Officer, economist, and politician Muhammad Musa Sadiq, known as Muhammad Fayli, was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party by the conference representatives at the First Baghdad Conference in 1950. In 1953, he was a founding member of the Kurdistan Democratic Youth Union. In the same year, he was elected as a member of the administrative board at the First Congress of the Kurdistan Students Union. In 1953, he became the first secretary of the Kurdistan Democratic Youth Union. After the Mawet Conference and the split, he left the party. He passed away in Baghdad in 2007.

Biography

Muhammad Musa Sadiq was born in 1927 in Baghdad. He was from a Kurdish Fayli merchant family and was himself engaged in business. In 1953, he received a bachelor's degree from the College of Commerce and Economics at the University of Baghdad. He passed away in 2007 in the city of Baghdad and was buried in the Najaf cemetery. He was proficient in Kurdish, Arabic, and English.

Struggle Record

Muhammad Musa Sadiq joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in 1947 through Dr. Jafar Muhammad Karim (1910-2000). In 1950, at the First Conference in the city of Baghdad, he was elected by the conference representatives as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and after Dr. Jafar Fayli, he is considered the second Kurdish Fayli in the leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

He was a representative of the Second Congress 1951، Third 1953، Fourth 1959 and Fifth 1960 of the party. In 1953, he was a founding member of the Kurdistan Democratic Youth Union in Baghdad and became the first secretary of the Kurdistan Democratic Youth Union. In the same year, he was elected as a member of the administrative board at the First Congress of the Kurdistan Students Union.

In 1959, he participated in the Second Baghdad Conference of the Kurdistan United Democratic Party in the city of Baghdad and voted against the Hamza Abdullah faction to suspend them until the Fourth Congress of the party. In 1964, during the split within the Kurdistan Democratic Party, he ceased his party activities.

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