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...Uneasy power sharing The region was ripped in half by a 1994 civil war between the populist KDP and leftwing PUK, co-founded by Jalal Talabani....
...Jalal Talabani, a former president of Iraq and a veteran of the Kurdish struggle for independence, has died at age 83....
...The PUK’s leader Jalal Talabani died last month....
...Talabani and his family....
...Mr Talabani, son of Iraqi president, Jalal Talabani, is the well-heeled former representative of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Washington, was sworn in as the deputy prime minister last week...
...From there and all the way to Suleimania, the PUK stronghold, the only visible portrait is that of Jalal Talabani, the revered PUK leader who has been incapacitated by a stroke for nearly two years....
...Both Masoud Barzani’s Kurdistan Democratic party, which dominates the provinces of Erbil and Dohuk, and Jalal Talabani’s Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, which is the main power in the province of Sulaymaniyah...
...Talabani....
...Some of their top leaders, such as the current Iraqi president Jalal Talabani, have closer ties with Baghdad and many of them spent time or studied there....
...In 2005, with a Kurd, Jalal Talabani, as president of Iraq, the first session of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) was held in Erbil, the region’s capital....
...Talabani, who serves in the ceremonial post of Iraq’s president....
...Iraq’s President Jalal Talabani has been flown to Germany for further medical treatment after suffering a stroke earlier this week....
...The US and its allies, discredited by their blundering in Iraq, have little margin for manoeuvre – and Jalal Talabani, the Iraqi Kurd president they relied on to referee the sectarian jostle, has been felled...
...Talabani – himself a former Kurdish guerrilla leader – to mediate Iraq’s conflicts....
...The illness of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, an ethnic Kurd, makes the situation even more febrile....
...Talabani appeared to oppose the idea of a vote....
...The charges came despite talks over the weekend involving President Jalal Talabani, prime minister Nouri al-Maliki, Sunni politicians and US embassy officials that appeared to resolve the issue with the...
...President Jalal Talabani said at the weekend that an Iraqi committee would study over the next two weeks whether to ask the US army to stay past 2011....
...President Jalal Talabani is a Kurd; Tareq al-Hashemi, his deputy, is a Sunni, as is Saleh al-Mutlaq, deputy prime minister....
...Hiwa Osman, a writer and former adviser to Iraqi president Jalal Talabani, and now setting up a news network, points out that while there is a lot of oil money, there is little domestic manufacturing....
...On Thursday night, Jalal Talabani, the Kurdish leader, was re-elected president by parliament as part of the deal and nominated Mr Maliki as premier....
...Jalal Talabani, the president, made a similar call on Sunday, saying a recount was needed to “preclude any doubt and misunderstanding”....
...Talabani, a veteran Kurdish politician seeking another term....
...Under the new agreement, it is expected to appoint a speaker from Iraqiya, then name Jalal Talabani, the current Kurdish president, as president. He, in turn, will name Mr Maliki as prime minister....
...Talabani, the Iraqi president....
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