Aziz Aqrawi

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Sayyid Aziz Raschid 'Aqrawi (* 1924 in Akrê , Iraq ; † 2001 in the USA ) was a Kurdish officer and politician in Iraq . (The name Aqrawi is derived from Aqra , the Arabic name for Akrê.)

Aqrawi graduated from the Baghdad Military Academy as an artillery officer in 1945. For further military training he was first sent to Great Britain (1957), among other places; after the July Revolution and the overthrow of the pro-British monarchy (1958) then to the Soviet Union (1959). He was promoted to Brigadier General by the Abd al-Karim Qasim regime . (According to other sources, he was a colonel.)

After the outbreak of fighting between the Iraqi central government and Kurdish rebels (1961), Aqrawi joined the Kurdish Democratic Party of Mustafa Barzanis (1962) and became a member of the party's central committee (1964), a member of the political bureau (1969) and Barzani's foreign policy advisor. As a military commander, he led some operations against Iraqi government forces.

However, Aqrawi and Barzani broke through the autonomy agreement with the Iraqi government (1973). While Barzani himself refused the agreement and a renewed uprising instigated (1974), Aziz Aqrawi concluded that of Hashim Aqrawi (no relation) led pro-Iraqi wing of the party and worked as part of the National Progressive Front with the ruling Baath party together . In the cabinet of the central government he became Minister of State (1974) and was initially responsible for Kurdish affairs (1975–1976), then Minister of Transport (1977) and again Minister of State (1979). He was then tasked with preparing and monitoring the Iraqi parliamentary elections in the Kurdish area, but fell out with Saddam Hussein's regime and fled to Syria (1980). From there he is said to have emigrated to the USA later.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Edmund A. Ghareeb, Beth Dougherty: Historical Dictionary of Iraq , page 81 (Aqrawi, Aziz). The Scarecrow Press, Lanham / Oxford 2004
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Erhard Franz : Kurden und Kurdentum - contemporary history of a people and its national movements , page 102f. Messages 30, German Orient Institute Hamburg 1986
  3. ^ Edmund Ghareeb: The Kurdish question in Iraq , 146. Syracuse University Press, Syracuse 1981
  4. ^ Marion and Peter Sluglett: Iraq since 1958 - From Revolution to Dictatorship , page 187. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1991.
personal data
SURNAME Aqrawi, Aziz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Akrawi, Aziz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kurdish Iraqi politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Akrê , Iraq
DATE OF DEATH 2001