Kurdistan now is jointly ruled by two factions, the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the PatrioticUnionofKurdistan.
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The victims were Kurdish Shias, according to a statement posted on the website of the PatrioticUnionofKurdistan.
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Talabani's PatrioticUnionofKurdistan (PUK) is one of two groups that have dominated Kurdish politics for decades.
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The KDP accused Iran of intervening on the side of the PatrioticUnionofKurdistan in the conflict in northern Iraq.
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But there could also be a struggle within Iraqi Kurdistan, where Talabani's PatrioticUnionofKurdistan party shares power with the Kurdistan Democratic Party.
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These are Shia fundamentalist Dawa and the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council (SIIC) and the PatrioticUnionofKurdistan and Kurdish Democratic Party.
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Guerrillas cheered and waved KDP flags after forces from the rival PatrioticUnionofKurdistan (PUK) fled to the Heibet Sultan mountain.
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Herish Habib, a senior Baghdad official from the PatrioticUnionofKurdistan, one of two main Kurdish parties, said language would not be a problem.
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The PatrioticUnionofKurdistan said: "The use of such lethal weapons marks a serious escalation in Turkey's aggression against the people of Iraqi Kurdistan."