Abstract
Despite differences in their personalities, Talabani, Iraqi president and leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), and Barzani, president of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), stand almost shoulder to shoulder to defend the Kurdish issue. While Talabani is described as a liberal and Massoud Barzani as a conservative, both stand accused by the Gorran Party leadership of turning the regional government into a family business, empowering and enriching members of their own families, relatives, close associates, and party members and alienating nonpartisan Kurds. The two parties alternated the premiership of the KRG between members of their own families and relatives. While Massoud Barzani had a firm grip on power in the region, through the KDP, Talabani was increasingly losing power to Gorran, which splintered from the PUK in 2006.1
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Ahmed, M.M.A. (2012). Kurdish Leadership Style and Internal Disputes. In: Iraqi Kurds and Nation-Building. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137034083_3
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