Jurist and politician Abdulkarim Sultan Abdullah, known by the names (Kerim Shingali, Hesen, Hesen Shingali). In 1968, he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 1976, he became a member of the provisional leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party at the Berlin conference. In 1979, he became a member of the preparatory committee of the ninth congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Eastern Kurdistan. In 1993, he was elected a member of the central committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - United at the 11th congress. In the years (1993 - 1994), he was the Director of Public Security of the Kurdistan Regional Government. In 1999 and at the 12th congress, he was elected a member of the central committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 2001, 2006, 2009, 2012 and 2014 and was elected as the Minister of Interior of the Kurdistan Regional Government in the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth cabinets. In 2010, he was elected as a member of the leadership council and then the political school of the Kurdistan Democratic Party at the thirteenth congress. After the establishment of the ninth cabinet of the Kurdistan Regional Government, he was appointed as an advisor to the Presidency of the Kurdistan Region.

Biography

Abdulkarim Sultan Abdullah was born in 1950 in Mosul. In 1971, he received his bachelor's degree in law from the College of Law and Politics of Baghdad University. He practiced law in Baghdad from 1971 to 1973. In 1975, after the defeat of the September Revolution, he emigrated to Iran and became a member of the supervisory board of Southern Kurdistan immigrants in Iran, and in 1976, he lived in Europe as a refugee.

He was elected as the Minister of Interior of the Kurdistan Regional Government in the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth cabinets in 2001, 2006, 2009, 2012 and 2014, and after the establishment of the ninth cabinet of the Kurdistan Regional Government, he was appointed as an advisor to the Presidency of the Kurdistan Region. He is fluent in Kurdish, Arabic, Persian and English.

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Abdulkarim Sultan Abdullah joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Qutb Union in 1967 and the Kurdistan Democratic Party in 1968. In 1969, he became a district member of the Baghdad district committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party's Fifth District Committee. In March 1973, he joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces.

In April 1975, by Masoud Barzani for preparation May Revolution distributed and at the end of the same month by Masoud Barzani He has been invited along with four other individuals to participate in the first meeting of the interim leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party outside the town of Nakhede in Eastern Kurdistan with the aim of continuing the resistance and defense.

In 1975, after being exposed by the Iranian SAWAK (National Intelligence and Security Agency), he illegally reached Northern Kurdistan, accompanied by lawyer Jawher Namiq Salim (1946 - 2011), and from there went to Southern Kurdistan.

In 1976, he became a member of the provisional leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party at the Berlin conference. In the same year, he joined the Peshmerga forces of the provisional leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Southern Kurdistan through the route of Northern Kurdistan and with the cooperation of the Northern Kurds, especially the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Turkey. In 1977, he participated in the ranks of the Peshmerga forces under the pseudonyms Hesen and Hesen Şingali. May Revolution He has served as the Deputy Head of Region One of the interim leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

He left the party in 1979 and joined the ranks of the Kurdistan People's Democratic Party in 1981. In 1990, after his return to the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, he was appointed a member of the central organization board of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and in 1991 he was transferred to the School of the President of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In March 1992, he was appointed a member of the high election board of the Kurdistan National Council by the Kurdistan Front, representing the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

He was elected as a member of the central committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - United at the 11th congress in 1993 and the 12th congress in 1999. He served as the Director of Public Security of the Kurdistan Regional Government (1993-1994). In 2010, at the 13th congress, he was elected as a member of the leadership council and became a member of the political school of the Kurdistan Democratic Party at the first meeting of the leadership council.

Source:

1- Archives of the Encyclopedia Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

2- Habib Muhammad Karim, History of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan in Iraq (with reference to the leadership) 1946 - 1993 (Dihok - Xebat Press 1998).

3- Sha'ban Ali Sha'ban, some political and historical information, third edition, (Hewlêr - Rojhilat Press 2013).