are part of the Kurdistan Presidency Council. The current President of Kurdistan Region is Nechirvan Barzani, who assumed office on 10 June 2019. 1992–2005 After the 1992 parliamentary election resulted in the two main parties, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), each holding 50 out of 100 seats, they decided to create a unity government (which was not recognized by the Ba'athist Iraq, led by Saddam Hussein).Galbraith, Peter (2006), ''The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War without End''; Simon and Schuster. The unity government soon collapsed and in 1994 a civil war broke out, which lasted until 1998. This resulted in the establishment of two Kurdistan Regional Governments in 1996, a KDP-controlled one in Erbil and a PUK-controlled one in Sulaymaniyah, each with their own President. 2005–present After an official ...
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Kurdistan Region
Kurdistan Region ( ku, هەرێمی کوردستان, translit=Herêmî Kurdistan; ar, إقليم كردستان), abbr. KRI, is an autonomous region in Iraq comprising the four Kurdish-majority governorates of Erbil, Sulaymaniyah, Duhok, and Halabja, and bordering Iran, Syria, and Turkey. The Kurdistan Region encompasses most of Iraqi Kurdistan but excludes the disputed territories of Northern Iraq, contested between the Kurdistan Regional Government and the central Iraqi government in Baghdad since 1992 when autonomy was realized. The Kurdistan Region Parliament is situated in Erbil, but the constitution of the Kurdistan Region declares the disputed city of Kirkuk to be the capital of the Kurdistan Region. When the Iraqi Army withdrew from most of the disputed areas in mid-2014 following the Islamic State’s invasion of Iraq, Kurdish Forces entered the areas and held control there until Iraq retook the areas in October 2017. Throughout the 20th century, Kurds ...
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KDP And PUK Controlled Areas Of Kurdistan
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Kamal Mirawdily
The Kurdistan Region presidential elections of 2009 took place on 25 July 2009, coinciding with the 2009 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election. A total of 2.5 million citizens of Kurdistan Region were eligible to vote in the parliamentary and presidential elections. It is the first time that the President of Kurdistan Region was chosen directly through popular votes.Kurdistan parliament elections between closed and open lists
, ''Ak News'', 2009-03-04
People currently living outside Kurdistan Region were not allowed to vote. Like the parliamentary elections, campaigning for the elections officially started on 22 June 2009 and was to be stopped 48 hours before voting starts. The elections were held with 84 registration centers and 5,403 polling stations and 5 polling stations in Baghdad. Below are ...
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Masoud Barzani 2019
Masoud (; ) is a given name and surname, with origins in Persian and Arabic. The name is found in the Arab world, Iran, Turkey, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Russia, India, Bangladesh, Malaysia, and China. Masoud has spelling variations possibly due to transliteration, including Masud, Massoud, Massoude, Massudeh, Masood, Masʽud, Mashud, Messaoud, Mesut, Mesud, or Mosād. Given name Masoud * Masoud Kazerouni, 14th-Century Persian physician * Masoud Barzani, President of the Iraqi Kurdistan region * Masoud (musician), Iranian music producer, artist, and DJ * Masoud Shojaei, Iranian footballer * Masoud Bastani, Iranian journalist Mas'ud * Masud I of Ghazni, ''sultan'' of the Ghaznavid Empire from 1030 to 1040 * Masud Hai Rakkaḥ, Chief rabbi of Tripoli Other variations of spellings * Messaoud Bellemou, Algerian musician * Messaoud Ould Boulkheir, Mauritanian politician * Moshood K. O. Abiola, late politician and philanthropist from Nigeria * Masood Sh ...
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2017 Iraqi–Kurdish Conflict
The 2017 Iraqi–Kurdish conflict, also known as the Kirkuk crisis, was a conflict in which the Iraqi government retook disputed territories in Iraq which had been held by the Peshmerga since ISIL's Northern Iraq offensive in 2014. The conflict began on 15 October 2017 after tensions arising from the Kurdistan Region independence referendum of 25 September. The tension between the federal Iraqi government and Kurdistan Region escalated into conflict when the Peshmerga ignored repeated warnings to return Kirkuk to Iraqi government forces. Part of the conflict was the Battle of Kirkuk, when Iraqi forces regained control of the city. As a result of the conflict, Kurdistan Region withdrew from 20% of the territory they held. Background The President of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, Masoud Barzani, facilitated the Iraqi Kurdistan independence referendum in September 2017. This provoked the Prime Minister of Iraq Haider al-Abadi to demand that the referendum result be cancel ...
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2009 Kurdistan Region Presidential Election
The Kurdistan Region presidential elections of 2009 took place on 25 July 2009, coinciding with the 2009 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election. A total of 2.5 million citizens of Kurdistan Region were eligible to vote in the parliamentary and presidential elections. It is the first time that the President of Kurdistan Region was chosen directly through popular votes.Kurdistan parliament elections between closed and open lists
, ''Ak News'', 2009-03-04
People currently living outside Kurdistan Region were not allowed to vote. Like the parliamentary elections, campaigning for the elections officially started on 22 June 2009 and was to be stopped 48 hours before voting starts. The elections were held with 84 registration centers and 5,403 polling stations and 5 polling stations in Baghdad. Below are ...
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Kosrat Rasul Ali
Kosrat Rasul Ali () is a Kurdish politician and the leader of the Supreme Political Council of Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), veteran Peshmerga military leader, former Prime Minister, and former Vice President of the Kurdistan Region. Early life He was born in 1952 as Abdulla Rasul in the oil-rich village of Shiwashok near the city of Koya, which is located in the province of Erbil. His father was Rasul Ali, who worked for the oil company near the village. The family was well-known in the area. Peshmerga In 1975, Kosrat joined the Kurdistan Democratic Party and participated in the September Revolution led by Mullah Mustafa Barzani. At the end of 1975, he joined Komala and took over supervision of student activities. He founded the Kurdistan Students Group in Kirkuk with a number of his colleagues in 1976. Kosrat was arrested in 1977 by Baath Party security services in Kirkuk for organizing political activities, and was released the same year. After his release from pri ...
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2005 Kurdistan Region Parliamentary Election
The Kurdistan Region parliamentary elections of 2005 for the parliament of the Kurdistan Region, were held on 30 January 2005, to coincide with the January 2005 Iraqi parliamentary election and elections to the governorate councils. It was the first parliamentary election to be held in Kurdistan Region since 1992. Results *Election data from the Kurdistan National Assembly Voting Breakdown by Governorate Alliance Breakdown Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan party breakdown: *Kurdistan Democratic Party - 40 *Patriotic Union of Kurdistan - 38 *Kurdistan Islamic Union - 9 * Turkmen Democratic Movement - 4 * Kurdistan Communist Party - 3 *Kurdistan Socialist Democratic Party - 2 *Assyrian Democratic Movement- 2 *Chaldean Cultural Society - 1 * Bet Nahrain Democratic Party - 1 * Chaldean Democratic Union Party - 1 *Farmers Movement Party - 1 * Democratic National Union of Kurdistan - 1 *Independent Nouri Talabany - 1 The Kurdish National Assembly did not sit until 4 ...
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Massoud Barzani
Masoud Barzani ( ku, ,مه‌سعوود بارزانی, translit=Mesûd Barzanî}; born 16 August 1946) is a Kurdish politician who has been leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) since 1979, and was President of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq from 2005 to 2017. Early life and career Barzani was born in the territory controlled by the self-declared Republic of Mahabad, and succeeded his father Mustafa Barzani as leader of the KDP in 1979. Working closely with his brother Idris Barzani until Idris's death, Barzani and various other Kurdish groups fought with the Islamic Republic of Iran against the Iraqi military during the Iran–Iraq War. Barzani has played a key role in the development of the Kurdistan Region polity since the Gulf War. President of Kurdistan Region A major result of Saddam Hussein's defeat in the Gulf War (1991) and Operation Provide Comfort was the ultimate establishment of Kurdish control over their traditional homeland in northern Iraq, known as ...
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Jalal Talabani
Jalal Talabani ( ku, مام جەلال تاڵەبانی, translit=Celal Talebanî; ar, جلال طالباني ; 1933 – 3 October 2017) was an Iraqi Kurdish 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 the first non-Arab president of Iraq. He is known as Mam Jalal (uncle Jalal in Kurdish) amongst the Kurds. Talabani was the founder and secretary-general of one of the main Kurdish political parties, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). He was a prominent member of the Interim Iraq Governing Council, which was established following the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Talabani was an advocate for Kurdish rights and democracy in Iraq for more than 50 years. Early life and education Talabani was born in Kelkan village into the Koysinjaq branch of the Talabani family. The Talabani lineage has produced many leading social figures including the poet Riza Ta ...
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Jalal Talabani 2005-09-09
Jalal (Arabic: جلال) is a masculine given or family name. The name or word Jalal means majesty and is used to honor and venerate. When the Arabic language spread across non-Arabic regions, Jalal has also become a name for some Arabic-speaking Christians, non-Arab Muslims, and non-Arabs and has been added to other language dictionaries with the majestic meaning. Another form is Galal, where the first letter "ج" is pronounced like hard g /''g''/ in English. Galal might have other meanings in different languages. Examples The word Jalal could be found in many history, art, religious, and poetry books. For example: # Jalal is used as a characteristic when addressing royals like kings and lords in history, myth, and formal occasion. #Jalál the second month and the Saturday as a first day of the week in the Bahá’í calendar. #Religious books; ##In the Bible, Jalal is used as a veneration for God in Psalms (111:3), (145:5), etc., Isaiah (26:10), (30:30), etc., and the Grea ...
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