Abdullah Ismail Ahmad

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Mullah Abdullah Isma'il Ahmad (* 1927 in Schaqlawa or Erbil , Iraq ), also known as Mulla (h) Motor (roughly "motorcycle mullah"), was a Kurdish politician in Iraq .

Flag of the Kurdish Revolutionary Party , which Ahmad joined

After training as an Islamic clergyman, Ahmad joined the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) in 1950 and 1951 , became a member of the party's central committee in 1957 and a member of the Politburo in 1958. However, over the question of the relationship with the Iraqi central government and the attitude towards autonomy agreements with the central government, the party broke up: The Ahmed / Talabani wing split off as early as 1964 , from which the Kurdish Revolutionary Party emerged in 1970 and 1972 respectively (before Talabani 1975 founded his own party ). The left wing of the KDP founded a "new" KDP ("Neo-KDP") in 1974. In 1972, Ahmad led another KDP split, the Progressive Kurds Movement , before joining the Kurdish Revolutionary Party in 1976.

As part of the National Progressive Front , these democratic, revolutionary and progressive Kurds formed a coalition as bloc parties with the ruling Ba'ath Party , so that in 1974 Ahmad was initially admitted to the Iraqi government as Minister of State. After the parliamentary elections in 1980 he moved to the Iraqi National Assembly as a member of the Iraqi National Assembly for Erbil, but was not re-elected in 1984. Then he was again Minister of State in various cabinets until 1989.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Erhard Franz : Kurden und Kurdentum - Contemporary history of a people and its national movements , pages 59 and 116. Messages 30, German Orient Institute Hamburg 1986
  2. ↑ a b c Sabih M. Shukri (Ed.): The International WHO'S WHO of the Arab World , page 40. London 1984
  3. ^ Edmund A. Ghareeb, Beth Dougherty: Historical Dictionary of Iraq , p. 377. The Scarecrow Press, Lanham / Oxford 2004
personal data
SURNAME Ahmad, Abdullah Ismail
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ahmed, Abdallah Ismael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kurdish Iraqi politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Shaqlawa , Iraq