| Description | Folder of papers relating to PUK activities during the 1980s, including material on the negotiations with the Iraqi government in 1984. These include correspondence, press releases, military reports, proposals for co-operation between Kurdish groups, circular letters from Kurdish activists including Omar Sheikhmous, Kemal Fuad, Fuad Masoum and Omer Dababa to the leadership of the PUK both inside and outside Iraqi Kurdistan, a press release by the PUK on the clash between the KDP and Hizb al-Sha'b al-Dimuqrati al-Kurdistan, formal communications with international governments and associations such as the United Nations, Socialist Party of France and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, appeals for humanitarian aid and political support, as well as letters sent to the PUK from supporters, media bodies and other contacts across the world, the final statement of the leadership meeting of PUK in 1984, and a copy of a handwritten statement by a PUK spokesperson on an article in al-Tayyar together with an article on Iraq from al-Sharq al-Awsat, a letter from Yasin to European committee of PUK (1982) |