Biography

Dzhwar Faiq Ghafur was born in 1960 in the center of Kirkuk city. He completed his primary and secondary education in Kirkuk and received a higher diploma in electrical engineering in that city. His father had a relationship with the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the fifties of the last century and struggled in the ranks of that party. In 1984, he became a refugee in the country of Iran. Dzhwar Faiq is proficient in Kurdish, Arabic, Turkmen, Persian, and English.

Struggle Record

Dzhwar Faiq Ghafur in 1974, in the heat of the Aylul Revolution, joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Students Union in Kirkuk and became a member of the Kurdistan Students Union. In 1984, he headed to Eastern Kurdistan and became a refugee in the country of Iran, joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, became a Peshmerga and a member of the Khabat Printing House affiliated with the Central Media Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party at the headquarters of the Political Bureau of the Party in the village of Razhan in Eastern Kurdistan. In 1985-1986, as a student, he participated in the eighth session of the Cadre Institute of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Razhan and graduated with a very good grade. In 1986, he became a member of the Executive Committee of the Secretariat Bureau of the Kurdistan Students and Youth Union, and later became the head of the Kirkuk Branch of the Kurdistan Students and Youth Union until the 1993 Fourth Congress of the Kurdistan Students Union (known as the Freedom Congress in Erbil city after the uprising and the liberation of that city from the Iraqi Ba'ath regime).

 At the end of 1986, he was made a member of the Third Branch of the Party and a member of the Media and Organization Bureau of the Third Branch in Sharbazher, and was the editor-in-chief of the Bayan magazine of the Students Union. At the end of 1986, he was the head of the Baba Gurgur magazine, which was published by the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 1987, by order of President Masoud Barzani , he was made responsible for receiving refugee students from the seven refugee camps of Southern Kurdistan in Eastern Kurdistan on the border of the cities of Sanandaj and Kermanshah.

In 1987, he became the head of the Chamchamal Regional Committee affiliated with the Third Branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 1988, he became the first head of the Kirkuk Regional Committee and later took on the responsibility of the Shwan Regional Committee. In 1989-1993, he was a member of the High Coordination Committee between the students and youth of Kurdistan and Iraq. In 1989, he participated in a military and military command course. In that same year, he participated in the Tenth Congress of the Party in the village of Hishmawa in Eastern Kurdistan and was on the editorial board of the Students' Progress magazine. In 1990, by order of Nechirvan Idris Barzani , a member of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, he became the head of the committee for reorganizing the student and youth organizations in the refugee branch border (country of Iran).

In 1991, he was a member of the Secretariat Bureau of the Kurdistan Students and Youth Union and the head of the Kirkuk branch of that union. In 1992, he became the head of media for the Third Branch and was a branch member. In 1993, he was the head of the Refugee Committee affiliated with the Third Branch of the Party. In the same year, he was the head of the committee managing the work of the Fourth Congress of the Kurdistan Students and Youth Union, known as the Freedom Congress in Erbil city. Again in that same year, he was a member of the Eleventh Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party – Unified and a member of the Congress Management Committee. In 1994, he was made a member of the Third Branch and Deputy Governor of Kirkuk in the town of Darbandikhan. In 1994, after the outbreak of the civil war, he was the senior head of media for the Sulaymaniyah-Halabja field leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 1995, he was made Deputy of the Third Branch of the Party in Halabja city. In 1996, he was the acting Governor of Kirkuk in the town of Darbandikhan.

In 1997, with the rank of Major General, he was made a member of the command of the Kurdistan Revolutionary Army (Falak) and was a founder and head of the Peshmerga organization  
 and remained in that position until 2001. In 1999, he was a member of the Twelfth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party  .

In 2001, the task of managing the Cadre Institute of the Kurdistan Democratic Party was entrusted to him. In 2002, he was the head of the Guidance and Culture Agency in the Ministry of Interior of the Kurdistan Regional Government and participated as a lecturer in the Police College courses until 2006.

Between the years 2002 and 2006, he served in the Erbil Security with the rank of Major General.

Between the years 2006-2010, he was the head of the 22nd Garmian Branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party until the holding of the Thirteenth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party  at the end of that year.

In 2010, he was a member of the Thirteenth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In the years 2010-2014, he was made a member of the leadership of the Sulaymaniyah Leadership Council of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In the years 2014-2019, with the rank of Lieutenant General, he was transferred to the command of the Zerevani forces in Erbil city. During the years 2019 to 2024, he was made a senior advisor at the Presidency of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and head of the board for Article 140 of the Iraqi Constitution and the representative of the Kurdistan Regional Government on that committee in Baghdad city.

In 2022, he was a member of the Fourteenth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. He is an expert and knowledgeable in political, party, and mass affairs.

Source:

1- Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.