Reasons for holding the conference

After the situation in Iraq changed, relations between the Kurdish leadership and the Iraqi President Abdulkarim Qasim deteriorated, and on September 11, 1961, it was decided to launch the September National Revolution against state oppression. With the start of the revolution, party and organizational work once again took a clandestine form and activities continued in secret. The Iraqi government began to hunt down and arrest members of the KDP, and these arrests also included members of the Qutabi Union of Kurdistan, especially those who had studied at universities in Baghdad and southern Iraq. During this period, a large number of members of the Qutabi Union of Kurdistan, from the leadership of the organization down, joined the revolution and headed for the mountains of Kurdistan (1).

Conference Organization:

As a result of the arrest and martyrdom of some of its leaders and members, in March 1962, the Qutbist Union of Kurdistan held a secret conference in Baghdad to reorganize itself and assess the situation imposed on the organization and made several decisions.* Some of the decisions of this conference included supporting September Revolution and focusing on the professional and scientific problems of Kurdish students. At this conference, Heyder Hamze continued his struggle as secretary within the ranks of the Kurdistan Qutabi Union, and the conference delegates elected the new secretariat as follows:

1- Lord Kake Heme

2- Mamoon Debakh

3- Ahmed Shahrif Lek

4- Heyder Hamze

5- Fuad Mullah Mahmud

6- Adil Nasser

7- Tayyib Jabar Barwari

8- Hikmet Khanaqini (2).

The most important decisions of the conference were to support the Kurdish revolution and its leader and to provide what they could to the Peshmerga forces. To organize new students into the ranks of the revolution. To give importance to the participation of Kurdish students in professional and academic organizations(3).

Source

1. Irfan Aziz Aziz, Congresses and Conferences of the Qutabi Union of Kurdistan, Edition 1, (Hewlêr-Rojhelat Publishing House-2012), p 35.

• * There are different opinions about the location of the conference, several sources state that the conference was held in a part of Kurdistan, but the location has not been stated or confirmed. Majid Hesen Ali, The Kurdish Student Movement in Iraq (1926-1970), Master's Thesis/Salahaddin University in Hewlêr 2008, Spirez Publishing House, (Hewlêrê - Hacî Hashem Press), p 146.

1. Ehmed Şerîf Lek, Interpretation of Historical Events, A Few Pages of a Nation's History, vol. 1, First Edition, (Hewlêr-Rojhelat Publishing House-2016), p. 105.
2. Sasan Ewnî, The Qutbist Union of Kurdistan: Some Aspects of Struggle and History, (Hewlêr, Ministry of Education Press, 1998), p. Majid Hesen Ali, previous source, p. 146.