Writer and Politician Barzan Khalid Aziz, known as Barzan Mala Khalid and Khala Barzan, joined the Kurdistan Peshmerga Forces in 1966, and in 1975 he became a refugee in the Country of Iran, in 1982 he returned to the ranks of Kurdistan Democratic Party, in 1993 at the Eleventh Congress he was elected as a reserve member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Unified, on May 8, 1993, and in the first cabinet he became Deputy Minister of Culture of the Kurdistan Regional Government, he passed away in 2020.

Biography

Barzan Khalid Aziz was born in 1944 in the city of Erbil, his father Mala Khalid Aziz Murtkayi (1910-1981) was one of the cadres of the Hiwa Party of Kurdistan and a close friend of the Sheikhs of the Naqshbandi family of the Barzan Tekke.، Barzan Mala Khalid was a student in the final stage of high school in the city of Erbil, but he did not finish his studies due to political Activity, from (1971-1974) he was an employee of the Erbil Central District Administration, he knew all three languages: Kurdish, Arabic, and Persian. On Tuesday, August 25, 2020, he passed away in a hospital in the city of Ankara and was buried in the city of Erbil.

Struggle Record

Barzan Khalid Aziz joined the Peshmerga forces of the Fourth Branch, Second Battalion of the Safin Force, affiliated with the Second Army in February 1966, in addition to his Peshmerga work, he had an active role as a media cadre, and in 1967 he was on the editorial board of Safin magazine, the organ of the Second Branch Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and in 1968 he was a broadcaster of the Central Kurdish dialect of the Voice of Kurdistan radio in the liberated areas of Aylul Revolution .

In 1970, he was a representative of the Eighth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the village of Nawprdan, Erbil Province, in 1974, with the attack of the Iraq army on the liberated areas of Aylul Revolution in addition to media work, he joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces for the second time.

In 1975, after the collapse of Aylul Revolution he became a refugee in Iran, but he returned to Southern Kurdistan soon and was deported to the town of Fallujah on the border of Anbar Province in western Iraq, and in 1979 he was granted permission to return to the city of Erbil, in the same year he joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces of the Socialist Party of Kurdistan and worked in the media department until 1982 when he moved his position to the ranks of Kurdistan Democratic Party.

In 1983, he was appointed as a member of the editorial board of the media department of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, in 1984 he was a member of the media department bureau, and in 1985 he worked at the Voice of Kurdistan radio, on July 16, 1985, he was appointed as Assistant Director of the Media Administration of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and in the same year, he was made a branch member and head of the media department in the Second Branch Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, in 1988 he was the representative of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the media department of the Kurdistan Front.

In 1989, he was a representative of the Tenth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Eastern Kurdistan, in 1991 he participated in the uprising of Southern Kurdistan, and in 1992 he was elected as a member of the Kurdistan National Assembly in the first term on the list of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

In 1993, at the Eleventh Congress he was elected as a reserve member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Unified, and in the same year in the first cabinet, he was made Deputy Minister of Culture of the Kurdistan Regional Government.

In 2010, he was a representative and spokesperson for the Thirteenth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and due to his participation in the Aylul Revolution، Gulan Revolution and the uprising of Southern Kurdistan and the stage of sovereignty, he was awarded the Medal of the Immortal Barzani by President Masoud Barzani.

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  8. Yesterday's Newroz in the memoirs of Barzan Mala Khalid, Brayati newspaper, organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Unified, issue 2161, Pirmam, Sunday, March 24, 1996.
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