| Description | Papers relating to the activities of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) during the late 1970s. These include an internal communication to the PUK organisation in Europe (January 1977), a letter of protest to Iraqi president Hassan al-Bakr (March 1977), a letter from Zahir Hamad to the PUK leadership (April 1977), an invitation to a PUK event in Berlin marking the first anniversary of the organisation (June 1977), an open letter from the west Berlin organisation of PUK (June 1977), correspondence with the UNCHR (May-June 1977), a sheet of PUK accounts from America (July 1977), a PUK Leadership statement on the 1st anniversary of its armed movement (August 1977), a letter from Fuad Masoum to the PUK Committee in Europe (24 September 1977), a letter from the PUK to the radical political party in Holland (September 1977), a letter from the Communist party of Turkey to the PUK organisation in Amsterdam (September 1977), an article 'Jinayat-i Buzurg' by the PUK Committee in Europe (October 1977), the text of a PUK memorandum to the Iraqi government and a joint statement by the PUK European committee and leadership committee of AKSA student organisation (both November 1977), a statement by the PUK political bureau (December 1977), the text of a PUK address to the 18th congress of the international confederation of Iranian students (December 1977), a letter from Abdulrazaq Fyli to the European Committee of the PUK (December 1977), acknowledgments from the Library of Congress, the Campaign to Stop Government Spying and othe bodies for receipt of the PUK publication 'The Spark', correspondence from American supporters Peggy Blair and Michael Lev and other papers relating to the American branch of the PUK (November 1977), a report by the PUK in Europe, a final statement from the PUK leadership meeting, a PUK statement and a falsified declaration in the name of PUK (1977), plus two letters from Chahin Baker in Australia to the PUK (21 and 27 January 1977),
A PUK telegram and other communications sent to the Heads of Arab states at the second summit meeting of Arab states in Algiers (January 1978), a PUK telegram to the UNCHR (February 1978), a PUK statement and three documents on the martyrdom of one of its leaders Shaswar Jalala (February 1978), letter from Mr Ugo Adilardi to the PUK on setting up a committee in Rome (February 1978), a PUK statement on the third anniversary of the Algiers agreement between Iran and Iraq (March 1978), a letter to the PUK from the German section of Survival International (April 1978), a letter from the PUK foreign relations committee to the leadership of the PLO (March and June 1978), a letter to the participants of the international conference in Montreal (April 1978), a PUK letter to The Times (May 1978), a letter from Ali Askari and others to leadership of PUK outside (May 1978), a PUK statement on public opinion (May 1978), a letter from Dr Fuad Masoum to the PUK European committee (May 1978), a handwritten statement by Omar Sheikhmous on international media coverage of the PUK (June 1978), two PUK statements, one of them on the Iraqi minister of information (June 1978), a letter from the Iraqi communist party central command to the PUK and the Federation of Iranian students (June 1978), a statement by UK section of PUK on the 3rd anniversary of the PUK (June 1978), minutes of the meeting of the leadership of PUK outside the country (March, April, July 1978), a letter from the PUK to the central committee of the communist party of the Soviet Union (July 1978), a letter from Shemal to the PUK leadership outside the country (July 1978), a letter from the PUK to the international conference against racism and racial discrimination (August 1978), a letter from the German Social Democratic Party to the PUK (September 1978), an address by a PLO representative to Kurdish Student Association Abroad (September 1978), letters of reference for various PUK representatives sent from the PUK to the Communist Party in Romania (October 1978), various PUK press statements including reference to the Arab Summit in Baghdad, a letter from the Iraqi Komala to the leadership of PUK (October to November 1978), a 14-page photocopied internal PUK publication (1978), a PUK military communique (1978), a statement on the status of the peshmerga
A statement by the PUK foreign relations committee on misleading media coverage (January 1979), a message from the PUK leadership to the 23rd congress of the French communist party (May 1979), a letter of authorisation for Omar Sheikhmous to represent the PUK abroad (June 1979), an article by the PUK Political Bureau on Mahdi Bazirgan (June 1979), a letter to PUK from Jawhar Shawish, Jamil Yusuf, Shurzad al-Qadi (August 1979), a letter from the PUK political bureau to the leadership of the Iraqi communist party (October 1979), a letter from Omar Sheikhmous on behalf of the PUK foreign relations committee to the leadership of socialist and communist parties in Eastern Europe - with some replies - (October 1979), a two-page typed biographical sketch of Jalal Talabani written by Sheikhmous (October 1979), a letter from Swiss journalist Till Lincke to the PUK (October 1979), a circular letter from Sheikhmous addressed to international media with five pages of PUK illustrations showing scenes of Kurdish resistance activities (November 1979) and a letter from the PUK and Iraqi communist party to the United Socialist Party of Kurdistan (November 1979), as well as several letters from the PUK to the UN general secretary, Kurt Waldheim, a PUK declaration on the execution of Ali Askari, Dr. Khaled and Shekh Hussein (with a later but undated PUK statement concerning Askari), a 48-page booklet report on the 4th conference of PUK in Europe (1979).
There are also two large bundles of documents compiled by Sheikhmous on 'The PUK in Europe' dating chiefly from the late 1970s. |