The officer, economist and politician Muhammad Musa Sadiq, known as (Muhammad Fayli), was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdish Democratic Party by the delegates of the conference at the first Baghdad conference in 1950. In 1953, he was a member of the Founding Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Youth Union. In the same year, he was elected as a member of the Executive Committee at the first congress of the Kurdistan Qutb (Student) Union. In 1953, he became the first Secretary of the Kurdistan Democratic Youth Union. After the Mawet conference, he left the party. He passed away in Baghdad in 2007.
Biography
Muhammad Musa Sadiq was born in Baghdad in 1927. He came from a family of Kurdish merchants from the Fayli tribe and was himself involved in business. He received his bachelor's degree from the College of Commerce and Economics of Baghdad University in 1953. He passed away in Baghdad in 2007 and was buried in the Najaf cemetery. He was fluent in Kurdish, Arabic and English.
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Muhammad Musa Sadiq came into contact with the ranks of the Kurdish Democratic Party in 1947 through Dr. Jafar Muhammad Karim (1910 - 2000). In 1950, at the first conference in Baghdad, he was elected a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdish Democratic Party by the conference delegates, and is considered the second Kurdish Fayli in the leadership of the Kurdish Democratic Party after Dr. Jafar Fayli.
He was a representative of the second congress in 1951, the third in 1953, the fourth in 1959 and the fifth in 1960 of the KDP. In 1953, he was a member of the Founding Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Lawyers Union in Baghdad and became the first Secretary of the Kurdistan Democratic Lawyers Union. In the same year, he was elected as a member of the Executive Committee at the first congress of the Kurdistan Students' Union.
In 1959, he attended the second Baghdad conference of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Baghdad and voted against Hamza Abdullah's decision to dissolve the party until the fourth congress of the KDP. In 1964, he left the party due to divisions within the Kurdistan Democratic Party.
Source:
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