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	Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan is the name of the electoral coalition first presented as a united Kurdish list in the January 2005 election in Iraq.
		Elections were held simultaneously for the assembly of the Kurdistan Regional Government.
		The Alliance represents a coalition of the two main Kurdish parties, the Kurdish Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan – once engaged in a civil war with each other – along with many smaller groups.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Democratic_Patriotic_Alliance_of_Kurdistan (265 words)

	Iraqi Kurdistan information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan won a commanding majority in the Kurdistan National Assembly election on 30 January 2005, as well as 75 seats in the federal National Assembly of the Iraqi Transitional Government.
		In the wake of the ratification of the Iraqi constitution in October 2005, Iraqi Kurdistan reconstitutes itself as a Region under the new constitutional framework.
		The Kurdistan region's economy is dominated by the oil sector, agriculture and tourism.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/Iraqi_Kurdistan (1879 words)

	Why War? Keywords: Kurdistan Democratic Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A senior official of Masoud Barzani's Kurdistan Democratic Party, another of the seven factions, said the KDP was not "100 percent satisfie...
		The leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Massoud Barzani, and the head of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Jalal...
		The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) is a Kurdish Iraqi opposition group led by Massoud Barzani.
	www.why-war.com /encyclopedia/organizations/Kurdistan_Democratic_Party (412 words)

	Patriotic Union of Kurdistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) (est 1975) (Kurdish: Yakêtî Nîştimanî Kurdistan) is a political party in Iraqi Kurdistan.
		The PUK received grassroots support from the urban intellectual classes of Iraqi Kurdistan upon its establishment, this was partly due to 13 of its 15 founding members being PhD holders and academics.
		This was followed by the decision in January 2006, to form an alliance with the KDP and run Iraqi Kurdistan under a unified administration.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Patriotic_Union_of_Kurdistan (436 words)

	Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Patriotic Union of Kurdistan seeks an independent state for Kurds in Northern Iraq.
		Patriotic Union of Kurdistan is the other main Kurdish party, which broke away from the Kurdistan Democratic Party in 1975.
		Fought a war with its rival, Kurdistan Democratic Party, in 1996, when KDP allied with the Iraqi forces in an attempt to eliminate PUK.
	www.iraqinews.com /party_partriotic_union_of_kurdistan.shtml (234 words)

	PUK and KDP Leaders Consolidate Kurdistan Alliance
		Dukan Oct. 2 – The leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Masoud Barzani, accompanied by a senior leadership delegation, paid a visit for a series of meetings with the leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan Jalal Talabani and senior leaders of PUK today.
		Barzani stressed the significance of the alliance of the two major Kurdistan parties as a platform to serve the people of the region and Iraq, and towards achieving the cherished democratic and humanitarian aims of a civil society.
		Opposition groups to the Baathist totalitarian regime in Iraq are confident that the Kurdistan alliance is a prerequisite factor in consolidating the efforts to shape the future of Iraq on a democratic basis.
	www.puk.org /web/htm/news/knwsline/nws/alliance.html (403 words)

	Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
		PUK’s major political objectives are: to assure a democratic system and freedom of thought, freedom of ideology, freedom of journalism and press, freedom of commuting and residency, freedom to establish political organizations, syndicates, professional associations, unions of farmers, women, teachers, youth, artists, writers and athletic clubs, and freedom of protest and strikes.
		The national liberation movement of Kurdistan is a democratic and legitimate movement, struggling against terrorism, violence, and the suppression of basic human rights and democracy.
		The Kurdish movement aims to strengthen its alliances with democratic and progressive Arab forces and other minorities, especially Assyrians and Turkmans, seeking to bring about democratic change, as well as to strengthen its relationship with the world’s liberal, democratic socialist forces striving for freedom, peace, and democracy.
	www.puk.org /web/htm/about/gen.html (486 words)

	Politics of Iraq Summary
		Politics of Iraq takes place in a framework of a more or less federal parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the Prime Minister of Iraq is the head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system.
		Ibrahim al-Jaafari a Shiite, whose United Iraq Alliance Party won the largest share of the vote, was appointed the new Prime Minister of Iraq.
		He begins with how the democratic son is born out of the stinginess of the oligarchic generation.
	www.bookrags.com /Politics_of_Iraq (4252 words)

	Iraq: Political situation
		There is no freedom of speech in Iraq, and everything in the society is marked by the one man rule of Saddam Hussein, and there is heavy and effective political control.
		By its constitution, Iraq has a democratic structure, where there are parliament elections where all citizens can vote.
		This system is however democratic only in theory, as the parties allowed to participate need the approval of the state to participate.
	i-cias.com /e.o/iraq_1.htm (187 words)

	Iraqis voted to divide Iraq, not unite it (KurdishMedia.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Two main Kurdish groups were not allowed to vote for the Kurdistan parliament: the Kurds living outside the Kurdish administrations of the KDP and PUK and the Diaspora Kurds.
		In a communiqué, the organisation, Kurdistan Referendum Movement directed voters to choose one of these two options: either “I want Kurdistan to stay as part of Iraq” or “I want Kurdistan to be independent.” The results of the referendum were announced at a press conference in Hewler’s Sheraton Hotel on 5 February 2005.
		The amalgamation of three strongly distinct communities in Iraq, under a strong central government, is the reason behind non-existence of civil society, the rule of law, and democracy.
	www.kurdmedia.com /reports.asp?id=2635 (2196 words)

	Jalal Talabani
		Talabani has been a master in changing alliances all through his political life, and has several times made alliances with former enemies.
		It could be suggested that he is primarily interested in keeping his positions and power, but also that he has been a pragmatic survivor under very hard conditions.
		2005 January 30: DPAK wins 104 of the 111 seats in Kurdish National Assembly and 75 seats of 275 in the transitional Iraqi National Assembly.
	i-cias.com /e.o/talabani_j.htm (432 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Terrorism Report
		During the early 20th century, Kurds began to consider the concept of nationalism, a notion introduced by the British amid the division of traditional Kurdistan among neighboring countries.
		From 1994-98, two Iraqi Kurd factions – the Kurdistan Democratic Party, led by Massoud Barzani, and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, led by Jalal Talabani –; fought a bloody war for power over northern Iraq.
		Meanwhile, the Kurdistan Workers' Party, the PKK, currently waging a guerrilla insurgency in southeastern Turkey, has rejected the Iraqi Kurds' decision to seek local self-government within a federal Iraq.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/inatl/daily/feb99/kurdprofile.htm (920 words)

	Some Ba'athists Make It to Kurdish Election List
		On the list of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), which controls the area north and east of Kirkuk along the Iranian frontier, are Faiysal Karim Khan Mahmum, a former Mustashar; Abdul-Bari Mohammed Faris from Mosul, also a former Mustashar; and Faris Younis Krido from Duhok, a former Ba'athist.
		In the 1990s, the two leading Kurdish factions -- the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan -- fought a civil war against one another.
		The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan called on Saddam's local supporters, while the Kurdistan Democratic Party invited the Iraqi army to Arbil to break the stalemate.
	www.aina.org /news/2005012595914.htm (706 words)

	Green Left - IRAQ: Parliament meets, nothing changes
		The largest force in the assembly is the Shiite-dominated United Iraqi Alliance, which won 140 seats and around 49% of the vote (although at a February 18 meeting in Olympia former weapons inspector Scott Ritter accused the US of “cooking” the election results to reduce the UIA's vote to prevent it from forming government independently).
		The second largest force in the parliament is the Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan, which won about 26% of the vote (75 seats).
		The DPA is an alliance of the two main pro-US Kurdish parties, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP), with former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party and a number of smaller Kurdish groups.
	www.greenleft.org.au /2005/620/35124 (653 words)

	Iraq (10/06)
		Note: The Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan, the Iraqi List, and the United Iraqi Alliance were electoral blocs consisting of the representatives from the various Iraqi political parties.
		The Kurdish bloc known as the Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan (which includes the KDP and PUK) holds 53 legislative seats.
		The United States, having led the international coalition to remove the Ba’ath regime, is committed to the establishment of a stable, united, prosperous, democratic, and pluralistic Iraq.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/6804.htm (4579 words)

	MidEast Web -The Iraqi Government - 2006 - Who's Who
		- Head of Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) which is a member of the Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan.
		- A Kurd, born in 1933 in the village of Kelkan in Iraqi Kurdistan
		- Was the Minster of Education in the Kurdistan region.
	www.mideastweb.org /iraqgovt.htm (2995 words)

	Index
		Perhaps the greatest irony of the election in Kurdistan, then, is the presence of Ba’athists on the Kurdish election slate.
		In the 1990's, the two leading Kurdish factions, the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan fought a civil war.
		The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan called on Saddam's Kurdish supporters, while the Kurdistan Democratic Party invited the Iraqi army to Arbil to break the stalemate.
	www.democracynow.org /print.pl?sid=05/01/31/1516255 (1085 words)

	Publius Pundit - Blogging the democratic revolution
		The Shiite United Iraqi Alliance gained 48.19% of the vote and teamed up with the Kurds, while Sunnis only had appointed representation due to a widespread boycott of the elections.
		The reason that the United Iraqi Alliance did so well was because it was blessed by Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq’s top Shiite cleric.
		Given the mediocre state of civil society and the basis of parties being generally ethnic or religious, the Shiites — consituting the largest group in the country — swarmed in support for the UIA.
	publiuspundit.com /?p=2026 (510 words)

	Kurdish self-destruction: Kurds participate in the election for the Iraqi parliament (KurdishMedia.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		On 30th of January, 2005, three elections will be conducted as follows: the first for the establishment of the Iraqi parliament interim national assembly (275-seats); the second for the interim Kurdistan parliament (111-seats); and the third for the election of local governments for various districts of Iraq.
		Blatantly ignored are two main Kurdistani groups, who are not allowed to vote for the Kurdistan parliament: the Kurds living outside the Kurdish administrations of the KDP and PUK and the Diaspora Kurds.
		This decision effectively implies that the KDP and PUK have formally agreed that the Arabised areas are not part of Kurdistan.
	www.kurdmedia.com /reports.asp?id=2334 (1142 words)

	Military Alliance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Military Alliance seeks to work with officers in exile as well as noncommissioned officers and soldiers in Iraq.
		Its general outlook is that the military should stay out of Iraqi politics after Saddam Hussein has been removed from power.
		Military Alliance was established in March of 1999 as the military wing of the Iraqi National Coalition.
	www.iraqinews.com /party_military_alliance.shtml (90 words)

	The elections in Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Allawi's list is likely to come second or third, as is the list of the main Kurdish parties (the two largest Kurdish parties, the Kurdish Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, are standing on a joint list, the Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan).
		These results would mean that the United Iraqi Alliance combined with either the Kurds or Allawi would have a majority, although it's more likely that the UIA will form a "big tent" coalition with Allawi and the Kurds (and maybe some of the other parties).
		The logic of this is that the UIA represents religious-minded Shia, Allawi represents secular Shia, and the Kurds are too big and well armed not be be given a share of power.
	www.cabalamat.org /weblog/art_416.html (459 words)

	Sunni, Kurdish, Nationalist, Communist alliance?? - aliraqi Community
		The movement of alliances and divisions in the major political blocs is at its climax in preparation for the elections' battle expected at the end of this year.
		In addition to their announcement of the "National and democratic Forces' Alliance yesterday, several Kurdish identities do not rule out the creation of pure Kurdish alliances and coalition with other forces, as it was the case during the former elections, when the Kurdistani Alliance slate has been created and had allied with the Coalition later.
		The Qassemi Democratic Gathering; That is a mix of the late General Abdul-Karim Qassims politcal views and communist ideology.
	www.aliraqi.org /forums/showthread.php?t=50939 (1960 words)

	Iraq Update Sept 30 - Oct 6 \| The Agonist
		Democrats and many Republicans say the Iraqi insurgency has been fueled by perceptions that the United States has ambitions for a permanent presence in the country.
		In the latest of series of high-level visits to the Kurdistan Region, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited Erbil yesterday for meetings with the senior leadership of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).
		She said she understood the importance of autonomy in Kurdistan and the Region’s special history, and the need to treat all groups in Iraq fairly.
	agonist.org /20060928/iraq_update_sept_30_oct_6 (7265 words)

	Asia Times Online :: Middle East News, Iraq, Iran current affairs
		Even if there is accord on the final draft of the constitution, the real loser here is still likely to be the US, which has consistently linked the transformation of the Middle East into a democratic region to the emergence of a democratic Iraq.
		In their desperation, the Sunnis are now pleading with the United Nations and the US to prevent the other two groups from pushing the draft charter through the National Assembly without Sunni consent.
		The Shi'ites and the Kurds have ample votes in the legislative body (United Iraqi Alliance 48.2%, and Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan 25.7%) to railroad the Sunnis into accepting it.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/GH23Ak01.html (1346 words)

	The Reference Frame: Iraq elections: success
		Well, it's their free decision to exit the democratic system, and I think that the system may be better off without them.
		I hope that my feminist friends will be flattered when I say that a new Iraqi government resembling the feminist wing of the Democratic Party would still represent progress for that country.
		I would like to emphasize that this is my private blog, and I never intended to transmute it into a free democratic arena of communists like you.
	motls.blogspot.com /2005/01/iraq-elections-success.html (1744 words)

	The World Forum \|\| Political Forums
		The Shi'a United Iraqi Alliance (UIA) list of candidates has won at least 132 of 275 seats in the Iraq National Assembly, in results announced on Sunday.
		Capturing 48.1% of the national vote, the UIA is the largest single block in the Assembly.
		There has been ongoing speculation the UIA is in negotiations with the Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan in advance of the poll results.
	www.theworldforum.org /story/2005/2/14/83731/2035 (482 words)

	Iraq Elections
		In terms of choice, all 3 main communities will go into the elections with at least two significant coalitions to choose from.
		United Iraqi Alliance — Shi’ite dominated senior partner in the current ruling coalition.
		Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan — Dominated by the two main Kurdish parties.
	www.ockenden.org.uk /1653 (590 words)

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