Abd as-Sattar Sharif

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Abd as-Sattar Tahir Sharif , more rarely also Abdul Sattar Tahir Sharif (* 1933 in Kirkuk , Iraq ; † March 5, 2008 , ibid) was a Kurdish politician in Iraq.

Flag of the Kurdish Revolutionary Party , of which Sharif was General Secretary

Sharif became a teacher in 1955 and joined the Kurdistan Democratic Party in 1958 . Within the DPK he belonged to the Ahmed / Talabani faction, which had been at odds with the DPK chairman Mustafa Barzani since 1964 on the question of negotiations with the Baghdad central government . The Ahmed / Talabani faction elected Sharif to their own rival politburo in 1969 and he became head of the Koya area .

Sharif has been in favor of cooperation with the Iraqi government since 1970 and has held various ministerial posts in Baghdad within the National Progressive Front since 1974 . He became Minister of Labor and Housing in April 1974, Minister of Local Affairs in February 1975 and Minister of Transport in 1976. In 1977 he was initially released.

From 1976 Sharif was General Secretary of the Kurdish Revolutionary Party, which emerged from the Ahmed / Talabani faction . This party he founded remained largely without influence within the front and within Iraq, which was dominated by the Ba'ath Party . In 1984 Sharif failed to be elected to the National Assembly, but was again Minister of State in Baghdad.

Sharif left Iraq in 1999 and went into exile. The new General Secretary of the Kurdish Revolutionary Party was his deputy Ibrahim Tahir Salam . After the fall of the Ba'ath regime, Sharif returned to Iraq and found a job at the University of Kirkuk, but was shot dead by strangers there in 2008.

literature

  • Sabih M. Shukri (Ed.): The International WHO'S WHO of the Arab World , p. 485. London 1984
  • Erhard Franz : Kurds and Kurdism - Contemporary history of a people and its national movements , pages 59 and 125. Messages 30, German Orient Institute Hamburg 1986
  • Edmund A. Ghareeb, Beth Dougherty: Historical Dictionary of Iraq , p. 217 (Sharif, Abd al-Sattar Tahir). The Scarecrow Press, Lanham / Oxford 2004

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b brusselstribunal.org: List of assassinated Iraqi Academics (Abdel Sattar Tahir Sharif is number 411)
  2. ↑ Ekurd Daily of March 6, 2008: Kurdish academic Dr Sharif killed 10 days after he wrote an article criticizing Kurdish leader
  3. ↑ Ekurd Daily of March 14, 2008: Murdered Kurdish academic Dr Sharif in Kirkuk linked to Saddam Hussein
personal data
SURNAME Sharif, Abd as-Sattar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sharif, Abdul Sattar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kurdish Iraqi politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirkuk , Iraq
DATE OF DEATH March 5, 2008
Place of death Kirkuk , Iraq