Politician Mustafa Karim Xefur, known by the name Mustafa Hamamchi. In the year 1950, at the first Baghdad Conference he became a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdish Democratic Party. Later he left the party and was not prepared to implement the party's decisions and mandates. In 1953, during the organization of the third congress, he was requested by the congress management committee to participate in the congress, but he did not participate and, with Salih Rushdi, founded a new organization called the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iraq.

Biography

Mustafa Karim Xefur was born in 1924 in the city of Sulaymaniyah. In 1947, he was admitted to the sports department of the Primary Teachers' College in Baghdad. On February 14, 1993, he was martyred in the explosion of the warehouse and depot of the Iraqi Red Crescent Society in the city of Sulaymaniyah, which was carried out by the Kirkuk Security affiliated with the Ba'ath Party, and he was buried in the Sheikh Awla cemetery in the city of Sulaymaniyah. He was proficient in the Kurdish, Arabic, and English languages.

Work History

Mustafa Karim Xefur established contact with the ranks of the Brotherhood Society in 1939, and in 1941 he was an officer in the British Levy Army on the island of Cyprus. In 1946, he established contact with the ranks of the Kurdish Democratic Party, and in the year 1950, at the first Baghdad Conference he became a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdish Democratic Party, and in 1951 he became the manager of the secret printing press of the Kurdish Democratic Party. Later, he left the party and was not prepared to implement the party's decisions and mandates, nor to return the printing equipment he had in his possession to the party.

 

After leaving the ranks of the party, he began to reveal the party's secrets. In 1953, during the organization of the third congress, he was requested by the congress management committee to participate in the congress, but he did not participate and, with Salih Rushdi, founded a new organization called the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iraq, which was dissolved in the second half of 1952, and most of its members joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

 

On February 14, 1993, he was martyred in the explosion of the warehouse and depot of the Iraqi Red Crescent Society in the city of Sulaymaniyah, which was carried out by the Kirkuk Security affiliated with the Ba'ath Party, and he was buried in the Sheikh Awla cemetery in the city of Sulaymaniyah. He was proficient in the Kurdish, Arabic, and English languages.

References:

1- Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.

2- History of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, congresses and conferences (Program and internal regulations), Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board, first volume, (Erbil - Roksana Printing House - 2021).

3- Mahdi Muhammad Qadir, Political developments in Iraqi Kurdistan 1945 - 1958, (Sulaymaniyah - Kurdistan Strategic Research Center 2005).

4- Abdulxalid Sabir (Teacher Xalid), Genealogy of the Old Families of Sulaymaniyah between the years 1784 - 1914, Second edition, (Beirut - Green Glory Printing House 2010).

5- Abdulla Agirin, Amid Abdulrahim Wafiya, Sulaymaniyah Magazine, issue 129, third cycle, Sulaymaniyah, Diler Printing House, March 2012.

6- Izeddin Mustafa Rasul, A part of my memoirs (Yadashtekanim) first volume, (Sulaymaniyah - Serdem Printing and Publishing House - Hamdi Institution Printing House 2006).

7- Karim Zend, Xerman - Shara, (Sulaymaniyah - Ezmer Printing House 2003).

8- Masoud Barzani, Barzani and the Kurdish Liberation Movement 1931 - 1958, first volume, (Erbil - Ministry of Education Printing House 2004).