Reasons for holding the conference
According to the division into stages of organizational work (Kurdistan Qutb Union), 1964 is also seen as the beginning of the organization's clandestine phase, which began in 1961. From that year until 1970, the organization faced a more difficult situation, called the separation phase. During this phase, two organizations with the same name (Kurdistan Qutb Union) in educational centers were trying to attract students to their ranks, competing fiercely for this purpose (1).
Before discussing each stage of the work of the Kurdistan Qutb Union, it is necessary to look at the situation of the Kurdistan Democratic Party at that stage, in order to clarify the events in our organization, especially since the Student Union was one of the most important and influential organs and pillars of the party, and internal and external events in the party had a direct impact on the organization.
After the February 10, 1964 agreement between the revolution and the government, the political school of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), which wanted to separate Sulaymaniyah from the KDP and the revolution, split from the Kurdistan Democratic Party in protest against that agreement and were called (Jalalî) in contemporary Kurdish historical literature (2).
Attempts at this split date back to the end of 1963, but it became more visible in the party in February 1964. The fourth congress of the Qutbist Union of Kurdistan was the embodiment of this split in the party, as this group of the Political School tried to establish a secretariat for the organization without inviting the Bahdin members of the organization, as most of the members of the Qutbist Union Secretariat were elected from the Sulaymaniyah region (3).
On June 8, 1964, this Secretariat issued a statement against President Mustafa Barzani and the Kurdistan Democratic Party entitled "Our Position Towards Mullah Mustafa Barzani and the Kurdistan Democratic Party" (4).
On August 19, 1964, the Preparatory Committee of the Qutb Union of Kurdistan in Sulaymaniyah responded to this statement and reiterated its support for President Mustafa Barzani, the revolution, and the Kurdistan Democratic Party (5).
Conference organization and decisions
Since the splinter group of the Political School consisted of a minority of the party, and its leadership was within the Qutbist Union, which was fully supportive of the group, it lacked the ability and authority to manage the organization's affairs, so it was decided to hold a conference of the organization as soon as possible(6).
As a result of the dissatisfaction of the centers of the Qutbist Union of Kurdistan organization, implementationthose loneliness of the Secretariat of the Fourth Congress and the exclusion of the Qutbists from the Behdinan area from the Fourth Congress, especially since the leadership represented a part of the Sulaymaniyah province, not the whole of Kurdistan. Therefore, in early August 1964, six months after the Fourth Congress, the Qutbist representatives held their second conference openly in the liberated areas of Sulaymaniyah province in the village of Kanî Masî. At the conference, a new leadership committee was elected to pave the way for the Fifth Congress.
The new secretariat, also known as the preparatory committee, was elected as follows:
1- Bakr Hussein- Sulaimani Organization
2- Jalal Hame Ali- Sulaimani Organization
3- Adnan Haji Musa – Baghdad Organization
4- Hawêz Dizeyî. Baghdad Organization
5- Abdulwahab Talabani, Kirkuk Organization
6- Jawad Muhammad Sherwani - Hewler Organization
7- Abdulkarim Findi- Duhok Organization(7).
Thus, all organizations, unlike the leadership of the Fourth Congress, had their own representatives in this leadership.
Source:
- Majid Hesen Ali, The Kurdish Student Movement in Iraq (1926-1970), Master's Thesis/Salahaddin University in Hewlêr 2008, Spirez Publishing House, (Hewlêr- Hacî Hashim Press), pp. 46, 51.
- Irfan Aziz Aziz, Congresses and Conferences of the Kurdistan Qutb Union, Edition 1, (Hewlêr-Rojhelat Publishing House-2012), p 43; Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Committee, History of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Congresses and Conferences (Program and Internal Regulations), Volume 1, First Edition, (Hewlêr-Rojhelat Publishing House-2021), p 178.
- Irfan Aziz Aziz, same source, p. 43-44.
- Shazin Harish, Democratic and Professional Organizations in Some Historical Documents, 1958-1968, 2nd edition, (Sulaymaniyah, Raz Press, 2001), pp. 73,75.
- Same source, pp. 81 – 82.
- Sasan Ewnî, The Qutbist Union of Kurdistan: Some Aspects of Struggle and History, (Hewlêr, Ministry of Education Press, 1998), p 24.
- Majid Hesen Ali, same source, p. 150; Irfan Aziz Aziz, same source, p. 44.
