PUK Returns to Iraq’s Kurdish Regional Gov’t Meetings After Boycott

Date: 14 May 2023 - 22:29

News ID: ۱۱۵۰۳۹

BAGHDAD (Al Jazeera) – The so-called Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) political party in northern Iraq has ended a months-long boycott of the Kurdish Regional Government cabinet meetings with its main coalition partner, the ruling Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). The move eased tensions between two factions, who fought a war in the 1990s. The PUK had boycotted cabinet meetings since Hawker Abdullah Rasoul, an intelligence officer who had spent two decades with the PUK, was killed in his SUV by a bomb in Erbil on October 7, 2022, according to three Kurdish government officials who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity.