Cewher Namiq Salim Ismaîl, in 1964 joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), in 1976 was elected as a member of the provisional leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (Berlin Conference), in 1989 was elected by the congress delegates as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (Tenth Congress), on 4 June 1992 was elected as the first speaker of the Kurdistan National Assembly (first term), in 2003 resigned from the post of secretary of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP).

Biography

Cewher Namiq Salim Ismaîl, who is also known by the names Selîm, Selîm Soranî, Selîm Qiyade, Fuad, and the Kurdish Che Guevara, was born in 1945 in the Garmian region, began his primary education in 1956 in the city of Khanaqin, the center of the Garmian region, in 1958 his family moved to Baghdad, in 1964 he finished middle school in the city of Baghdad, in 1964 he was appointed as an official in the Capital Secretariat on the Karkh side in the city of Baghdad, in 1968 he was transferred to the Warehouse and Diesel Agency, in 1968 he finished the preparatory stage in the evening science department in Baghdad, in 1968 he was accepted into the College of Administration and Economics, economics department, at the evening Mustansiriya University in Baghdad, in 1972 he received his Bachelor's degree from the same university.

In 1975, after the collapse of the September Revolution, he migrated to the Kingdom of Iran, in February 1981 he went to the Kingdom of Sweden as a refugee, in the years 1980-1981 he finished a Swedish language course, in 1989 he returned to Sweden for treatment due to breaking his leg, in March 1992 he married Engineer Nergiz Osman Habib.

On 15 February 2011, after falling ill, he went to Sweden for treatment and after an examination at Karolinska Hospital it was discovered that he had liver cancer, on the morning of Tuesday, 22 March 2011, he passed away in Sweden due to his illness, on 24 March 2011 his body was returned to the country via Erbil Airport and was received by President Masoud Barzani and on 25 March 2011 he was buried in his village, the village of Berlut, which belongs to the Garmian region. He was an expert in the arts of painting and drawing on canvases, a poet, a good singer, and an expert in Kurdish maqams. He knew Kurdish, Arabic, Swedish, Persian, and English well.

Work History

In 1964 he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), in 1968 he was a member of the Bilese district committee for organizing university and institute students of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the city of Baghdad and supervised the organization of evening students at Mustansiriya University, in 1972 at the request of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) he joined the Peshmerga forces and moved his home to the town of Choman in Erbil province, in 1972 he was the assistant director of the administration of the political bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in the village of Nawpirdan in Erbil province, in 1973 he worked in the media department of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), in 1973 he was appointed as an administrator of the third branch committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and began working as the head of the Protection department, in 1973 he was a teacher of social change and development lessons in the fourth course of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) cadre school in the village of Nawpirdan in Erbil province.

At the beginning of April 1975, he was tasked by Masoud Barzani with preparing for the Gulan Revolution, at the end of April 1975 he was invited by Masoud Barzani along with four others to participate in the first meeting of the provisional leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) outside the town of Naqadeh in East Kurdistan to continue defense and resistance, in the autumn of 1975, under the supervision of Masoud Barzani, with the presence of Arif Tayfur, Muhammad Riza, and the lawyer Karim Sultan who is known as Karim Shingali, they planned the Gulan Revolution in the city of Tehran, in 1975 after being exposed by the Iranian SAVAK, in order to continue his struggle he crossed illegally into North Kurdistan with Karim Shingali and with the help of Kurdish patriots and the Kurdistan Democratic Party-Turkey he reached South Kurdistan and was known within the ranks of the Peshmerga of the provisional leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) by the names Selîm, Selîm Soranî, and Selîm Qiyade, he also used the name Fuad when writing letters to Masoud Barzani, the Peshmerga of the provisional leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) called him the Kurdish Che Guevara.

In 1976 he was elected as a member of the provisional leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (Berlin Conference), in 1976 he was the head of the First Region in the Behdinan Region from the provisional leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, on 15 November 1977 he participated in the broad Bidwal meeting of the provisional leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) for the reorganization of the Peshmerga forces and the revival of the organizations, in 1979 he left the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP).

In the year 1981 he joined the Kurdistan Democratic People's Party (People's Party), from 26 to 30 July 1981 he participated in the first congress of the Kurdistan Democratic People's Party and after nominating himself he was elected by the congress representatives as a member of the Central Committee but later withdrew from this party, after returning to the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in 1989 he was elected by the congress representatives as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party at the Tenth Congress, on 13 January 1990 he was appointed as the head of the central organization department of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), in 1991 in the ninth course of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) Cadre Institute he presented a seminar on negotiations and autonomy to the course students in the town of Pirmam in Erbil province, on 7 April 1992 on behalf of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) he participated in the expanded meeting of the Kurdistan Front in Pirmam for the preparations of the Kurdistan National Assembly elections, on 4 June 1992 he was elected as a member of the Kurdistan National Assembly (first term) by the votes of the voters of the Kurdistan Region with the Kurdistan Democratic Party list, on 4 June 1992 he was elected as the first speaker of the Kurdistan National Assembly (first term).

On Wednesday 2 September 1992 he published an article in the newspaper Khabat, the organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, in 1993 he received an official license from the Ministry of Culture of the Kurdistan Regional Government as the owner of the newspaper Brayati which is the organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), on Thursday 1 July 1993 he participated in the graduation ceremony of the twelfth batch of Salahaddin University in Erbil, in 1993 he was elected by the congress representatives as a member of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party – Unified at the eleventh congress, in December 1993 he was appointed as the first head of the Central Bureau of Studies and Research of the Kurdistan Democratic Party – Unified and until the end of his work 35 books and pamphlets by authors in all fields were published in many different languages, in 1994 he gave parliamentary lessons to students of the advanced fast-track course in the town of Pirmam.

On 4 May 1994 in a joint meeting of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) he signed the ceasefire agreement and the normalization of the situation in South Kurdistan, on Monday 25 October 1994 he participated in a joint meeting of the committee for normalizing the tense situation in the Sulaymaniyah-Kirkuk provinces in the town of Qalacholan affiliated with Sulaymaniyah province, on Monday 18.12.1994 in Qalacholan he participated in the meeting of the Committee for Normalizing Sulaymaniyah Province, from 23.12.1994 to 28.03.1995 he sat in with 58 members of the Kurdistan National Assembly from all lists to condemn the civil war in the hall of the Kurdistan National Assembly, on 30 December 1994 his house in Erbil was looted by gunmen of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK).

In 1997 he became the owner of the sports newspaper Brayati, in May 1998 he presented an article at the Cairo Conference on Arab-Kurdish Dialogue, in 1999 he was elected by the congress representatives as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) at the Twelfth Congress, in 1999 he was elected as a member of the Political Bureau in the first meeting of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), from 14 to 16 December 2002 at the London conference he was elected by the representatives of the Iraqi Opposition Congress as a member of the Follow-up and Coordination Committee, on Monday 20.12.2003 with President Masoud Barzani he welcomed French Senator Emre Dimontescue, on Wednesday 02.04.2003 with the presence of President Masoud Barzani in the city of Dukan he participated in the meeting of the joint leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) with the aim of preparations for the phase of liberating Iraq, in the spring of 2003 he resigned from the post of secretary of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP).

 

From his works:

  1. Is federalism the political option in Iraq? - 2005.
  2. Kurds in the game of legal texts, A review of the permanent Constitution of Iraq (First Edition, 2007), (Second Edition, 2011).
  3. The Kurdish experience in its Pandu movement – 2011.
References:
  1. Bahram Weledbigi, Research on the demands of the Kurdish nation, Ashti newspaper, issue 28, second year, Tehran, Dushanbe, 02.06.2004. Sh., p. 1, 3.
  2. Biwar Nuredin, Kurds and Kurdistan Bibliography and index in Kurdish books, volume 2, part 3, (Tehran Press, 2016), p. 16, 343.
  3. Tariq Karezi, Jawhar Namiq Salim 1945-2011, Omar Ali Sharif, 100 notables of Kirkuk and Garmian, (Sulaymaniyah, Karo Press, 2019), p. 82-87.
  4. Jawhar Namiq Salim, Kurds in the game of legal texts, Volume 2, Second Edition, (Erbil – Aras Publishing House – 2011), p. 1-548.
  5. Jawhar Namiq Salim, The Kurdish experience in its Pandu movement, volume 3, (Erbil – Aras Publishing House – Aras Press – 2011), p. 1-552.
  6. Jawhar Namiq Salim, The role of the Kurdistan Front in the post-election phase, Khabat Newspaper, Organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, issue 636, Wednesday, 02.09.1992, p 2.
  7. Habib Muhammad Karim, History of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iraq (Key stations) 1946-1993, (Duhok, Khabat Press, 1998), p. 147, 152, 174, 182.
  8. Hassan Latif Al-Zubaidi, Encyclopedia of Iraqi Parties, (Beirut - Al-Arif Publishing House - 2007), p 341, 555.
  9. Sami Shoresh, Kurdistan and the Kurds, second edition, (Erbil - Rojhalat Press - 2019), p 145.
  10. Suleiman Mustafa Hassan, Kurds and the First Experience, (Erbil – Karo Press – 2017), p. 31, 33, 75, 80, 271.
  11. Sayyid Ali Mojani, Solmaz Sidqi, Elaha Nemati..., Culture of Rizalan and Contemporary Iraqi Families, (Tehran - Ezame Publishing House - 1392 H.), p 342.
  12. Shaban Ali Shaban, Some Political and Historical Information, 3rd Edition, (Erbil - Rojhelat Press - 2013), p. 126, 147-148.
  13. Shuwan Hussein Shink Balaki, Jawhar Namiq Salim 1946-2011 Life, Works and Political Role, Soran University, Faculty of Arts, 2016, (Unpublished Master's Thesis), p. 7, 10-13, 15-19, 22, 24, , 30, 36 - 39, 41, 44 - 45, 48, 51, 55 - 56, 58, 72, 80, 85, 89, 110, 114 - 115, 127, 130, 145 - 146, 152.
  14. Adnan Al-Mufti, Arab-Kurdish Dialogue, (Cairo - Madbouly Library - 1999), p. 174.
  15. Ali Shingali, The Kurdish Question and the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, Part Three, (Duhok - Khani Printing House - 2012), p. 168-170.
  16. Ammar Abbas Mahmud, The Kurdish question is the question of state-building, (Cairo - Al-Arabi Publishing and Distribution - 2016), p. 79.
  17. Farhad Awni, My Journalism Experience, (Erbil – Rojhelat Printing House – 2011), p. 90, 207.
  18. Karwan Mahwi, Congresses of our Party the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Shirova Magazine, Central Office of Studies and Research, Issue 14, Erbil, Haji Hashim Printing House, Autumn 2010, p. 20.
  19. Muhammad Mela Qadir, Xebatname Short History of the Party and the Culture of the Immortal Barzani, 2nd Edition, (Erbil – Aras Publishing House – 2007), p. 97.
  20. Muhammad Mela Qadir, The experience of the Immortals, (Erbil - Haji Hashim Printing House - 2014), p. 231-236.
  21. Mahmood Muhammad, Vision Interpretation, views and interpretation, Volume 1, (Erbil - Rojhelat Printing House - 2016), p. 248.
  22. Mela Shem Hamdi Haji Omerani, How did the new revolution of the year 1976 begin?!, 2nd edition, (Erbil - Haji Hashim Printing House - 2013), p. 52.
  23. Mela Faruq Shuwani, All Kurds, Volume 1, (Erbil, Cultural Printing House, 1997), p. 106.
  24. Hawjin Hama Rashid and Handren Sherzad, in the 10th congress of the Kurdistan Students Union, Birayati Newspaper, Organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, issue 3446, Erbil, Sunday, 29.07.2001, p. 1.

Kurdistan Region of Iraq, National Assembly of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Protocols of the National Assembly of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, 1999, Volume 22, (Erbil, Ministry of Education Printing House, 1999), p. 715