AM:11:49:18/05/2022
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SULAIMANI — The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Ministry
of Peshmerga said on Wednesday (May 18) that a uniform for the Peshmerga forces
will be implemented soon.
The statement was issued following a meeting on the same day
between the Reform Directorate within the Ministry and the Military Advisor
Group of the US-led coalition forces.
The statement said that ongoing reform projects were
discussed, particularly in areas of medicine, logistics, and uniforms.
It added that a decision was made to urgently implement the
uniform project of the Peshmerga forces, which had been suspended for a while
for financial reasons.
The Peshmerga forces are notoriously divided based on
partisan affiliation, with large sections controlled by the Patriotic Union of
Kurdistan (PUK) or the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). For the most part,
their uniforms differ based on party affiliations.
More than a dozen brigades are under the control of the
Peshmerga ministry, which is ostensibly non-partisan.
Foreign military advisors have long asked the KRG for all
the Peshmerga forces to be transferred to the ministry. Something that has not
happened yet.
On September 13, Military Advisor to the Consulate of the
Netherlands in Erbil, Colonel Jan ten Hove, said that it is in the Kurdistan
Region’s interest that the Peshmerga become a modern force unaffected by party
agendas by 2025.
The Deputy Chief-of-Staff at the Ministry of Peshmerga,
Hoshmand Haidar, said on January 26 that the Second Pshtiwani Force of
Peshmerga Forces 70 Command has been transferred to the ministry.
(NRT Digital Media)