What is Jalal Talabani?
{{Infobox officeholder |honorific-prefix = [[Excellency|His Excellency]] |name = Jalal Talabani |image = Meetings of Presidents participated in Nowruz with Ali Khamenei - Tehran, Iran (Cropped on Talabani).jpg |order = [[List of Presidents of Iraq|6th]] |office = President of Iraq |vicepresident = [[Adil Abdul-Mahdi]]<br>[[Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer]]<br>[[Tariq Al-Hashimi]]<br>[[Khodair al-Khozaei]] |primeminister = [[Ibrahim al-Jaafari]]<br>[[Nouri al-Maliki]] |term_start = 7 April 2005 |term_end = 24 July 2014 |predecessor = [[Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer]] |successor = [[Fuad Masum]] |office1 = [[Patriotic Union of Kurdistan|Leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan]] |term_start1 = 1 April 1975 |term_end1 = 3 October 2017 |predecessor1 = [[Patriotic Union of Kurdistan|Office Created]] |successor1 = |office2 = [[Prime Minister of Iraq|President of the Governing Council of Iraq]] |term_start2 = 1 November 2003 |term_end2 = 30 November 2003 |predecessor2 = [[Ayad Allawi]] |successor2 = [[Abdul Aziz al-Hakim]] |birth_date = {{birth date|1933|11|12|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Kelkan]], [[Iraq]] |death_date = {{death date and age|2017|10|3|1933|11|12|df=y}} |death_place = [[Berlin]], [[Germany]] |party = [[Patriotic Union of Kurdistan]] |spouse = [[Hero Ibrahim Ahmed]] |children = [[Qubad Talabani|Qubad]] |alma_mater = [[University of Baghdad]] }} '''Jalal Talabani''' (12 November 1933 &ndash; 3 October 2017) was a leading [[Kurds|Kurdish]] politician. He served as President of Iraq from 2005 to 2014. He was the first non-Arab president of [[Iraq]], although [[Abdul Kareem Qasim|Abdul Karim Qasim]] was of partial Kurdish heritage.<ref>{{cite web|date=2009-04-21|title=Iraq's president appoints Shiite as prime minister|url=http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-04/08/content_432343.htm|publisher=chinadaily.com|accessdate=2005-08-04}}</ref> Talabani was the founder and secretary general of one of the m