Biography

Muhammed Emin Muhammed Ali Salih Suleyman, who is also known by the name Heme Emin Beg, was born on July 24, 1924, in the city of Sulaymaniyah. He is from the noble families of Sulaymaniyah, which is one of the oldest families in Sulaymaniyah. On October 25, 1948, he was appointed as a temporary employee with the rank of professional supervisor in the Directorate of (General Works), and on March 27, he was appointed as a permanent employee.

In the year 1953, he received a master's degree in civil engineering from the University of Michigan in America. In the year 1956, he was appointed as the director of roads for the Amara province in southern Iraq. In the year 1959, he was a member of the executive committee of the Iraqi Engineers Union. On May 21, 1958, he was transferred as an engineer to the road directorate of Hilla province. On October 4, 1958, he was transferred to the road directorate of Diyala province. On September 12, 1961, he was transferred to the General Residence directorate in the city of Baghdad. On October 27, 1963, he submitted his resignation from work. On March 26, 1967, by a presidential decree, he was appointed as the general director of construction and reconstruction of the north. In November 1967, he was a member of the employee selection committee of the Ministry of Northern Affairs. On April 5, 1969, his rank was promoted to Chief Engineer. On August 18, 1970, by order of the Revolutionary Command Council, he became the general director of the Ministry of Northern Affairs in the cabinet of Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr (1914-1982). On December 31, 1970, he was a member of the High Committee for the Planning of Construction and Development of Kurdistan. In the year 1972, he supervised the construction of 30 thousand houses in South Kurdistan for the families of martyrs and Peshmerga.

In the year 1975, while he was traveling, he was seriously injured in a traffic accident. In the year 1975, after the collapse of the September Revolution he migrated to Iran as a refugee. In the year 1977, he went to London for medical treatment. On May 9, 1979, he passed away in a London hospital, far from his family and country, after a long battle with cancer. Upon his request, his body was taken to Sulaymaniyah and laid to rest in the Gird-i Saywan cemetery. He was retired on September 14, 1980. He was fluent in Kurdish, Arabic, English, and Persian.

Work History

In the year 1949, he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). During the period of open activity of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in the era of the rule of Abd al-Karim Qasim (1914-1963), he was the representative of the KDP in the Iraqi Engineers Union. In the year 1963, he joined the ranks of the Peshmerga Forces. In the year 1963, he became a member of the Fifth Branch committee. In the year 1964, he became a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Sixth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, in the year 1964 he became a member of the Revolutionary Command Council in Iraqi Kurdistan, in the year 1964 he became a member of the Executive Bureau of the Revolutionary Command Council in Iraqi Kurdistan, at the end of the year 1965 he was elected as a member of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), and on April 15, 1967, under the supervision of President Mustafa Barzani, as a member of the Executive Bureau of the Revolutionary Command Council in Iraqi Kurdistan, he participated in the military-political conference in Kani Simak (Erbil).

In the year 1970, he was a representative of the Eighth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). On September 29, 1971, in the village of Haji Omaran in Erbil province, he attended the speech of President Mustafa Barzani (1903-1979) following the suicide attempt by the Iraqi government to assassinate President Mustafa Barzani. In the year 1972, he represented the Fifth Branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and traveled from Baghdad to Sulaymaniyah with the body of Sheikh Latif Hafid. In the year 1972, President Mustafa Barzani sent a delegation of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) with Salih Abdullah Najmaddin (1918-1981), known as Seyda Salih Yousfi, Engineer Nuri Sadiq Ali (1922-1981), known as Nuri Shaways, and Engineer Ali Abdullah Emin to Sulaymaniyah to participate in the funeral ceremony of Latif Mahmud Said, who is also known as Sheikh Latif Hafid, the first deputy of the Kurdish Democratic Party. 

In the year 1973, he was an administrator of the Fifth Branch committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). On April 8, 1973, as a member of the Iraq-Soviet Friendship Society, he visited Moscow. On April 9, 1973, in Moscow, he participated in the first-anniversary celebration of the Iraq-Soviet Cooperation Treaty, and during his visit to the Soviet Republic of Uzbekistan, he thanked the officials for the hospitality shown to the comrades of Mustafa Barzani. In the beginning of the year 1974, for the second time, he joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces. In the year 1974, by order of the Revolutionary Command Council of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, all his and his family's assets and properties were confiscated by the Iraqi authorities, and along with a number of other families, his children and wife were expelled to the border of the liberated areas on April 28, 1974. On May 24, 1974, due to his joining the ranks of the September Revolution he was dismissed from his job by the Revolutionary Command Council. In the year 1974, he was responsible for the Fifth Branch committee.

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