Baghdad: The office of Iraq`s ailing president says he is making progress in a German hospital recovering from a stroke last month.
A brief statement Saturday described the health situation of Jalal Talabani as "reassuring" and says his medical team has started rehabilitation. It did not give more details on his condition.
Talabani, a 79-year-old senior Kurdish leader, was flown to Germany for treatment more than two weeks ago.
The statement was responding to a late Friday report in the French newspaper Le Figaro that described the president as "clinically dead." Talabani`s office described the report as "totally baseless."
The president`s illness has injected more uncertainty into the country`s political future, as unrest grows in Iraq`s Sunni areas over detainees held by the Shiite-led government.
PTI
