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Nawshirwan Mustafa, PUK Deputy
Secretary-General resigned today
5.12.2006
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December 5,
2006
Sulaimaniyah, Kurdistan Region, (eKurd.net),
-- The Deputy Secretary-General of the Patriotic
Union of Kurdistan (PUK) led by Iraqi President
Jalal Talabani, resign today from the Union in order
to devote more time for Cultural Affairs.
"The France-Press that Emad Ahmed, a member of the
political bureau of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
said that "Nawshirwan Mustafa, Deputy Secretary
General of Jalal Talabani, submitted his resignation
to concentrate for Cultural Affairs and the
construction of a cultural center Kurdish media."
He added, "the request for resignation was approved"
Mustafa was born in Sulaimaniyah, one of the
founders of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, the
mid-1970s. He is also one of those who planned the
uprising in March 1991.
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Nawshirwan Mustafa, the deputy Secretary General of
the PUK party |
After the fall of the Iraqi regime in 2003, he
became the representative of Talabani in the Iraqi
Governing Council.
Mustafa and several books on politics and the media,
especially on the history of the Kurdish press.
Biography
Mustafa was born in 1944 on Ber Khaneke road in the
city of Sulaimaniyah in the Kurdistan region of
Iraq. Following his graduation from high school,
Mustafa attended Baghdad University were he attained
a degree in political sciences.
Following graduation he returned to Sulaimaniyah and
was editor of the Kurdish weekly newspaper "Rizgary"
(Kurdish for Salvation) a weekly journal set up in
the brief lull in hostilities between the central
Iraqi government and its Kurdish population. During
this period he and several other Kurdish
intellectuals formed a secret nationalist party
named Komala. He was exiled soon after for
involvement in Kurdish politics. Whilst in exile he
pursued academic studies in Austria.
In 1975 whilst only 2 weeks from completing his
doctoral thesis at the University of Vienna, Mustafa
was informed that a new uprising was about to begin
in Iraqi Kurdistan and he left immediately.
Following his return, Mustafa quickly became a
leading light of the Komalai Ranjdaran grouping (a
forerunner of the modern day PUK) and became general
secretary of this organisation, before taking part
in the negotiations which led to the merging of the
Komala with the Shoresh Garan grouping of current
Iraqi president Jalal Talabani which led to the
formation of the PUK.
Military career
A military commander as well as a political figure,
Mustafa headed the Kurdish revolution from 1976, and
was the most senior member of the PUK in Iraqi
Kurdistan in the 1991 uprising which followed Iraq's
defeat in the first Gulf war. As such, he took
charge of the war of liberation fought by the
Kurdish people which involved the liberation of the
Kurdish population centres of northern Iraq
including (Kirkuk (being recognised as the architect
of the Raparin). Following the 1991 uprising Mustafa
was allowed to return to his initial career and
began to organise Kurdish academia and wrote several
books, while maintaining his political profile.
Books
*"The fingers which break
each other."
Published in:
Discusses the often treacherous nature of
contemporary Kurdish politics.
*"Going around in circles."
Published in: 1998
An account of the diplomacy of the Kurdish
liberation movement in the 1980's. A period in which
Saddam Hussein launched the genocidal Anfal campaign
against the Kurds.
*"The emirate of baban
between the grinding stones of the Persians and
Turks"
Published:
A historical account of the early Kurdish
principality of Baban (1500-1850), A frontier
principality between the Ottoman and Safavid
empires, which was a microcosm of the power
struggles of the great middle eastern empires.
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