Progressive Kurds Movement

The movement Progressive Kurds (also: Kurdish Progressive movement, Kurdish Progressive group or movement of the Kurdish Progressive ) was from 1974 to 2003 in addition to the Democratic Kurdish Party (Neo-KDP) and the Kurdistan Revolutionary Party , the third Kurdish block party in the Baath Party- led coalition government of Iraq .

The movement was led by Mullah Abdullah Ismail Ahmad , a former member of the Politburo of the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) led by Mustafa Barzani . As early as 1964, some politburo members around Ibrahim Ahmed and Jalal Talabani had separated from Barzani's KDP. Abdullah Ismail broke with Barzani only in 1972. In contrast to Barzani, Abdullah Ismail was ready to recognize the autonomy agreement for the Kurds that had been negotiated with the Iraqi government. When Barzani rebelled against the agreement, Barzani's KDP split again. Barzani's eldest son Ubaidullah founded together with the Politburo members Haschim Aqrawi and Aziz Aqrawi1974 a new, pro-Iraqi KDP (Neo-KDP) and Abdullah Ismail founded the movement Progressive Kurds . From the Ahmed / Talabani wing of the KDP , the Kurdish Revolutionary Party led by Abd as-Sattar Sharif emerged in 1970/72 and Talabani's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) in 1975 . Except for the PUK, however, none of the other parties that emerged from the KDP had a mass base comparable to that of the KDP.

The government coalition in the form of the National Progressive Front , originally formed only by the Baath Party, the Iraqi Communist Party and the Neo-KDP, was expanded in 1974 to include the Kurdish Revolutionary Party and the Progressive Kurds Movement ; Abdullah Ismail became Minister of State in the Iraqi central government (and remained so until 1989).

Individual evidence

^ Walter Markov , Alfred Anderle , Ernst Werner , Herbert Wurche: Kleine Enzyklopädie Weltgeschichte , Volume 1, page 488. Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1979
↑ ^a ^b Erhard Franz : Kurds and Kurdentum - Contemporary history of a people and its national movements , pages 59 and 116. Mitteilungen 30, Deutsches Orient-Institut Hamburg 1986
↑ Saddam Hussein : One common front line or two opposing fronts? , Page 19f. Ministry of Information (Iraq), Varese (Italy), July 1977.
^ ^A ^b ^c Helen Chapin Metz: Area Handbook Series ( Iraq - The Politics of Alliance - The Progressive National Front ), p. 196. American University, Foreign Area Studies, Washington 1990
↑ ^a ^b Sabih M. Shukri (Ed.): The International WHO'S WHO of the Arab World , p. 40. London 1984
↑ Majid Khadduri: The Gulf war - the origins and implications of the Iraq-Iran conflict , page 180. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1988
^ Marion and Peter Sluglett: Iraq since 1958 - From Revolution to Dictatorship , page 187. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1991

[1] Walter Markov , Alfred Anderle , Ernst Werner , Herbert Wurche: Kleine Enzyklopädie Weltgeschichte , Volume 1, page 488. Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1979

[Franz-2] Erhard Franz : Kurds and Kurdentum - Contemporary history of a people and its national movements , pages 59 and 116. Mitteilungen 30, Deutsches Orient-Institut Hamburg 1986

[3] Saddam Hussein : One common front line or two opposing fronts? , Page 19f. Ministry of Information (Iraq), Varese (Italy), July 1977.

[Metz-4] A ^b ^c Helen Chapin Metz: Area Handbook Series ( Iraq - The Politics of Alliance - The Progressive National Front ), p. 196. American University, Foreign Area Studies, Washington 1990

[who-5] Sabih M. Shukri (Ed.): The International WHO'S WHO of the Arab World , p. 40. London 1984

[6] Majid Khadduri: The Gulf war - the origins and implications of the Iraq-Iran conflict , page 180. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1988

[7] Marion and Peter Sluglett: Iraq since 1958 - From Revolution to Dictatorship , page 187. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1991