Reason

After the success of the coup of February 8, 1963, and the Ba'ath Party's seizure of power in Iraq, several rounds of negotiations were held between representatives of the revolutionary leadership and the new Iraqi government regarding the promises that the coup leaders had made to the revolutionary leadership before taking power, the last of which was a visit by the revolutionary delegation to Baghdad and both Egypt and Algeria.

In general, the negotiations did not yield any results. This time, the government tried to continue the talks by sending several official delegations to President Mustafa Barzani. For this purpose, the first delegation, headed by Tahir Yahya, Chief of Staff of the Army and Member of the Revolutionary Leadership Council, met with President Barzani in Chiwarqurn. President Barzani handed over the autonomy project and the demands of the revolution to the visiting delegation and threatened that if these demands were not met by the end of the spring, the war would start again. The project was presented to the Revolutionary Leadership Council and asked to reduce their demands. For this purpose and to change the attitude of the revolutionary leadership, another delegation returned to Chiwarqurn and met with President Mustafa Barzani there once again and reached an agreement on several points to resolve the problems. On March 11, 1963, the Revolutionary Leadership Council issued a statement in which the Kurdish question and its demands were unified.

There was nothing for the Kurds in the Revolutionary Leadership Council's statement, and the negotiations did not yield any good results. On this issue, President Mustafa Barzani saw the need to hold a consultation with the Political School and the national leaders on such a national issue and to hold a general congress. For this purpose, he sent his special envoys to every corner of Kurdistan to send their representatives to the congress. After the preparations were completed, on March 16, 1963, representatives of all social classes, nations and religions, including the leaders of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), the commanders of the Peshmerga units of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), and the leaders of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) were present. September Revolution and the leaders of the revolutionary tribes arrived in the city of Koy.

At the congress

The Congress was held from March 18 to 22, 1963, under the presidency of President Mustafa Barzani, under the auspices of the Peshmerga forces. September Revolution The congress was held in the house of Kake Kake Ziyad Agha Koy, with 2,500 participants, 200 of whom had the right to vote. The aim of the congress was to formulate Kurdish demands from the Iraqi government. As a result, a delegation was formed under the leadership of Jalal Talabani, consisting of Salih Yousfî, Masoud Muhammad, Hussein Khaneqa, Abdul Samad Muhammad Bena, Habib Muhammad Karim, Agîd Sadiq, Şakhawan Namiq, Babekir Rasûl, Mustafa Aziz and İhsan Şerzad. The delegation was sent to Baghdad in March 1963.

All negotiations were unsuccessful, the coup government in Baghdad was considering unification with the Republic of Egypt and the Republic of Syria, to become a unified Arab republic. In addition, the Kurdish delegation led by Jalal Talabani visited Cairo, the capital of the United Arab Republic, for the second time, along with an Iraqi government delegation, to seek the support of Gamal Abdel Nasser.

However, the negotiations were fruitless and in early June 1963, the Iraqi army resumed its unilateral and sudden war against Kurdistan. Some of the delegation fled their homes and others were arrested at Kirkuk airport on June 9, 1963, when they returned to Kurdistan.

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