PUK Zone (Sulaymaniyah) — De Facto Map

PUK Zone (Sulaymaniyah) — PUK Zone · Sulaymaniyah · Eastern Kurdistan Region.

Interactive de facto map of the PUK zone of Iraqi Kurdistan. The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan of the Talabani family rules the eastern half of the autonomous region from Sulaymaniyah and Halabja, with its own peshmerga units and the Zanyari intelligence service. Where the KDP leans toward Ankara, the PUK leans toward Baghdad and Tehran. The two zones’ forces have never merged despite two decades of nominal unification — this map shows the zone the PUK actually administers.