Former Iraqi President Talabani Dies at 84: State TV
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iraqi Kurdish leader and former president of the Arab country Jalal Talabani died on Tuesday, Iraqi state TV said.
The leader of Iraq’s Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), Talabani died at the age of 84.
Talabani stepped down as president in 2014, after a long period of treatment following a stroke in 2012.
Talabani was born near Erbil in 1933. He was the first non-Arab president of Iraq, elected in 2005, two years after the US-led invasion against the Arab country in 2003.
