Ibrahim Tahir Salam

Ibrahim Tahir Salam , sometimes also Taher or Sallam transcribed (* 1940 in Dohuk , Iraq ), is a former Kurdish politician in Iraq.

Flag of the Kurdish Revolutionary Party , of which Salam was General Secretary

Salam was initially deputy general secretary of the Kurdish Revolutionary Party loyal to Baghdad , which Abd as-Sattar Sharif had split off from the Kurdish Democratic Party in 1974/76 . As a bloc party in coalition with the Baath Party, the Kurdish Revolutionary Party won several seats in the parliamentary elections and the elections for the autonomous Kurdish regional parliament as part of the National Progressive Front . After the Kuwait War , however, the majority of the autonomous Kurdish region was under the control of anti-government rebels from 1991 and could no longer participate in the Iraqi parliamentary elections. The 30 seats planned for the Kurdish constituencies were therefore occupied by Kurds selected by President Saddam Hussein . One of these nominees was Salam, who had replaced Sharif as general secretary of the party in 1997, and in 2000 was a member of the Iraqi National Assembly for the constituency of Dohuk.

After the fall of the Ba'ath regime in 2003, the surviving party politicians were arrested by US occupiers and their Kurdish allies, effectively smashing the Kurdish Revolutionary Party.

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• AP dated May 30, 1997: TURKISH AIR RAID KILLS AT LEAST 9 IRAQI KURDS
• National Assembly of the Republic of Iraq: The Fifth National Assembly ( Memento of November 4, 2001 in the Internet Archive )
• National Assembly of the Republic of Iraq: Parlamentarians ( Memento of October 31, 2001 in the Internet Archive )
• CQ Press: Political Handbook of the Middle East 2006 , 185. CQ Press 2006
• Daily Report: Near East & South Asia , p. 46. The Service 1995