Abdul Karim Tawfiq Ahmed, a lawyer and politician, was a member of the Political Bureau of the Revolution Party in 1945, joined the ranks of the Kurdish Rizgari Party in 1945, and in 1946 at the First Congress was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, in 1946 at the first meeting of the Central Committee he was elected as a member of the Political Bureau, in 1950 he was elected by the representatives of the conference at the Koya Conference as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and in 1951 he was a representative of the Second Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the city of Baghdad.
BiographyAbdul Karim Tawfiq Ahmed was born in the city of Erbil. In 1940, at the beginning of the activities of the Kurdish Hiwa Party in the town of Koya, he worked as an active member. In 1942, he finished the King Faisal High School in Baghdad in English. In 1942, he was accepted into the evening Law College in Baghdad. In 1944, he was appointed as an official of the Tobacco Monopoly in Baghdad. In 1944, he was a member of the leadership of the Struggle Union Society (Wahdat al-Nidal). In 1945, he was a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party in Iraqi Kurdistan (Revolution Party). In 1945, he joined the ranks of the Kurdish Rizgari Party. In 1945, he was a member of the editorial board of the Shorish newspaper, the organ of the Communist Party in Iraqi Kurdistan and the organ of the Kurdish Rizgari Party. In 1945, the printing press of the Communist Party in Iraqi Kurdistan and the Kurdish Rizgari Party, which was actually one printing facility, was hidden in the house where he lived in Baghdad. He passed away in 1983 in Baghdad and was buried in the town of Koya.
Struggle RecordAbdul Karim Tawfiq Ahmed participated in the congress for the dissolution of the Revolution Party in Baghdad in early summer 1946 and voted to join the Kurdistan Democratic Party, in 1946 at the First Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and in the first unification, he was elected by the congress representatives as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, in 1946 at the first meeting of the Central Committee he was elected as a member of the Political Bureau, in 1946he lived secretly in a house where the printing press and secret documents of the Party were kept in the Adhamiyah neighborhood of Baghdad. In 1947, he finished the Law College in Baghdad with a bachelor's degree. In 1947, he was transferred as an inspector of the Tobacco Monopoly to the town of Koya, affiliated with the Erbil Governorate. In 1950, at the Koya Conference, he was elected by the conference representatives as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 1951, he was a representative of the Second Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the city of Baghdad. In 1953, he moved away from party work.
In 1953, he was transferred as a Tobacco Monopoly inspector to the town of Halabja, affiliated with the former Sulaymaniyah Governorate and the current Halabja Governorate. In 1954, regarding the fraud of the Iraqi government in the Sulaymaniyah municipal elections, lawyer Omar Mustafa Muhammad Amin (1923-1992), known as Omar Dababa, and lawyer Jalil Yusuf Ahmed (1921-1996), known as Jalil Hoshyar, expressed their dissatisfaction and were exiled by the authorities as detainees to the city of Erbil. The people of Koya expressed their dissatisfaction in this regard and demanded their return, and he was one of them. In 1959, he was the deputy director of the Tobacco Monopoly in the Sulaymaniyah Governorate. In 1960, he was made the director of the Tobacco Monopoly Department in the Sulaymaniyah Governorate. In 1960, he was made the director of the Erbil Tobacco Monopoly. In 1963, he was imprisoned and tortured by the National Guard (al-Haras al-Qawmi) forces. After eight months of imprisonment, he was released. At the end of 1963, he resumed work as the director of the Sulaymaniyah Tobacco Monopoly Directorate and then was the director of the Erbil Tobacco Monopoly until 1970. In 1970, he was transferred to the city of Baghdad and made the General Director of the Tobacco Monopoly in Baghdad. In 1970, he was the head of the Administrative Council of the Iraqi Tobacco Monopoly. In 1972, he was the editor-in-chief of the Tobacco magazine. On February 6, 1972, he was retired by a republican decree at his own request. On June 16, 1983, he passed away in the city of Baghdad and was laid to rest in the town of Koya. He was proficient in the Kurdish, Arabic, and English languages.
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