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Jalal Talabani

Iraqi Kurdish politician and 6th President of Iraq (2005–2014)

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He was the country's first non-Arab president, elected after the US-led invasion.[1] Talabani died on 3 October 2017 in Berlin at age 83 from a cerebral hemorrhage.[2] From 2005 until 2014, Jalal Talabani, an Iraqi Kurdish political figure, held the position of Iraq's sixth president.[3]

Life and work

He founded the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in 1975 after the Kurdish separatist movement collapsed.[4] Talabani was elected President of Iraq on 6 April 2005 by the Iraqi National Assembly.[5] On 18 December 2012 he suffered a stroke and was treated in Baghdad before traveling to Germany.[6] Jalal Talabani came into the world in the settlement of Kelkan; his father was Sheikh Husameddin Nurullah, who belonged to the Talabani lineage within the Zangana tribal group.[7]

Talabani commenced legal studies at Baghdad University in the year 1953.[8] To evade capture due to his participation in the Kurdish Students Union, Talabani sought refuge in Syria, departing in 1956.[9] Upon his return to Iraq, he completed a degree and then held a short-term role as a commander of a tank unit within the Iraqi Army.[10] During the initial years of the 1960s, Talabani assumed the leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party's political bureau.[10]

Talabani commenced a subsequent presidential term on 22 April 2006, marking the first occasion a president was elected under the newly adopted constitution.[11]

What the cited sources add

The CNN report states Talabani joined the Kurdish Democratic Party at age 14.[1] The same source notes he conferred the "shield of commitment medal" on coalition officials including Joe Biden in December 2011.[1] The CBS News report says his condition rapidly deteriorated before his death, according to relative Marwan Talabani.[12] Joost Hiltermann's piece details the 1994-1998 internal conflict between the PUK, led by Talabani, and the KDP, led by Masoud Barzani.[13]

References

  1. "Iraq's first non-Arab president, Jalal Talabani, has died", CNN, 3 October 2017. facts only, no text reused. cnn.com
  2. Wikipedia, "Jalal Talabani" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: George, "Kurdish officials: Iraqi ex-President Jalal Talabani dies", The Washington Post, 3 October 2017; "Jalal Talabani, Kurdish Leader and Iraq's First Postwar President, Is Dead at 83", The New York Times, 3 October 2017; "Kurdish former Iraqi president Jalal Talabani dies aged 83", the Guardian, 3 October 2017; "Jalal Talabani's mediating skills will be much missed", The Economist, 5 October 2017; "Barzani announces 7 days mourning over passing away of Mam Jalal", 4 October 2017; "Abadi Announces Three Days of Mourning in Iraq after en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Jalal Talabani" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "You are being redirected...", www.nrttv.com; McDonald, "Jalal Talabani, Kurdish Leader and Iraq's First Postwar President, Is Dead at 83", The New York Times, 3 October 2017; "Jalal Talabani's mediating skills will be much missed", The Economist, 5 October 2017; "Iraq's president appoints Shiite as prime minister", chinadaily.com, 21 April 2009 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Jalal Talabani" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Bidwell, "Dictionary Of Modern Arab History", Routledge, 12 October 2012, p. 407; "Iraq's 1st post-Saddam president, Jalal Talabani, Dies at 83", CBS News, 3 October 2017; "Iraq's first non-Arab president, Jalal Talabani, has died", CNN, 3 October 2017; "Jalal Talabani, Kurdish Leader and Iraq's First Postwar President, Is Dead at 83", The New York Times, 3 October 2017; Phillips, "The Kurdish Spring" A New Map of the Middle East", Routledge, 2015, p. XIX (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Jalal Talabani" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Turner, "The Statesman's Yearbook 2006: The Politics, Cultures and Economies of the World", Springer, 7 February 2017, p. 911 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Jalal Talabani" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Iraqi President Jalal Talabani 'in coma after stroke'", BBC News, 18 December 2012; Adam Schreck and Qassim Abdul-Zahra, "Jalal Talabani, Iraq President, Suffers Stroke", AP via Huffington Post, 18 December 2012; "Iraq President Talabani stable after stroke", Al Jazeera English, 18 December 2012; "Iraq's Jalal Talabani arrives in Germany for treatment", BBC News, 20 December 2012; "Iraq's President Talabani leaves for treatment in Germany after stroke", NBC News, 20 December 2012; Anatolia News Agency, "Iraq Presidential Office publishe en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Jalal Talabani" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: پس از شصت سال: زندگی و خاطرات جلال طالبانی, جلد ١ (١٩٣٣-١٩٦٦)، عرفان قانعی‌فرد، ص. 75-76، ISBN 9789642240524.; "Jalal Talabani's mediating skills will be much missed", The Economist, 5 October 2017; although they were not closely related with Jalal Talabani, cf. Martin van Bruinessen, 'The Qâdiriyya and the lineages of Qâdirî shaykhs among the Kurds', in: T (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Jalal Talabani" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Jalal Talabani, Kurdish Leader and Iraq's First Postwar President, Is Dead at 83", The New York Times, 3 October 2017; "Veteran Iraqi Leader Jalal Talabani Dies", BBC News, 3 October 2017 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  9. Wikipedia, "Jalal Talabani" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Bartrop, "Modern Genocide: The Definitive Resource and Document Collection [4 volumes]: The Definitive Resource and Document Collection", ABC-CLIO, 17 December 2014, p. 1629; Allsop, "The Kurds of Syria", I.B. Tauris, 2014, p. 74; Bartrop, "Modern Genocide: The Definitive Resource and Document Collection [4 volumes]: The Definitive Resource and Document Collection", ABC-CLIO, 17 December 2014, p. 1629 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  10. Wikipedia, "Jalal Talabani" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Bartrop, "Modern Genocide: The Definitive Resource and Document Collection [4 volumes]: The Definitive Resource and Document Collection", ABC-CLIO, 17 December 2014, p. 1629; "Iraq's first non-Arab president, Jalal Talabani, has died", CNN, 3 October 2017 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  11. Wikipedia, "Jalal Talabani" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "As Kurdish Leader And Iraqi President, Jalal Talabani Brought People Together", NPR.org; "Jalal Talabani, Kurdish Leader and Iraq's First Postwar President, Is Dead at 83", The New York Times, 3 October 2017; "As Kurdish Leader And Iraqi President, Jalal Talabani Brought People Together", NPR.org (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  12. "Iraq's 1st post-Saddam president, Jalal Talabani, Dies at 83", CBS News, 3 October 2017. facts only, no text reused. cbsnews.com
  13. "The Kurds: A Divided Future?", Joost Hiltermann, 19 May 2016. facts only, no text reused. nybooks.com

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