Biography

Abdullah Ismail Ahmed, who is also known by the names Abdullah Mela Ismail, Mela Ewlay Haji Smail, and Mela Mator was born in the city of Erbil in 1927, was an employee of the railway administration in 1950, founded the Railway Workers' Union and the Construction Union in the city of Erbil in 1954, was stationed in the city of Erbil in 1974 as a guard for an Iraqi government force to control the city of Erbil, was Minister of State (Iraq) from 1974-1988, was appointed as acting Minister of Communications by a republican decree on February 12, 1977, was appointed as acting Minister of Irrigation by a republican decree on May 7, 1977, his name was on the terror list of the Martyr Helo Suri Blood Organization of the Marxist-Leninist Committee in 1977, was awarded the officer's medal by the President of Mali in 1981, was retired by the Iraqi government in 1989, passed away on Saturday, April 22, 2000, in the city of Erbil, and was fluent in Kurdish and Arabic.

Work History

He joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in 1949, was a cadre within the Kurdistan Democratic Party in 1950, was appointed as a member of the Erbil district committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party – Iraq in 1954, was imprisoned for a short time by the authorities of the Kingdom of Iraq in 1954, was appointed as the head of the Erbil district committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party – Iraq in 1955, supervised the Mosul organizations of the Kurdistan Democratic Party – Iraq in 1956, and on October 15, 1956, he went with a representative of the Iraqi Communist Party to visit the Egyptian embassy and submitted a record of the demonstrations of the people of Erbil against the tripartite aggression of the United Kingdom, the French Republic, and Israel against the Republic of Egypt.

In 1956, he was part of the second staff of the first branch committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party – Iraq, was arrested and tortured in Kirkuk prison in 1956 due to his Kurdish activities, and although a 200 dinar bail was requested for him, he remained in prison until the beginning of 1958, was appointed as the deputy head of the third branch committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party – Iraq in 1959, was a member of the Preparatory Committee for the Fourth Congress in Baghdad in 1959, in 1959, during the uprising of Sheikh Rashid Lulan in the Sidekan area of Erbil province, he commanded several volunteers of the Kurdistan Democratic Party – Iraq in Erbil and participated in the fighting, and on June 30, 1959, he delivered the message of the second conference of the United Kurdistan Democratic Party in Baghdad regarding the expulsion to the faction of lawyer Hamza Abdullah Omar (1915-1998).

In 1959, at the fourth congress, he was elected by the congress delegates as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party – Iraq, on May 1, 1959, on International Workers' Day, he delivered a speech to the public on behalf of the United Kurdistan Democratic Party in Erbil, in 1959, during the tension in Kirkuk, with the support of the British consulate and their Turkish allies, he was the head of the third branch committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party – Iraq and was against any conflict in Kirkuk, on Saturday, 08.12.1960, he was a member of the founding committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party for the phase of open activity, in 1960 he was a member of the conference committee of the fifth congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) for a part of the Garmian region, in 1960 he was elected by the congress delegates as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) at the fifth congress, in November 1960 he was a member of the Revolutionary Organizations Committee and the head of the Badinan branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, in 1961, along with the revolution against the regime of Brigadier General Abdul Karim Qasim (1914-1963), the Prime Minister of Iraq, he was appointed to supervise the organizations of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in Mosul province, in 1961 he joined the ranks of the Peshmerga Forces and was sent by the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) as the first KDP commander for the Badinan region of Mosul province and divided the Peshmerga forces into three wings, on August 20, 1961, with the help of lawyer Shamsaddin Muhammad Osman (1933-2012), who is also known as Shamsaddin Mufti, he and a group of Peshmerga attacked the base of the mercenaries in the village of Espindare in Erbil and made many gains in weapons and ammunition, on November 1, 1961, he was the commander of the attack on the ground force of the Iraqi army in Balisan in Erbil province, in 1961 he participated in the broad meeting of Ewdalan and was with the protection and the revolution and was appointed as a Brigade Commander in the Erbil plain, on January 1, 1962, he was appointed by the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party as the commander of the first branch force of Erbil, and from December 18 to 23, 1961, he participated in the meeting of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in the village of Ewdalan (Sulaymaniyah) and voted in favor of continuing the September Revolution in May 1962, he participated in the Battle of Balisan Mountain in Sulaymaniyah province against the Iraq army, in 1963 he was sent by the leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party to distribute aid to the Peshmerga and organize the Peshmerga forces for the second branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), in 1964 he participated in the great meeting of Mawat and spoke against President Mustafa Barzani, in 1964 he was expelled from the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) for supporting the Political Bureau faction in the 6th congress, in 1964 when his friends took refuge in Hamadan in the Kingdom of Iran, he was hiding in Erbil, on August 28, 1966, he participated in the first meeting of the Ibrahim Ahmad-Jalal Talabani group in Timar (Garmian), on March 22, 1967, in the village of Kelar of Kirkuk province, he was elected as a member of the central committee within the Ibrahim Ahmad and Jalal Talabani group, on December 14, 1967, near the Republic Hospital of Erbil, he was shot at in an ambush by a group of Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) Peshmerga, but he survived, on December 27, 1970, in the final meeting of the Ibrahim Ahmad - Jalal Talabani group, where the decision to dissolve the group and approve joining the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) was made, he did not join the ranks of the KDP, in 1970 after the March 11 agreement in Kalar, he oversaw the arming of the forces of the Ibrahim Ahmad-Jalal Talabani group.

His works:

  1. The Story of My Political Life - Volume 1 – 1990.

References:

  1. Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.

  2. Chris Kuchera, Kurdish National Movement, translation by Ebrahim Younesi, second edition, (Tehran, Nigah Publishing, 1998), p. 376.

  3. Shuwan Mohammed Amin Taha Khoshnaw, Erbil between the years 1958 and 1963, a study on the political situation, (Erbil - Rojhelat Printing House - 2012), pp. 89-90, 94-95, 100, 160, 173, 176, 203, 258, 262, 268, 277.

  4. Shuwan Mohammed Amin Taha Khoshnaw, Erbil between the years 1963-1970, a historical study on the political situation, (Erbil - Salahaddin University Printing House - 2016), pp. 32-33, 37, 250-251.

  5. Abdulfattah Ali Al-Butani, Research and Investigation in Kurdish History and Contemporary Iraq, (Erbil – Spirez Publishing - Haji Hashim Printing House - 2007), p. 382.

  6. Tofiq Mela Sadiq, Memoirs of Party Days, Peshmerga and Departure, 2nd Edition, (Erbil, Shahab Printing House, 1996), pp. 27, 104.

  7. Ahmed Dilzar, Memoirs of My Life Days, (Erbil – Ministry of Culture and Youth – Shahab Printing House – 2019), p. 221.

  8. Biwar Nuredin, Kurds and Kurdistan Bibliography and index in Kurdish books, volume 2, (Tehran Printing House, 2016), p. 132.

  9. Talib Moryasi, Searching for the Truth, Volume 1, (Erbil, 2004), pp. 116, 132.

  10. Habib Mohammed Karim, History of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iraq (Main Stages) 1946-1993, (Duhok, Xebat Printing House, 1998), pp. 61, 68, 91.

  11. Khurshid Shere, Struggle and Blood Memoirs of the Years of Peshmerga Struggle, third edition, (Erbil - Haji Hashim Printing House - 2015), p. 120.

  12. Masoud Barzani, Barzani and the Kurdish Liberation Movement, Third Volume, (Erbil - Ministry of Education Printing House - 2002), p. 144.

Nuri Shawis, from my memoirs, (No Place - Publications of the Kurdistan Democratic People's Party - 1985), p. 82.