Senior PUK official arrested in al-Sulaymaniyah 

Shafaq News/ Senior leading figure in the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), Ghazi Karkuki, was arrested from his residence in al-Sulaymaniyah last night, his elder son Dana Ghazi said on Saturday. 

In a post he shared on Facebook, Dana Ghazi said that a force from the party raided their residence in the Raperin neighborhood in the city of al-Sulaymaniyah and drove his father to an unknown destination. 

Security authorities in the PUK stronghold did not comment on the incident.