Biography

Jafar Ibrahim Haji Piro, known as Jafar Eminki, the lawyer Kovan and Kovan, was born in the city of Duhok in the year 1954, completed his primary, intermediate, and secondary education in Duhok, obtained a Bachelor's degree in Law from the University of Baghdad in the year 1977, worked in law in the year 1979 in the city of Duhok, was arrested for a period by Mosul security in the year 1981, sought refuge for the first time in Sweden in the year 1982 and resided there until the year 1986, and in the year 1986 he returned to Syria and remained there for a year and a half, and struggled in the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic People's Party, sought refuge in Iran from the year 1987 until the year 1988, returned again to Sweden in the year 1988 until 1992, in the year 1992 he returned to Kurdistan, from the year 1992 until 1955 he held the position of Director General of the Diwan of the Kurdistan National Parliament in the city of Erbil, in the year 2007 he obtained a Master's degree in Political Science from the same university, he also obtained a Doctorate in Political Science from the same university, he is proficient in languages (Kurdish, Arabic, Swedish, English, and Persian).

Struggle Pages

He joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces of the Kurdistan Democratic People's Party (Parti Gel) in the year 1981, from the year 1981 until 1983 he was a Member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic People's Party, in the year 1988 he became an active member of the local committee in Sweden affiliated with the Sixth Branch Committee - Europe of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, he became a member of the office in the Central Office for Organizations of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in (1992-1993), in the year 1993 he was a Delegate to the Eleventh Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Unified in the city of Erbil, between the years (1993 -1994) he became a member of the office in the Central Office for Professional Organizations of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Unified, he published an article on Wednesday, 9 June 1993 in Khabat newspaper, the mouthpiece of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, in 20 January 1995 the contents of his house in Erbil were looted by gunmen of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and his family was expelled from the city, he was identified as an active member of the First Branch Committee - Duhok of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the year 1997 within the seventeenth team during the era of the responsibility of Ezadin Barwari, in the year 1999 he continued to serve in the First Branch - Duhok at the same rank within the eighteenth team during the era of the responsibility of Professor Muhammad Qadir Ahmed (1934-2019), known as Muhammad Mulla Qadir.

In the year 1999 he was elected by the Twelfth Congress as an Alternate Member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, in the year 2004 his rank was elevated to member of the Central Office of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, in the year 2004 he became responsible for the Central Office for Studies and the Academy of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, in the year 2005 he was chosen as responsible for the General Institution for Elections in the Kurdistan Democratic Party, which was established for the first time in the history of the Party, in the year 2005 he was appointed as a member of the Central Inspection and Oversight Body of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, in the year 2005 he supervised a delegation from the General Institution for Elections in the Kurdistan Democratic Party to the Republic of Turkey with the aim of learning about the institutions in that state, on Thursday, 16 December 2010 he was elected as a member of the Leadership Council of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Thirteenth Congress by 1500 delegates and was within the sequence 31 with 687 votes, in the year 2011 he was elected as a member of the Political Bureau in the first meeting of the Party's Leadership Council, in the year 2011 until 2017 he was responsible for the Central Organizations Office in the Kurdistan Democratic Party, in the year 2011 until 2017 he was an official spokesperson for the Kurdistan Democratic Party, in 2012 he was a lecturer on the subject of organization in the seventeenth session of the Institute for Training Cadres of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the city of Erbil, in the year 2013 he was a candidate for the Kurdistan Democratic Party for the Kurdistan National Parliament on the list (110) and within the second sequence, in 6 November 2013 he became a member of the Kurdistan National Parliament (Fourth Term), in 29 April 2014 he was elected as Deputy Speaker of the Kurdistan National Parliament by the deputies (Fourth Term). In 2015 until 2017 he was appointed as responsible for the Central Organizations Office, in the year 2017 he, as Deputy Speaker of the Parliament, activated the official sessions of the Parliament and managed them significantly due to the non-attendance of the Speaker of the Kurdistan National Parliament in them. On Monday, 4 March 2019 he attended the signing of the political agreement between the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in the city of Erbil, in the year 2022 he was elected as a member of the Central Committee in the Fourteenth Congress of the Party, and he was appointed as responsible for Public Relations of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the meeting of the Political Bureau of the Party. 

From his works:  

1- Lights on the Revolutionary Alternative - 1984, published under the name (Lawyer Kovan).

2- Political Participation of Youth in the Kurdistan Region and the Impact of Electoral Systems on Political Stability.

3- The Impact of Electoral Systems on Political Stability - 2014.

Sources:

  1. Archive of the Encyclopedia Authority of the Kurdistan Democratic Party

  2. Election of members of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iraq, Gulan Arabi Magazine, Gulan Institution for Culture and Media, Issue 41, Fourth Year, Erbil, 31 October 1999 AD, p. 15. 

  3. Election of a new Central Committee composed of 31 members and 9 alternate members, Khabat Newspaper, mouthpiece of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Issue 946, Erbil, Friday, 15 October 1999 AD, p. 15. 

  4. Barzan News publishes the names of the leadership members of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and their vote percentages, Barzan News Newspaper, Issue 193, Erbil, Sunday, 19 December 2010 AD, p. 4. 

  5. According to a poll, Jafar Eminki receives the most votes among the Party candidates in Parliament, Darož Magazine, Issue 14, September 2013 AD, pp. 3 - 5.

  6. The Party and the Union sign a political agreement for the next phase of Kurdistan, Khabat Newspaper, organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Issue 5707, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 AD, p. 1.

  7. Jafar Ibrahim, On the State and the Federal State, Khabat Newspaper, mouthpiece of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Issue 678, Wednesday, 9 June 1993 AD, p. 6.

  8. History of the Party's Cadre Sessions, from the mountain to the city, (Erbil - Center for Studies, Research and Academy of the Party - Rojhalat Printing House - 2019 AD), p. 148.

  9. Sha'ban Ali Sha'ban, Some Political and Historical Information, Third Edition, (Erbil - Rojhalat Printing House - 2013 AD), pp. 130, 134. 

  10. Ali Sinjari, The Kurdish Issue and the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in Iraq, Part Three, (Duhok - Khani Printing House - 2012 AD), p. 479.

  11. Omar Osman, The Life of a Kurd, Volume One, (Erbil - Haji Hashem Printing House - 2005 AD), p. 285. 

  12. Karwan Mahwi, The Congresses of Our Party, the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Shrove Magazine, Central Office of Studies and Research, Issue 14, Erbil, Haji Hashem Printing House, Autumn 2010 AD, p. 20.

  13. Kenar Abdullah, Women's Political Participation in Southern Kurdistan, (Sulaymaniyah - 2016 AD), p. 101.

  14. Branch Two, Branch Two in Half a Century of Struggle, (Erbil - Aras Printing House - 2010 AD), p. 34. 

  15. List of names and locations of families expelled from areas under the control of the Jalalis, Brayati Newspaper, Organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Unified, Issue 2146, Monday, 20 November 1995 AD, p. 29.

  16. Kurdistan Region - Iraq, Kurdistan Parliament - Iraq, Protocols of the Year (2014) of the Kurdistan Parliament - Iraq, Volume Ninety-Four, (Erbil - Kurdistan Parliament - Iraq - 2014 AD), pp. 7, 12, 34, 42.