Saʿd al-Din Arkij

Saʿd ad-Din Arkidsch ( Arabic سعد الدين أركيج, Turkish Sadettin Ergeç ; * 1948 in Kirkuk ) is an Iraqi politician of Turkmen descent and former chairman of the Turkmen Front of Iraq .

biography

Saʿd ad-Din Arkidsch comes from a Turkmen family from Kirkuk, where he also attended elementary, middle and secondary school. His university education took place in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Ankara University . In 1978 he became a teacher at Baghdad University . After reprisals by the Iraqi government under Saddam Hussein against the ethnic minorities, including Turkmens, and after the execution of the former Turkmen leader Nejdet Koçak, he moved to the University of Sulaimani . In 1982, after the university in Sulaimaniyya was closed , he moved to the University of Mosul and from there to the University in Tikrit , where he worked as a teacher until 2003. In 2005 he was elected chairman of the Turkmen Front of Iraq by a large majority.

The successor of Saʿd al-Din Arkidsch as chairman of the Turkmen Front became in May 2011 Arshad Salihi .