Mahmoud Ali Osman, known by the names (Dr. Mahmoud, Dr. Mahmoud Sorani and Dr. Mahmoud Osman), has been recognized. In the congresses of 6,7 and 8 he became a member of the central committee. In the eighth congress he was elected as a member of the central committee and the political bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In the year 1964 he became a member of the leadership council of the revolution in Kurdistan and later became a member of the executive office (al-maktab al-tanfidhi) of that council. On 15 of April 1967 he was the representative of the military-political conference of Kani Simak (Erbil) as a member of the political bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. On 10 of January 1970 he was a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party delegation for negotiations on the autonomy of South Kurdistan with officials of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in the city of Baghdad. On 11 of March 1970 he was a member of the Kurdish delegation for attending the ceremonies of the return of the autonomy of Kurdistan and read the speech of President Mustafa Barzani at this ceremony in the city of Baghdad. On 12 of June 1988 he signed the charter and program of the Kurdistan Front representing the Kurdistan Socialist Party (PSK) at the Xwakurk base of the Iraqi Communist Party in the liberated areas of Erbil province. On the date of 30 of January 2005 he was elected as a member of the Iraqi National Assembly on the Kurdistan Alliance list number 130.

 

Biography

Mahmoud Ali Osman is known as Dr. Mahmoud Osman and was born in the city of Sulaymaniyah in the year 1938. He completed primary school in Biyare and Sulaymaniyah, and middle and high school in the city of Sulaymaniyah. In the year 1961 he completed the College of General Medicine at the University of Baghdad and received a bachelor's degree in medicine. In the year 1961 he opened his first clinic in the city of Sulaymaniyah. At the beginning of the year 1974 he became the general secretary of the health and social affairs secretariat of the September Revolution. In the year 1975 after the defeat of the September Revolution, he went to Iran as a refugee. He is an expert in the Kurdish, Arabic, English, French and Persian languages.

Work History

In the year 1953 he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Students Union. In the year 1954 he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. He was one of the leaders of the Baghdad demonstrations within the student ranks. In the year 1955 at the second congress he became a member of the Secretariat of the Kurdistan Students Union. In the year 1956 he became the Secretary of the Kurdistan Students Union. In the year 1956 he became a member of the committee of the fifth branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. On 21 of March 1957 he participated in the Newroz celebration of Baghdad. In the year 1959 at the fourth congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iraq, he was expelled from the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party due to non-compliance. Mahmoud Ali Osman joined the ranks of the Peshmerga in the year 1962. In the month of March 1963 he joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces of the September Revolution and served in the Barzan area. In the year 1964 he was a teacher at the only central school of the September Revolution in Gelale and in the same year 1964 he was elected by the congress delegates at the sixth congress as a member of the central committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and in the first meeting of the central committee he was elected as a member of the political bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In the same year he became a member of the leadership council of the revolution in Iraqi Kurdistan and in that same year he became a member of the executive office (al-maktab al-tanfidhi) of the Leadership Council of the Revolution in Iraqi Kurdistan.

 

In the years (1965 - 1967) he was the head of a secret protection network in the areas under the control of the Iraqi Government. In the year 1965 he became the financial head of the executive office affiliated with the leadership council of the revolution in Iraqi Kurdistan, and in the year 1966 he was elected by the congress delegates as a member of the central committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party at the seventh congress. Later, in the first meeting of the central committee, he was elected as a member of the political bureau. In the year 1966 he became the secretary of the executive office (al-maktab al-tanfidhi) of the Leadership Council of the Revolution in Iraqi Kurdistan again. In the year 1966 he became a member of the relations committee of the executive office of the Leadership Council of the Revolution in Iraqi Kurdistan, and in the same year he visited the city of Paris with the aim of strengthening the external relations of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. On 15 of April 1967 under the supervision of President Mustafa Barzani he was the representative of the military-political conference of Kani Simak (Erbil) as a member of the political bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. Also in the year 1967 with the aim of strengthening the external relations of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and representing President Mustafa Barzani he visited the city of Washington.

 

In the years (1968 - 1969) he was a teacher of the contemporary Kurdish revolution course and the history of the Kurdistan Democratic Party at the institute for training revolutionary teachers. In the year 1968 he was the head of the scientific and health department affiliated with the executive office (al maktab al tanfidhi) of the Revolutionary Leadership Council in Iraqi Kurdistan. In the year 1968 he was a teacher of the contemporary Kurdish revolution course and the history of the Kurdistan Democratic Party at the first session of the institute for training revolutionary teachers. Also in the year 1968 he was appointed as the second secretary of the executive office of the Revolutionary Leadership Council in Iraqi Kurdistan. In the years (1968 - 1969) he was a teacher of the contemporary Kurdish revolution history course at the first session of the school for training cadres of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the village of Choman, affiliated with Erbil province. On 31 May 1968 he participated as a course instructor in the graduation ceremony of the first session of public health in the village of Makosan (Erbil). In the year 1969 he became the head of the health and scientific department (al sihhiye wal maarif) at the executive office of the Revolutionary Leadership Council in Iraqi Kurdistan. In the year 1969 he was a mathematics and physics teacher at the Gelale central school.

 

In the year 1969 upon the instruction of President Mustafa Barzani he began preparations for reorganizing the Kurdistan Teachers Union and holding the third congress of that union. In the year 1969 he was a teacher of the contemporary revolutions course at the second session of the school for training cadres of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the village of Choman, affiliated with Erbil province. In the years (1969 - 1970) he was the head of the negotiating delegation of the Kurdistan Democratic Party with the ruling Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in the Republic of Iraq, which was for the purpose of securing autonomy for South Kurdistan. On 10 January 1970 he was a member of the nine-person delegation of the Kurdistan Democratic Party for negotiations on the autonomy of South Kurdistan with officials of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in the city of Baghdad. On 11 March 1970 he was a member of the Kurdish delegation for attending the ceremony of the announcement of Kurdistan's autonomy and read the speech of President Mustafa Barzani at this ceremony in the city of Baghdad. On the date of 29 March 1970 he participated in the Newroz celebration at Sadir Qanati in the city of Baghdad. In the year 1970 he was elected by the congress representatives as a member of the central committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party at the eighth congress. In the same year, at the first meeting of the central committee, he was elected as a member of the political bureau.

 

At the end of May 1970 in the company of comrade Masoud Barzani he visited the city of Sulaymaniyah and visited the headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and visited the grave of the martyr Abdulaziz Atrushi (1934 - 1969) in the town of Halabja, affiliated with Sulaymaniyah province. Later on 2 June 1970 he visited the city of Kirkuk and was welcomed by the head of the branch three committee, the governor of Kirkuk, and the commander of the second division of the Iraqi army. In the year 1970 he was a teacher of the history of Kurds and Kurdistan course at the third session of the school for training cadres of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the city of Baghdad. On 15 July 1970 he participated in the opening ceremony of the sixth congress of the Kurdistan Students Union in the village of Nawpirdan (Erbil). On 5 August 1970 he participated with President Mustafa Barzani in the opening ceremony of the third congress of the Kurdistan Teachers Union in the village of Nawpirdan. In the year 1970 he participated in the reception ceremony for the teachers of the third session of the school for training cadres of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the liberated areas.

 

On Wednesday, 2 June 1971 with President Mustafa Barzani he welcomed a delegation of the central committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party in the village of Haji Omeran, affiliated with Erbil province. On 29 September 1971 during the terrorist attack in Haji Omeran to assassinate President Mustafa Barzani he was with the President and survived death, and he himself treated the wound of Mustafa Barzani . On Monday, 25 October 1971 at the Barzani Headquarters in the village of Haji Omeran with President Mustafa Barzani he welcomed the delegation of the committee for the support of Asian, African, and Soviet peoples. On Wednesday, 21 June 1972 at the Peace Palace near the town of Choman, affiliated with Erbil province, with President Mustafa Barzani he welcomed a delegation of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany led by Paul Verner and held discussions regarding peace in Iraq and bilateral relations. On 27 June 1972 with Idris Barzani, he held a meeting with Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi at the Iranian royal palace.

 

On 7 July 1972 in the city of Washington, he held a meeting with Richard Helms, Director of the American (CIA) agency, for the purpose of obtaining support. In the year 1972 with Idris Barzani, he visited the town of Zakho, affiliated with Duhok province, and held discussions with members of the Kurdistan Democratic Party regarding resistance and defense against the Arabization process. In the middle of October 1972 in Haji Omeran, affiliated with Erbil province, with President Mustafa Barzani welcomed the delegation of the elected leadership of the Dawidiye congress of the Kurdish Democratic Party in Syria (Leadership phase - al marhala). In February 1973 he visited the city of Tehran with the intention of meeting with Colonel Clark. On Friday, 30 March 1973 he read the speech of the political bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party at the Newroz festival in Choman, which is part of Erbil province. On 18 April 1973 he participated in the opening of the Sili Choman Hospital (Erbil), which was the only private hospital in the areas liberated by the Aylul Revolution. On 15 May 1973 he participated in the opening of the first social affairs department at the Gelale mosque for the election of the Village Council in the Areas Liberated by the Aylul Revolution. In July 1973 he presented a seminar to the participants of the Herewezi Hendren camp, which had been organized by the Kurdistan Students Union in the village of Nawpirdan. From 8 August 1973 until 8 January 1973 he was a lecturer on the program and internal regulations of the Kurdistan Democratic Party at the fourth session of the Kurdistan Democratic Party cadre training school in the village of Nawpirdan, which is part of Erbil province.

 

On 16 August 1973 he participated in the ceremony commemorating the 27 year of the founding of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the village of Nawpirdan (Erbil). On the days of 27 to 29 November 1973 he participated in the political-military conference of Choman. In the year 1974 before the start of the war between the Peshmerga forces of the Aylul Revolution affiliated with the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, he led the final delegation for negotiations with the authorities in Baghdad, which was intended to stop the war. In the year 1974 he presented a seminar on the relationship between the revolution and Baghdad to the students of the sixth session of the Kurdistan Democratic Party cadre training school in the village of Zinuya Shekhi, which is part of Erbil province. In the year 1974 after the passage of the law on the legislative council and the executive council of the Kurdistan Region, he was appointed Minister of Health. On 11 March 1975 in the city of Tehran with President Mustafa Barzani he held a meeting with Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi with the intention of obtaining information about the Algiers Agreement and warning Shah Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (1919 - 1980) regarding the Deputy President of Iraq Saddam Hussein (1937 - 2006), known as Saddam Tikriti, with the intention of dissuading him. In May of the year 1975 he was contacted by Idris Barzani and Masoud Barzani with the intention of making preparations for the start of the Gulan Revolution was. In the years (1975 - 1976) he worked at the Lion and Sun Hospital in Iran. On 28 January 1977 he requested political asylum from Britain. On 11 March 1977 he visited the city of London with the intention of meeting with Kurdish leaders.

 

In the year 1977 he became the Head of the Preparatory Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and in the year 1978 he returned to South Kurdistan. In the year 1978 he participated in the Bekhaliski meeting on the border of Sulaymaniyah province, which was intended to evaluate the Hakkari war and the loss of most of the forces of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan at the hands of the forces of the provisional leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In the year 1978 he was involved in the cessation of tensions between the Kurdish parties of South Kurdistan. In the year 1978 he was at the Derawi Gurgan meeting on Qandil Mountain for negotiations with the Iraqi Government. On 1 October 1979 he visited the city of Baghdad for negotiations and sat with the President of Iraq Saddam Hussein (1937 - 2006), known as Saddam Tikriti, with the intention of autonomy for South Kurdistan, but he realized that their only intention was to kill time. In the year 1979 at the Unity of the Strugglers conference, he was elected by the congress representatives as a member of the executive committee of the Kurdistan Socialist Party.

 

On the date of 24 November 1987 he was poisoned with Salyom poison by the Iraqi Intelligence Agency and survived death. On 12 June 1988 he represented the Kurdistan Socialist Party (PSK) at the Xwakurk base of the Iraqi Communist Party in the liberated areas of Erbil province and signed the charter and program of the Kurdistan Front. At the beginning of August of the year 1990 he led a Kurdistan Front delegation that was for the visit of Yasser Arafat in the Republic of Tunisia. From 15 to 17 March 1991 he participated as a representative of the Kurdistan Front in the international congress on the Kurdish cause in Stockholm (Sweden). On 7 April 1992 he participated as a representative of the Kurdistan Socialist Party in the broad Pirman meeting of the Kurdistan Front, which was intended for preparations for the election process of the Kurdistan National Council. In the year 1992 he was a candidate for the position of leader of the Kurdish Liberation Movement, he obtained 23309 votes out of the total votes cast, which makes 2.37% of the votes, he achieved the third rank, but he did not get the necessary votes to become the leader. On Thursday, 20 August 1992 in the city of Erbil he participated in the first congress of the Kurdistan Unity Party. On Thursday, 27 August 1992 he was elected as a member of the central committee by the votes of the representatives of the first congress of the Kurdistan Unity Party. On 13 July 2003 he was appointed as a member of the Iraqi Governing Council (Transitional) (Majlis al-Hukm al-Intiqali al-Iraqi). In the year 2004 he was a representative of the Iraqi National Congress. In the year 2004 he was a candidate for the Kurdistan Democratic Party for the Kurdistan Alliance list for the election process of the Iraqi National Council. On Saturday, 15 May 2004 he was a representative of the Sovereignty and Democracy Congress, which was organized in the city of Erbil with the presence of 600 representatives. On 30 January 2005 he was elected as a Member of the Iraqi Transitional National Council on the Kurdistan Alliance list with the number 130.

 

His works:

Kurdistan Revolution 1970.

Evaluation of the Path of the Kurdish Revolution and its setbacks, lessons, and conclusions drawn from it (1961 - 1975) - (First edition 1977) - (Second edition 2016).



 

Source:

1 - Archive of the Encyclopedia Board of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.