Politician Azad Mihemed Nejib Mihemed Selim, known by the names (Azad Barwari and Saeed). In 1961, he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Qutabi (Students) Union and in 1964, he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. He was elected as a member of the central committee at the ninth congress in 1979, as a member of the central committee at the tenth congress in 1989, as a member of the central committee and then as a member of the political school at the eleventh congress in 1993 and the twelfth in 1999, and as a member of the leadership council and then as a member of the political school of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in 2010 and at the thirteenth congress. In 2009, he became the Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Kurdistan Regional Government in the sixth cabinet and is a holder of the Barzani medal.

Biography

In 1945, his family migrated to Eastern Kurdistan after the defeat of the second Barzan Revolution. Azad Barwari was born in 1946 in the city of Mahabad. In 1947, after the defeat of the Democratic Republic of Kurdistan, he returned to Southern Kurdistan with his family. He completed his preparatory school in the city of Erbil. In 1966, he was accepted into the chemistry department of the College of Science at the University of Mosul and was expelled by Iraqi government officials for Basra University in southern Iraq due to political activities. He received his bachelor's degree from Basra University in 1972. In 2009, he became Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Kurdistan Regional Government in the sixth cabinet. He is fluent in Kurdish, Arabic, Persian, English and German.

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Azad Barwari joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Students' Union in 1961 and the Kurdistan Democratic Party in 1964. He was imprisoned in the Ramadi prison in western Iraq in 1968 and released in 1970 after the March 11 agreement between the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Iraqi government. In 1972, he joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces of the September Revolution and lived as a refugee in Iran in 1975 after the defeat of the September Revolution.

In 1975, he was entrusted by Masoud Barzani with the preparations for the May Revolution, and in the same year, he was invited by President Masoud Barzani, along with four other figures, to participate in the first meeting of the interim leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party with the aim of continuing the defense and resistance.

In 1976, he was elected as a member of the central committee of the interim leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party at the Berlin conference. In 1977, he participated in the international meeting of the interim leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, which worked to organize the Peshmerga forces and reactivate the organizations. In 1979, he became a member of the board of the interim leadership organization of the Kurdistan Democratic Party among the refugees from Southern Kurdistan in Iran.

He was elected as a member of the central committee at the ninth congress in 1979, as a member of the central committee at the tenth congress in 1989, as a member of the central committee and then as a member of the political school at the eleventh congress in 1993 and twelfth congress in 1999, and as a member of the leadership council and then as a member of the political school of the Kurdistan Democratic Party at the thirteenth congress in 2010. In 2022, he was elected as a member of the central committee at the fourteenth congress and as a member of the political school of the Kurdistan Democratic Party at the first meeting of the leadership committee.

During his work in the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, he has held several positions and responsibilities. Such as the head of the third and fourth branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in 1980, the head of the Kurdistan Democratic Party's communications school in Syria in 1981, the head of the Kurdistan Democratic Party's regional and national relations in 1993, the head of the political school and the head of the organization's central school in 1996, the head of the Kurdistan Democratic Party's central communication school in 2001, etc.

In 2009, he became Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Kurdistan Regional Government in the sixth cabinet. In 2010, he was awarded the Barzani Medal of the Immortal by President Masoud Barzani for his service in the September Revolution, the May Revolution, and the Southern Kurdistan uprising and sovereignty phase.

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Archives of the Encyclopedia Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.