Biography
Ali Abdullah Reza, known as (Ali Askari and Shalaw), was born in the city of Sulaymaniyah in 1937. He is one of the sheikhs of the Naqshbandi order of Haqq, who are affiliated with the order of Mevlana Khalid Naqshbandi Sharazuri and whose roots reach back to Sheikh Isa Barzinji and is the nephew of Sheikh Abdulkarim Shadel (1893 - 1943) and uncle of Reza Shadel (1905 - 1961), who was a supporter and admirer of the First Barzan Revolution.
He graduated from the preparatory school. He married Sabiha Sheikh Jalal Sargelowi in 1959. In 1975, after the defeat of the September Revolution, he briefly fled to the Kingdom of Iran. On August 31, 1975, by order of the Iraqi Revolutionary Leadership Council, he was appointed as the administrator of the municipality of Refa'i district in southern Iraq. He knew Kurdish, Persian and Arabic.
Worksheet
Ali Askari became a member of the leadership of the Kurdistan Students' Union and the Kurdistan Democratic Youth Union in 1958. In 1958, he became the head of the Kirkuk organizations of the Kurdistan Students' Union. In 1959, he was elected by the congress delegates as a member of the Supervisory and High-Level Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iraq (Fourth Congress). On Saturday, December 8, 1960, he became one of the members of the founding committee of the open phase of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iraq. In 1960, he was elected by the congress delegates as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (Fifth Congress). In November 1960, he became a member of the Revolutionary Organization Committee and responsible for Kirkuk.
In 1961, he became the head of the First Branch Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and joined the revolution after the September Revolution began in the same year. In the early stages of the September Revolution, he worked in Badinan under the name Nehni Shalaw and as the second in command of the rebel forces of the September Revolution in the Badinan region. Later, he was transferred to Kirkuk Province by the Political School of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 1961, he participated in the broad meeting of the Security Council and voted for defense and revolution. In 1962, he was appointed commander of the Work Force by the leadership of the September Revolution. In 1964, he participated in the Mawet Conference and was therefore excluded from the Sixth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. Then, on July 6, 1965, after the issuance of a general amnesty order by Mustafa Barzani (1903 - 1979), the leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Revolutionary Leadership Council of Iraqi Kurdistan for supporters of the Political School wing, he returned from Hamedan in the Kingdom of Iran to the village of Haji Omaran in Erbil Province and met with President Mustafa Barzani. In 1965, he participated in the Battle of Mount Korek on the border of the Rewandiz district in Erbil Province against Iraqi army forces.
On August 28, 1966, he participated in the first meeting of the Ibrahim Ahmed – Jalal Talabani group in Timar (Germiyan). On December 28, 1966, he left the Raqqa Valley in the Sulaymaniyah Governorate with Jalal Talabani (1933 - 2017) and Omar Mustafa Mihemed Amin (1923 - 1992), known as Omar Debabe, and Hilmi Ali Sharif (1930 - 1998), and headed towards the Iraqi government's border and turned his back on the September Revolution. On October 15, 1970, together with Ibrahim Ahmed Fatah (1914 - 2000) and Omar Mustafa Muhammadeen (1923 - 1992), known as Omar Debabe, he met with President Mustafa Barzani at Barzani's headquarters in the village of Dilman and together they agreed to an apology. He settled in the town of Gelala in the Balekê region of Erbil Governorate until the defeat of the September Revolution.
On February 10, 1971, he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party for the second time. In 1973, he was appointed commander of the Hewler Plain Force by the leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In the years (1974 - 1975), he was a member of the Military School of the September Revolution. In mid-April 1975, he participated in the Urmia general meeting with the aim of continuing work and resistance. On April 24, 1975, he returned to Southern Kurdistan on the instructions of President Mustafa Barzani with the aim of preparing the situation for the revolution and was given material assistance and a contact code. On April 28, 1975, he returned to the city of Sulaymaniyah and on April 30, 1975, he was expelled to Baghdad by the director of Sulaymaniyah security. On August 23, 1976, he began negotiations and negotiations with the representative of the interim leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Hanjirlu cave. On October 10, 1976, he participated in the extensive meeting of the Kurdistan Socialist Movement in Sura Giley. On August 31, 1977, he participated in the first leadership meeting of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in Dola Koste, in the triangle of the international border (Iraq - Turkey - Iran) belonging to the Erbil Governorate, with the aim of distributing administrative posts and was elected as the commander of the Peshmerga force. In 1976, he was among the founders of the Kurdistan Socialist Movement. In 1976, he joined the ranks of the Peshmerga force. In 1976, there were armed activities against the Iraqi army in the Pishder region on the border of Sulaymaniyah Governorate. In the summer of 1976, he met with Dr. Kemal Kirkuki in the village of Xurkhure, located in the Sulaymaniyah Governorate, with the aim of coordinating with the forces of the interim leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In the fall of 1976, he met with Kemal Kirkuki in the mosque of the village of Gelala, located on the border of Sulaymaniyah Governorate, with the aim of coordinating forces. In 1977, he became a member of the Political School of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. In 1977, he was appointed as the commander of the Peshmerga force of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan.
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