Hashim Aqrawi

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Haschim Hassan Aqrawi (1988)

Haschim Hakim Hasan Taha 'Aqrawi ( Arabic هاشم عقراوي, DMG Hāšim ʿAqrāwī ; * 1926 in Akrê , Iraq ) is a former Kurdish politician in Iraq . (The name Aqrawi is derived from Aqra , the Arabic name for Akrê.)

As an education inspector in Ninawa , Aqrawi joined the Democratic Party of Kurdistan in 1951 , became a member of the Central Committee in 1960 and, after the Baath party came to power in 1963, Mustafa Barzani's emissary to Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser . In 1964 he was elected to the Politburo of the Barzani wing of the DPK.

As part of the autonomy negotiations in 1970 he was appointed "General Director for Kurdish Affairs" by the Iraqi central government. In October 1970 he became governor of the northern Iraqi governorate of Dohuk , 1974 governor of Babylon .

Together with Aziz Aqrawi (not related), he finally separated from Barzani in 1973. In April 1974 Hashim Aqrawi became Minister for Local Affairs in the cabinet of the central government in Baghdad, but in October 1974 he was appointed to the Kurdish Autonomous Region in northern Iraq. He became a member of the legislative council (regional parliament) and chairman of the executive council (regional government). In 1976 he was secretary of the Central Committee so-called neo-DPK , the proirakischen wing of the KDP, and in 1980 finally Secretary General of the Baath Party as part of the National Progressive Front coalescing block party .

After he had handed over the chairmanship of the Executive Committee to Ahmad an-Naqschbandi in 1977, Aqrawi was again Minister of State in the central government in Baghdad from 1977 (until 1991); In 1980 his election to the National Assembly failed.

Although Barzani's eldest son Ubaidullah also joined the neo-KDP, it remained largely insignificant within the front and within Baath-ruled Iraq and never reached the mass base of the DPK. Aqrawi's successor as general secretary was Ahmad Muhammad Said al-Atrushi in 1989 . 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.

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