Latif Barzandschi
Sheikh Latif al-Hafid Barzandschi (* after 1915 in Barzinjah, Sandzak as-Sulaimaniya, then Ottoman Empire ; † 1972 in Iraq ), sometimes referred to as Barzanji, Barzinji or Barzinja transcribed, was a Kurdish politicians in Iraq. He was the youngest of the three sons of Sheikh Mahmud Barzanji (Mehmûd Berzincî).
His father Mahmud led several unsuccessful uprisings against the British colonial power in the northern Iraqi province of Sulaimaniya between 1919 and 1941 and was ultimately exiled to Baghdad . In 1939 reports, the British suspected that Latif would follow in his father's footsteps as soon as the opportunity presented itself:
" Latif is the pet of his father, and will follow closely in his footsteps, if he has the chance to do so. "
Unlike his father, Latif supported Mustafa Barzani's first uprising in 1943 and became a founding member of Barzani's Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) in 1946 . During Barzani's absence in Soviet exile, Latif initially acted in Iraq from 1946 as one of the two vice-presidents of the KDP, but the party was actually led by left functionaries around Ibrahim Ahmed .
The partially still feudal conditions on the extensive large estates of the Barzandschis aroused the displeasure of Kurdish communists, and some left-wing KDP members defected to the communists. Latif, who had been attacked by the communists during the Iraqi uprising of 1947/48, joined the Iraqi Communist Party immediately after the revolution of 1958 - allegedly only to avert communist land reform. His brother Baba Ali became a minister in the communist-backed government of Abd al-Karim Qasim . After Qasim's break with Barzani (1961 uprising) and Qasim's fall and the defeat of the Communist Party (1963), Latif was again active for the KDP.
Latif's son Kawa finally separated from Barzani in 1974 at the latest and became a member of the Legislative Council (regional parliament) in the Kurdish Autonomous Region established by the Iraqi government .
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- ↑ a b c d e Erhard Franz : Kurden und Kurdentum - Contemporary history of a people and its national movements , pages 126, 164f, 171f. Messages 30, German Orient Institute Hamburg 1986
- ^ A b Robin Leonard Bidwell : British documents on foreign affairs - reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print , Volume 9 (From the First to the Second World War. Series B, Turkey, Iran, and the Middle East, 1918–1939 ), P. 305. University Publications of America, Michigan 1985
- ↑ Wadie Jwaideh: The Kurdish National Movement - Its Origins and Development , page 230. Syracuse University Press, New York 2006
- ^ Ofra Bengio: Kurdish Awakening - Nation Building in a Fragmented Homeland , 77. University of Texas Press, Austin 2014
- ↑ Michael M. Gunter: Historical Dictionary of the Kurds , p. 172.Scarecrow Press, Lanham 2010
- ↑ Ronen Zeidel, Amatzia Baram, Achim Rohde: Iraq Between Occupations - Perspectives from 1920 to the Present , page 80. Springer, New York 2010
- ↑ Mohammed Shafi Agwani: Communism in the Arab East , page 69f. Asia Publishing House, Calcutta 1969
- ^ Society for the Study of Oriental Culture: Journal D'histoire Du Soufisme , Volumes 1-2, page 138. Simurg, University of Michigan 2000
- ^ Martin van Bruinessen : Agha, shaikh, and state - the social and political structures of Kurdistan , p. 212. Zed Books, Michigan 1992
- ^ Martin van Bruinessen : Mullas, Sufis and Heretics - The Role of Religion in Kurdish Society , p. 118. Isis Press, Michigan 2000
- ↑ Kurdistan-Photolibrary.org: Sheikh Latif Barzinji around 1920 , 1939 (with father Mahmud and mother Aisha) and 1963 (with Talabani)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Barzanji, Latif |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Barzinji, Latif |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Founding member and Vice President of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan |
| DATE OF BIRTH | after 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Barzinjah, today's province of as-Sulaimaniya |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1972 |
| Place of death | Iraq |