7 hours agoFormer Iraqi president dies
Periskopi(9 years ago)
(9 years ago)Former Iraqi president and Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani has died at the age of 83. Iraqi state television reports that Talabani has died on 3 October at a hospital in Germany. A close friend of the family and a senior Kurdish official in Irbil are quoted as saying Talabani died after the state of [...]
Iraqi state television reports that Talabani has died on 3 October at a hospital in Germany.
A close friend of the family and a senior Kurdish official in Irbil are quoted as saying Talabani died after his health condition deteriorated on October 3rd.
Talabani had suffered blows in 2012, and had been sent to a hospital in Germany for medical treatment.
Talabani, the veteran leader of the Kurds' self-rule efforts, had been elected president in 2005, two years after the US-led invasion, which ousted dictator Saddam Hussein from power.
He was the seventh president of Iraq, simultaneously the country's first president who was not Arab. Talabani left power in 2014.
