Biography

Ali Abdullah Reza, also known as Ali Askari and Shalaw, was born in Sulaymaniyah in 1937. He is one of the sheikhs of the Naqshbandi Haqqa order of Mevlana Khalid Naqshbandi of Sharazur, and their lineage goes back to Sheikh Isa Barzanji, and is the nephew of Sheikh Abdulkarim Shadele (1893-1943) and Mame Reza Shadele (1905-1961), who are admirers of the The First Barzan Revolution.

He graduated from high school and married Sabiha Sheikh Celal Sargalo in 1959. In 1975, after the collapse of the September Revolution, went to Iran for a short time, and was appointed as the administrator of the municipality of Refa'i district in southern Iraq by order of the Iraqi Revolutionary Leadership Council on August 31, 1975. He was fluent in Kurdish, Persian, and Arabic.

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In 1958, Ali Askari was a member of the leadership of the Kurdistan Students' Union and the Kurdistan Democratic Boys' Union. In 1958, he was in charge of the Kirkuk organizations of the Kurdistan Students' Union. In 1959, he was elected by the congress delegates as a member of the Supreme Committee for the Promotion and Supervision of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iraq at the Fourth Congress. On Saturday, December 8, 1960, he was one of the founding members 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 (KDP) at the Fifth Congress. In November 1960, he was a member of the Revolutionary Organization Committee and responsible for Kirkuk.

In 1961, he was appointed as the head of the first league committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and in the same year, after the start of the September Revolution joins the revolution, at the beginning September Revolution in Behdinan under the pseudonym Shalaw and the second-in-command of the rebel forces September Revolution was in the Behdinan region, then transferred to Kirkuk province by the Political School of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). In 1961, he participated in a large meeting of the Ewdalan and voted for defense and revolution. In 1962, he was elected by the leadership of the September Revolution He was appointed commander of the Labor Force in 1964, and participated in Mawet ConferenceHe was expelled from the sixth congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party for this reason. On July 6, 1965, after Mustafa Barzani (1903-1979), the President of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Revolutionary Leadership Council in Iraqi Kurdistan, issued a general amnesty for the followers of the Political School wing in Hamadan, Iran. He returned to the village of Haji Omaran in Erbil province and met President Mustafa Barzani. In 1965, he participated in the Battle of Mount Korek in the Ruwandiz district of Erbil province against the Iraqi army.

On August 28, 1966, he attended the first meeting of the Ibrahim Ahmed-Jalal Talabani group in Timar (Germiyan). On December 28, 1966, he joined Jalal Talabani (1933-2017), Omar Mustafa Muhammad Amin (1923-1992), who was known as Omar Debabe Hilmi Ali Sharif (1930-1998) moved from Dolaraq in Sulaymaniyah province and moved to areas under the control of the Iraqi government and turned his back on September Revolution, on October 15, 1970, together with Ibrahim Ahmed Fatah (1914-2000) and Omar Mustafa Muhammad Ameen (1923-1992), who was named Omar Debabe It is known that he met with President Mustafa Barzani at Barzani's headquarters in the village of Dilman and was pardoned together, and remained there until the fall of September Revolution He lived in the village of Gelale in the Balekê region of Erbil province.

On February 10, 1971, he rejoined the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) for the second time. In 1973, he was appointed commander of the Erbil Plain force by the leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). In 1974-1975, he was a member of the Military School of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). September Revolution He participated in the Urmia broad meeting in mid-April 1975 to continue the struggle and resistance. On April 24, 1975, at the suggestion of President Mustafa Barzani, he returned to Southern Kurdistan to prepare the situation for the revolution. He was provided with financial assistance and contact codes. On April 28, 1975, he returned to Sulaymaniyah and on April 30, 1975, he was deported to Baghdad by the Sulaymaniyah Security Director.

On August 23, 1976, he began negotiations with the representative of the interim leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in the Hanjirlu Cave. On October 10, 1976, he participated in the extensive meeting of the Kurdistan Socialist Movement in Sore Gil. On August 31, 1977, he participated in the first leadership meeting of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) in Dole Coste, at the triangle of international borders (Iraq, Turkey and Iran) in Erbil province, with the aim of distributing posts and was elected as the commander of the Peshmerga forces. In 1976, he was one of the founders of the Kurdistan Socialist Movement. In 1976, he joined the ranks of the Peshmerga Forces. In 1976, he participated in armed actions against the Iraqi army in the Pishdar region of Sulaymaniyah province. In the summer of 1976, he was in the village of Khurkhura, Sulaymaniyah province, with the aim of coordination with the forces of the interim leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) had a meeting with Dr. Kemal Kirkuki, in the fall of 1976 he met with Kemal Kirkuki in the mosque of the village of Gelale in the Sulaymaniyah province to coordinate forces, in 1977 he became a member of the Political School of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), in 1977 he was appointed as the commander of the Peshmerga forces of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan.

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