Babakr al-Pishdari

Babakr Mahmud Rasul al-Pishdari (also Babekr Peshdari or Pishadari ) (* 1937 in Qala Diza, Sulaimaniya Province , Iraq ) is a former Kurdish politician in Iraq .

During al-Pishadri's tenure as governor, his birthplace Qala Diza and the provincial capital Sulaimaniya were initially not under the control of the government

The village of Qala Diza ( Qeladze , from the north of Sulaimaniya in the Pishdar district)قلعة دزة) born lawyer became a member of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan in 1958 , even before he graduated in Baghdad in 1961. From 1968 to 1970 he was the head of his home district.

As part of the autonomy agreement, he was in 1972 as Minister of Labor and Social Affairs in the Iraqi central government in talks, but then in 1974 first chairman of the legislative committee (regional parliament) of the Kurdish Autonomous Region and 1974-1975 governor of Sulaimaniya. (From 1974 to March 1975, the Iraqi government and the Kurdish regional government it set up ruled only the west of the province; large areas in the east with the provincial capital Sulaimaniya and Pishdari's birthplace Qala Diza were still under the control of anti-government Kurdish rebels.)

After he had handed over the chairmanship of the legislative committee to Muhammad Amin Muhammad Ahmad , Babakr al-Pishdari was appointed to Baghdad as Minister of Labor and Social Affairs from 1977 to 1979; In 1980 and 1984 he was elected to the Iraqi National Assembly for Sulaimaiya.

literature

• Sabih M. Shukri (Ed.): The International WHO'S WHO of the Arab World , pp. 411f. London 1984
• Erhard Franz : Kurds and Kurdentum - contemporary history of a people and its national movements , pages 58f and 122. Communications 30, German Orient Institute Hamburg 1986
• Edmund A. Ghareeb, Beth Dougherty: Historical Dictionary of Iraq , page 182f (Pishdari, Babakr). The Scarecrow Press, Lanham / Oxford 2004