Sadegh Sharafkandi

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Sadegh Sharafkandi ( Persian صادق شرفکندی, Kurdish Mihemed Sadiq Şerefkendî , also known as Dr. Said ; * January 11, 1938 at Bukan ; † September 17, 1992 in Berlin ) was a Kurdish politician from Iran . He was chairman of the Kurdistan-Iran Democratic Party .

Life

He attended elementary and middle school in Mahabad . In 1959 he made his diploma in chemistry in Tehran . Sharafkandi was then until 1965 chemistry teacher in the cities of Urmia and Mahabad. Because of his political activities, he was first transferred to Arak and then to Karaj by the government . He was later appointed professor of chemistry in Tehran.

In 1972 Scharafkandi went to France to do his doctorate , where he met Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou in 1973 and where he received his Ph.D. in 1976 at the University of Pierre and Marie Curie. in analytical chemistry . He returned to Iran in the same year.

In 1979, after the Islamic Revolution and the flight of the Iranian Shah, he left Tehran, joined the Kurdish movement and was elected a member of the Central Committee of the DPK-I. In 1980 he rose to the party's Politburo . After negotiations on Kurdish autonomy with the Tehran government failed, fighting broke out. In August 1979, Tehran declared “ jihad ” against the DPK-I and other Kurdish organizations.

Sharafkandi's grave in Paris

After the murder of Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou in 1989 by Iranian agents in Vienna , Scharafkandi temporarily took over the party chairmanship of the DPK-I. On the IX. Party Congress at the end of 1991 he was then elected chairman. In 1992 he traveled to Berlin to attend a meeting of the Socialist International from September 15 to 17 . A few hours after the meeting ended, Sharafkandi and other politicians were shot dead by Iranian agents at a meal in the Mykonos restaurant . Ali Schirasi reported in his blog with reference to the Iranian news site news.gooya.com on August 16, 2017 that the memorial plaque to the Mykonos murder in Berlin was destroyed by people on behalf of the Iranian regime. The head of the Rahman Ghassemlou murder squad, Mohammad Jafari Sahrarudi, has also made a remarkable career in Iran.

family

Sharafkandi was married and had three children. In addition to Kurdish, he was fluent in Persian, Arabic, Turkish and French. His brother was the famous poet Hejar .

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personal data
SURNAME Sharafkandi, Sadegh
ALTERNATIVE NAMES صادق شرفکندی (Persian); Mihemed Sadiq Şerefkendî (Kurdish); Dr. Said
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kurdish politician from Iran
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH at Bukan
DATE OF DEATH 17th September 1992
Place of death Berlin