Mukarram Talabani

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Mukarram aț-Țālabānī (* 1925 in Kirkuk , Iraq ) is a former Kurdish communist politician in Iraq .

After studying law in Baghdad, Talabani initially worked as a lawyer from 1946, but was imprisoned from 1948 to 1955 and was only able to work as a lawyer again after the fall of the Iraqi monarchy. Under the Republican government of Abd al-Karim Qasim , he became head of the state tobacco company in 1959 and later inspector of the Ministry of Agrarian Reform.

Originally a supporter of the Kurdish Democratic Party , Mukarram Talabani broke up with KDP leader Mustafa Barzani in 1963 after he helped overthrow the Qasim regime. Talabani joined the Iraqi Communist Party and became a member of the Communist Central Committee.

As part of the National Progressive Front formed by Baathists, Communists and Kurds , Talabani was Minister for Irrigation in a coalition government from 1972 to 1977, then Minister for Transport. With the exit of the communists from the National Front, Talabani lost his post in 1978 and initially went into exile in Eastern Europe. After the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, he returned to Iraq in 1989 and contacted Kurdish rebel groups as an advisor or envoy to President Saddam Hussein . In 1995 he tried in vain to achieve a reconciliation for the Ba'ath regime with the PUK chief , his distant relative, Jalal Talabani , who was rebelling against the regime .

Remarks

  1. ↑ At the same time (1959–1963) Has (s) an Talabani (as successor to the Kurd Baba Ali Barzandschi ) was communications minister (information minister) in Qasim's cabinet.
  2. ↑ Shortly afterwards (1964), Jalal Talabani and the left in the KDP Politburo broke with Barzani.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Erhard Franz : Kurden und Kurdentum - Contemporary history of a people and its national movements , pages 126 and 171. Mitteilungen 30, Deutsches Orient-Institut Hamburg 1986
  2. ^ A b Edmund A. Ghareeb, Beth Dougherty: Historical Dictionary of Iraq , p. 234 (Talabani, Mukarram). The Scarecrow Press, Lanham / Oxford 2004
  3. ↑ Gérard Chaliand: A People Without a Country - The Kurds and Kurdistan , page 228. Zed Books, London 1993
  4. ↑ Thomas Koszinowski, Hanspeter Mattes: Middle East Yearbook 1995 - Politics, Economy and Society in North Africa and the Near and Middle East , page 197. Leske + Budrich, Opladen 1996
personal data
SURNAME Talabani, Mukarram
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Țālabānī, Mukarram aț-
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iraqi Kurdish politician and communist
DATE OF BIRTH 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirkuk , Iraq