Yahya al-Jaf

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At the beginning of Yahya's term in office in 1983, the Iranians allied with insurgent Kurds attacked the Jaf stronghold of Penjwin , located on the Iraqi-Iranian border . The region remained competitive until 1986.

Yahya Muhammad Rashid al-Jaf (al-Jaf) is a former Kurdish politician in Iraq .

In the Kurdish Autonomous Region established by the Iraqi government in 1974 , al-Jaf was first deputy governor, then governor of Dohuk , then governor of Arbil . During the Iraqi-Iranian war he was the successor to Jamal al-Haj Sharif from 1983 to 1986 chairman of the executive council (head of the regional government) of the autonomous region before he had to hand over the chairmanship to Sirwan Abdullah Hussein . After a position in Wasit Governorate , he retired in 1991.

After the Ba'ath regime was overthrown by the US invasion in 2003, al-Jaf fled to Syria, from where he continued to have contacts with Ba'athists in Iraq, but spoke out in favor of participating in the democratization process in Iraq. Back in Iraq, he wanted to run for the Iraqi National Alliance in the parliamentary elections in March 2010 , but was excluded because of his Baathist past. In June 2010 in Damascus he supported efforts to bring together an alliance of former Baathists and formerly anti- Baathist Shiites against Iraq's Shiite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki .

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  1. ↑ The Jaf or Jaf (Jaff) are a Kurdish tribe in the governorates of Sulaimaniya and Halabdscha .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Translations on Near East and North Africa, editions 1363-1374, p. 26. Joint Publications Research Service, 1975
  2. ^ Kurdistan-Photolibrary.org: Yahya al-Jaf (FOTO, 1977)
  3. ^ Near East / South Asia Report , Issue 2852, p. 44. Foreign Broadcast Information Service, 1983
  4. ^ Erhard Franz : Kurden und Kurdentum - Contemporary history of a people and its national movements , page 58. Messages 30, German Orient Institute Hamburg 1986
  5. ^ Itamar Rabinovich, Haim Shaked: Middle East Contemporary Survey, Volume X, 1986 , p. 382. The Moshe Dayan Center, Tel Aviv 1988
  6. ↑ a b The National of January 3, 2010: Fears of a Baathist resurgence
  7. ^ A b The National of June 16, 2010: Pro-Baathist Iraqis side with rivals against PM
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SURNAME Yahya al-Jaf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Yahya Muhammad Rashid al-Jaf (full name); (al-Jaf) al-Jaf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kurdish politician in Iraq
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century