Meanwhile, they agreed on a power sharing agreement in the Kurdistan Parliament and Council of Ministers. This power-sharing agreement broke down in 1994 and resulted in a civil war that lasted until 1998, after which Kurdistan Region was divided into a PUK-controlled zone in the southeast and a KDP-controlled zone in the northwest.[2]
ReferencesEdit
^Are elections in Kurdistan Region democratic? 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine, 7.7.2010
^ abThe 2009 Kurdish Elections 2011-01-06 at the Wayback Machine, July 23, 2009
^Galbraith, Peter (2006), The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War without End; Simon and Schuster. ISBN0-7432-9423-8
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