| Description | Papers relating to the activities of Kurdish political groups, including a substantial collection of documents and correspondence on the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), of which Sheikhmous was a founding member, a smaller collection of documents from the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP), and a box containing individual folders of varying sizes on smaller Kurdish political parties and organisations. There are also boxes containing newspapers and periodicals published by the PUK and KDP, as well as papers documenting relations between the two rival parties that includes both joint documents, published criticisms, and coverage of the 1995-97 civil war. |