Mustafa Muhammad Abdulrahman Hussein Agha, has been known by the names (Mustafa Qeredaxi, Mustafa Heme Agha Abdulrahman Agha, Salar, Salar Mustafa Qeredaxi, Miche, and Abu Chifne). He is a writer and politician, who in the Year 1962, at the request of President Mustafa Barzani, joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces. In the Year 1963, during the September Revolution, he became the deputy commander of the first battalion at Cham-i Rezan. In the Year 1964, at the sixth congress, he became a member of the central committee and the political bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and was appointed by President Mustafa Barzani. In the Year 1964, he became a member of the revolution leadership council and the first secretary of that council. During the Year 1966, all his ranks were stripped from him by the central committee. At the seventh congress, he was removed from the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. He passed away on April 8, 2004, in the city of Washington.

Biography

Mustafa Muhammad Abdulrahman Hussein Agha, has been known by the names Mustafa Qeredaxi, Mustafa Heme Agha Abdulrahman Agha, Salar, Salar Mustafa Qeredaxi, Miche, and Abu Chifne. He was born in the year 1921 in the city of Sulaymaniyah. He is descended from the Shewekel Agha family of Sulaymaniyah, who later moved to the city of Qalacholan, the capital of the Baban Emirate, and later the authority of the Qeredax region was granted to them by the Baban Emirs, and they are known by his name. His father and uncles participated in the revolution of Sheikh Mahmud Hafid (1884 - 1956) against the army of the United Kingdom. In the Year 1943, he completed the preparatory stage in the city of Sulaymaniyah. In the Year 1944, he was appointed as a contract employee at the Sulaymaniyah Agriculture Department. In the Year 1945, he was admitted to the law department of the College of Law in Baghdad, but he soon left it. In the Year 1946, he headed to the city of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, for the purpose of study. In the Year 1947, he headed to the United States of America for the purpose of study.

 

In the Year 1951, he received a master's degree in the economics department of Brooklyn University in San Francisco (State of California) in the United States of America. In the Year 1952, he received a master's degree in sociology from the University of San Francisco (State of California) in the United States of America. On May 5, 1955, he was appointed as a preparatory stage teacher by a Royal decree. On August 10 to 16, 1956, he participated in the first congress of the Kurdish Students Society in Europe (K.S.S.E) in the city of Wiesbaden in the Federal Republic of Germany. In the Year 1956, he left the United States of America and returned to the homeland. In the Year 1956, he was appointed as a lecturer at the Baghdad Commercial Preparatory School. In the Year 1957, he was an English language teacher at the Sulaymaniyah Preparatory School. In the Year 1958, under the name Salar, he published the book (How did language originate?) and the play Awat under the name Salar Mustafa Qeredaxi. On January 16, 1959, he was elected as a member of the general board of the Serkeftin Club in the city of Baghdad.

 

In the Year 1959, he was appointed as First Secretary and Director of the Foreign Relations Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Iraq. In the Year 1959, he became a member of the editorial board of Newroz magazine. In the Year 1960, two of his works were published in the city of Baghdad under the title (Some scientific theories and princesses) under the name Miche. In the Year 1960, he began working as a second secretary at the embassy of the Republic of Iraq in the country of Laos. In the Year 1961, he was the Consul of the Republic of Iraq in the city of Prague, the capital of the Czechoslovak Republic. In the Year 1962, he was the first secretary of the embassy of the Republic of Iraq in Laos. In the Year 1962, he was the first secretary of the embassy of the Republic of Iraq in Nigeria.

 

He passed away on April 8, 2004, in the city of Washington, and later his body was transferred to the Kurdistan Region and, according to his will, he was buried on April 16, 2004, in Girdi Gomezi in the Qeredax region of Sulaymaniyah Governorate. He was proficient in the Kurdish, Arabic, and English languages.

Work History

Mustafa Qeredaxi joined the ranks of the Jiyaneweya Kurd society in the Year 1945. In the Year 1946, he joined the ranks of the Kurdish Democratic Party. In the Year 1960, he was a representative at the fifth congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In the Year 1953, he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Youth Union and the Kurdistan Students Union. In the Year 1962, at the request of President Mustafa Barzani, he joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces. In the Year 1962, he brought a radio station for the September Revolution via Iran. In the Year 1963, during the September Revolution, he became the deputy commander of the first battalion at Cham-i Rezan. He was known by the Iraqi army as (Abu Chifne). In the Year 1963, he met with David Adamson, a journalist for the British newspaper Sandy Telegraph. In the Year 1963, he was a member of the Kurdish delegation that visited Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918 - 1970), the President of Egypt. In the Year 1964, at the sixth congress, he became a member of the central committee and the political bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and was appointed by President Mustafa Barzani. In the Year 1964, he became a member of the revolution leadership council in Iraqi Kurdistan. In the Year 1964, he was the first Secretary of the Revolution Leadership Council in Iraqi Kurdistan, and in the same year, he became a member of the constitutional committee affiliated with the executive office (al-maktab al-tanfidhi), and in the Year 1965, he was the Secretary of the executive office of the revolution leadership council in Iraqi Kurdistan.

 

In the Year 1965, in Bawakhoshin in Darbandikhan, which belongs to the Sulaymaniyah governorate, he was mistakenly and severely wounded by the Peshmerga of the Iraqi Communist Party. During the year 1966, all his ranks were stripped from him by the central committee and he was removed from the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and the future of his political work was placed before the seventh congress. In the year 1967, he began working as the Head of Observers at the Ministry of Trade of the Republic of Iraq. In the year 1970, he returned to service with the rank of (Qaem Bala'mal) at the Iraqi embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia. On November 1, 1972, he was appointed with the rank of Minister Plenipotentiary (Wezîr Mifuz) at the Iraqi embassy in Jakarta. In the year 1972, he was appointed as the Iraqi ambassador to Paris, but his order was revoked shortly after. In the year 1973, he resided as a refugee in the Republic of Romania. In the years (1975 - 1976), an attempt was made to assassinate him by the Intelligence Agency of the Iraqi Government, and he managed to escape. In the year 1978, he headed to the United States of America. In the year 1989, he became one of the founders of the Kurdish human rights organization in the United States of America.

 

His works:

1- How language originated - 1958.

2 - Awat - 1958.

3 - Mir Kichan - 1960 (Translation).

4 - Some scientific theories - 1960.

5 - Kurdistan Times 1990.

Sources:

1 - Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.