Ahmad Muhammad Said al-Atrushi
Ahmad Muhammad Sa'id al-Atrushi (* 1947 in Atrush, Dohuk , Iraq ) is a former Kurdish politician in Iraq . Until 2003 he was general secretary of the Baghdad-loyal wing of the Kurdistan Democratic Party , which split off in 1974 under Hashim Aqrawi from the party led by Mustafa Barzani .
Atrushi first studied law and politics and then joined the party wing led by Aqrawi. This wing of the party, also known as the "Neo-DPK", had won several seats in the parliamentary elections and the elections for the autonomous Kurdish regional parliament as a bloc party in coalition with the Ba'ath Party in the 1980s as part of the National Progressive Front . In 1989 he replaced Aqrawi as general secretary of the party.
After the Kuwait War , however, from 1991 onwards, most of the autonomous Kurdish region was under the control of anti-government rebels and could not take part in the Iraqi parliamentary elections. The 30 seats planned for the Kurdish constituencies were therefore occupied by Kurds selected by President Saddam Hussein . As one of these nominees, al-Atrushi was elected to the Iraqi National Assembly as a member of the Dohuk constituency in 2000.
After the fall of the Baath regime in 2003, the surviving party politicians were arrested by US occupiers and their Kurdish allies, effectively smashing the neo-DKP.
Individual evidence
- ^ Kurdish Observer of November 15, 2001: SADDAM COMMENTS TO KURD COLLABORATOR GROUP
- ↑ National Assembly of the Republic of Iraq: Parlamentarians ( Memento of October 31, 2001 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Los Angeles Times of July 3, 1989, p. 12: Iraq Kurd Party Election
- ↑ National Assembly of the Republic of Iraq: The Fifth National Assembly ( Memento of November 4, 2001 in the Internet Archive )
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| SURNAME | Atrushi, Ahmad Muhammad Said al- |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Atrushi, Muhammad Said Ahmad al- |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Kurdish politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Atrush , Dohuk , Iraq |