Mahmoud Ali Othman, known as Dr. Mahmoud, Dr. Mahmoud Sorani and Dr. Mahmoud Othman, in the sixth، seventh and eighth congresses became a member of the Central Committee, in the eighth congress he was elected as a member of the Central Committee and Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, in the year 1964 he became a member of the Revolutionary Command Council in Kurdistan and then became a member of the Executive Bureau (Al-Maktab al-Tanfidhi) of that council, on 15 of April 1967 as a member of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party he was a representative at the Kani Samak (Erbil) military-political conference, on 10 of January 1970 he was a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party delegation for negotiations regarding autonomy for Southern 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 to attend the ceremony of declaring autonomy for Kurdistan and he read the speech of President Mustafa Barzani at this ceremony in the city of Baghdad, on 12 of June 1988 as a representative of the Kurdistan Socialist Party (KSP) at the headquarters of the Iraqi Communist Party in the liberated areas of Erbil Governorate he signed the bylaws and program of the Kurdistan Front, on the date of 30 of January 2005 he was elected as a member of the Iraqi Transitional National Council on the Kurdistan Coalition list number 130.

Biography

Mahmoud Ali Othman, known as Dr. Mahmoud Othman, was born in the year 1938 in the city of Sulaymaniyah, he completed his primary stage in Biyara and Sulaymaniyah, and his middle and high school stages 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 of Medicine, in the year 1961 he opened his clinic for the first time in the city of Sulaymaniyah, at the beginning of the year 1974 he was the Secretary General of the Secretariat of Health and Social Affairs Aylul Revolution he was, in the year 1975 after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution he headed to Iran as a refugee, he is proficient in Kurdish, Arabic, English, French and Persian languages.

Struggle Record

In the year 1953 he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Students Union, in the year 1954 he joined the ranks of the  Party he was one of the leaders of the demonstrations in Baghdad among the students, in the year 1955 at the second congress he was 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 was made 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 in Baghdad, in the year 1959 at the fourth congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - in Iraq, due to non-compliance, he was expelled from the ranks of the Party. Mahmoud Ali Othman in the year 1962 joined the ranks of the Peshmerga, in the month of March 1963 he joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces of the Aylul Revolution and served in the Barzan region, in the year 1964 he was a teacher at the only middle school of the Aylul Revolution in Galala and in the same year 1964 he was elected by the congress representatives 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 Party, in the same year he became a member of the Revolutionary Command Council in Iraqi Kurdistan and in that same year he became a member of the Executive Bureau (Al-Maktab al-Tanfidhi) of the Revolutionary Command Council in Iraqi Kurdistan.

In the years (1965-1967) he was the head of a secret Parastin network in the areas under the authority of the Iraqi government, in the year 1965 he became the financial officer of the Executive Bureau affiliated with the Revolutionary Command Council in Iraqi Kurdistan, in the year 1966 he was elected by the congress representatives 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 again became the secretary of the Executive Bureau (Al-Maktab al-Tanfidhi) of the Revolutionary Command Council in Iraqi Kurdistan, in the year 1966 he was made a member of the relations committee of the Executive Bureau of the Revolutionary Command Council in Iraqi Kurdistan, in the same year he visited the city of Paris with the aim of strengthening the Party's external relations, on 15 of April 1967 under the supervision of President Mustafa Barzani as a member of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party he was a representative at the Kani Samak (Erbil) military-political conference, in the same year 1967 with the aim of strengthening the Party's external relations and as a representative of President Mustafa Barzani he visited the city of Washington.

In the years (1968-1969) he was a teacher of the contemporary Kurdish revolution and the history of the Kurdistan Democratic Party at the Institute for Training Revolution Teachers, in the year 1968 he was the head of the information and health department affiliated with the Executive Bureau (Al-Maktab al-Tanfidhi) of the Revolutionary Command Council in Iraqi Kurdistan, in the year 1968 he was a teacher of the contemporary Kurdish revolution and the history of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the first session of the Institute for Training Revolution Teachers, in the same year 1968 he was appointed as the second secretary of the Executive Bureau of the Revolutionary Command Council in Iraqi Kurdistan, in the years (1968-1969) he was a teacher of the history of the modern Kurdish revolution in the first session of the Kurdistan Democratic Party cadre training school in the village of Choman, affiliated with Erbil Governorate, on 31 of May 1968 as a course teacher he participated in the closing ceremony of the first general health course in the village of Makosan (Erbil), in the year 1969 he was made the head of the health and information department (Al-Siha wal-Ma'arif) in the Executive Bureau of the Revolutionary Command Council in Iraqi Kurdistan, in the year 1969 he was a mathematics and physics teacher at the Galala middle school.

In the year 1969, upon the recommendation of President Mustafa Barzani, he undertook preparations for the reactivation of the Kurdistan Teachers Union and the holding of the third congress of that union. In the year 1969, he was an instructor for the course on contemporary revolutions in the second session of the Kurdistan Democratic Party cadre training school in the village of Choman, Erbil Governorate. From the years (1969-1970), he was the head of the Kurdistan Democratic Party negotiating delegation with the ruling Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in the Republic of Iraq, with the aim of securing autonomy for Southern Kurdistan. On 10 January 1970, he was a member of the nine-person Kurdistan Democratic Party delegation for negotiations regarding autonomy for Southern 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 to attend the ceremony proclaiming autonomy for Kurdistan 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 the Sadr al-Qanat in the city of Baghdad. In the year 1970, by the representatives of the congress, he was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party at the Eighth Congress and 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, accompanied by Comrade Masoud Barzani, he visited the city of Sulaymaniyah and inspected the headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and visited the tomb of the martyr Abdulaziz Atrushi (1934-1969) in the town of Halabja, Sulaymaniyah Governorate. Then, on 2 June 1970, they visited the city of Kirkuk and were welcomed by the head of the Third Branch Committee, the Governor of Kirkuk, and the Major General of the Second Division of the Iraqi Army. In the year 1970, he was an instructor for the course on the history of Kurds and Kurdistan in the third session of the Kurdistan Democratic Party cadre training school 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 Nawprdan (Erbil). On 5 August 1970, accompanied by President Mustafa Barzani, he participated in the opening ceremony of the third congress of the Kurdistan Teachers Union in the village of Nawprdan. In the year 1970, he participated in the hospitality ceremony for the teachers of the third session of the Kurdistan Democratic Party cadre training school in the liberated areas.

On Wednesday, 2 June 1971, accompanied by President Mustafa Barzani, he welcomed a delegation from the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party in the village of Haji Omaran, Erbil Governorate. On 29 September 1971, in the terrorist attack in Haji Omaran to assassinate President Mustafa Barzani he was a companion of the President and survived death, and he himself treated the wounds of Mustafa Barzani. On Monday, 25 October 1971, at the Barzani headquarters in the village of Haji Omaran, accompanied by President Mustafa Barzani, he welcomed a delegation from the Committee for Solidarity with Asian and African Peoples and the Soviets. On Wednesday, 21 June 1972, at the Peace Palace near the town of Choman, Erbil Governorate, accompanied by President Mustafa Barzani, he welcomed a delegation from the Socialist Unity Party of Germany led by Paul Verner and discussed peace in Iraq and bilateral relations. On 27 June 1972, accompanied by Idris Barzani, they met with Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi at the Iranian Royal Palace.

On 7 July 1972, in the city of Washington, for the purpose of obtaining assistance, he met with Richard Helms, the director of the American CIA (CIA). In the year 1972, accompanied by Idris Barzani, they visited the town of Zakho, Duhok Governorate, and discussed resistance and defense against the Arabization process with members of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In the middle of October 1972, in Haji Omaran, Erbil Governorate, accompanied by President Mustafa Barzani, he welcomed the elected leadership delegation of the Dawdiya Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Syria (the transitional leadership - al-Marhaliyya). In the month of February 1973, for the purpose of meeting with Colonel Clark, he visited the city of Tehran. On Friday, 30 March 1973, he read the speech of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party at the Newroz festival in Choman, Erbil Governorate. On 18 April 1973, he participated in the opening of the Choman Tuberculosis Hospital (Erbil), which was the only specialized hospital in the liberated areas of the Aylul Revolution. On 15 May 1973, at the Galala Mosque, he participated in the opening of the first social affairs department for the election of village councils in the liberated areas of the Aylul Revolution . In the month of July 1973, he presented a seminar to the participants of the Handren cooperative camp, which was organized by the Kurdistan Students Union in the village of Nawprdan. From 8 August 1973 to 8 December 1973, he was an instructor for the course on the program and internal regulations of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the fourth session of the Kurdistan Democratic Party cadre training school in the village of Nawprdan, Erbil Governorate.

On 16 August 1973, he participated in the celebration of the 27 anniversary of the founding of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the village of Nawprdan (Erbil). From the days of 27 to 29 November 1973, he participated in the Choman political-military conference. 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 last delegation for negotiations with the authorities in Baghdad for the purpose of stopping 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's cadre training school in the village of Zinwe Sheikh in Erbil Governorate. In the year 1974, after the issuance of the law for 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, accompanied by President Mustafa Barzani, he met with Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi for the purpose of obtaining information regarding the Algiers Agreement and warning Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919-1980) about the Deputy President of Iraq, Saddam Hussein (1937-2006), known as Saddam Tikriti, for the purpose of dissuading him. In the month of May of the year 1975, he was contacted by Idris Barzani and Masoud Barzani for the purpose of preparations for the outbreak of the Gulan Revolution. During the years (1975-1976) he worked at the Iranian Red Lion and Sun Hospital. On 27 January 1977 he requested political asylum in Britain. On 11 March 1977 he visited the city of London for the purpose of meeting with Kurdish leaders.

In the year 1977 he was made head of the preparatory committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In the year 1978 he returned to Southern Kurdistan. In the year 1978 he participated in the Bekhaliski meeting on the border of Sulaymaniyah Governorate for the purpose of discussing the Hakkari war and the destruction 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 with the end of the tension between the Kurdish parties of Southern Kurdistan. In the year 1978 at the Darawi Gurgan meeting on Qandil Mountain he was involved in negotiations with the Iraqi government. On 1 October 1979 he visited the city of Baghdad for the purpose of negotiation and sat with the President of Iraq, Saddam Hussein (1937-2006), known as Saddam Tikriti, for the purpose of autonomy for Southern Kurdistan, but it became clear to him that his counterpart's only intention was to kill time. In the year 1979 at the unified Gorashir conference, he was elected by the congress representatives as a member of the executive committee of the Socialist Party of Kurdistan.

On the date of 24 November 1987 he was poisoned with thallium poison by the Iraqi Intelligence Agency and survived death. On 12 June 1988 as a representative of the Socialist Party of Kurdistan (PASOK), he signed the charter and program of the Kurdistan Front at the headquarters of the Iraqi Communist Party in Khwakurk in the liberated areas of Erbil Governorate. In early August of the year 1990 he supervised a delegation of the Kurdistan Front to visit Yasser Arafat in the Republic of Tunisia. From 15 to 17 March 1991 as a representative of the Kurdistan Front he participated in the International Conference on the Kurdish Issue in Stockholm (Sweden). On 7 April 1992 as a representative of the Socialist Party of Kurdistan he participated in the broad Pirman meeting of the Kurdistan Front for the purpose of preparation for the election process of the Kurdistan National Assembly. In the year 1992 he was a candidate for the position of leader of the Kurdish liberation movement. Out of the total votes cast, he obtained 23309 votes, which makes 2.37% of the votes, and he achieved third place, 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 by the votes of the representatives of the first congress of the Kurdistan Unity Party, he was elected as a member of the central committee. On 13 July 2003 he was appointed as a member of the Iraqi Governing Council (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 of the Kurdistan Democratic Party for the Kurdistan Alliance list for the election process of the Iraqi National Assembly. On Saturday, 15 May 2004 he was a representative of the Sovereignty and Democracy Congress, which was held 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 Assembly on the Kurdistan Alliance list number 130.

Among his works:

  1. Kurdistan Revolution - 1970.
  2. Taqyim Masirat al-Thawra al-Kurdiyya wa Inhiyaruha wal-Durus wal-Ibar al-Mustakhlasa minha (1961 - 1975) - (First edition - 1977), (Second edition - 2016).
Source:

- Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.