IRAQ. Near the town of Suleymania, capital of PUK controlled part of Northern, Iraqi Kurdistan. November, 2002. PUK Military accademy. Kurds and Arabs formerly in the Iraqi army train soldiers. Theoretical lessons, imitation of the area as a tankbattelfield, built by a defector. The three mainly Kurdish northern provinces of Iraq have been independently ruled by the Kurdish KDP (Kurdish Democratic Party) and the PUK (Patriotic Union of Kurdistan).