Politician Kristov Yelda Torxan, known by the pseudonym (Rêbwar Yelda), joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in 1969 and joined the Kurdistan Peshmerga forces in 1974 with the beginning of the war between the Peshmerga forces of the September Revolution and the Iraqi army. He was elected as a member of the central committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party at the tenth congress in 1979 and as a member of the leadership council of the Kurdistan Democratic Party at the thirteenth congress in 2010, and became a member of the Political School at the first meeting of the leadership council.

Biography

Rebwar Yalda was born in 1952 in the city of Erbil, of Assyrian origin and Eastern Orthodox Christian faith. He is a graduate of the Erbil Teachers' Training Institute. He is fluent in Kurdish, Syriac, Arabic and Persian. He lived as a refugee in Iran in 1975 after the defeat of the September Revolution.

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Rebwar Yalda joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in 1969 and in 1974, at the beginning of the war between the Peshmerga forces of the September Revolution and the Iraqi army, he joined the Peshmerga forces of Kurdistan. In 1975, after the defeat of the September Revolution, he lived as a refugee in Iran. In 1980, he May Revolution He contacted the Peshmerga forces for the second time and in 1981 became a press writer and later head of the Kurdish section of the Kurdistan Democratic Party's press. In 1986, he was appointed Secretary of the Qutabi Union (students) and the Sons of Kurdistan Democrats.

He was elected as a member of the central committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party at the tenth congress in 1989, and as a member of the leadership council of the Kurdistan Democratic Party at the thirteenth congress in 2010, and became a member of the Political School at the first meeting of the leadership council.

In 2022, he was elected as a member of the central committee at the fourteenth congress and as a member of the political school of the Kurdistan Democratic Party at the first meeting of the leadership committee, and became the head of the Election Department.

In 1991, he participated in the uprising in Southern Kurdistan in the Erbil region with some members of the secretariat of the Qutbist Union and the Sons of Kurdistan Democrats. In the years (1992-1999), he was the founder and director of Kurdistan TV (KTV).

In 2004, he became the head of the central school of professional organizations and in 2017, he was appointed head of the organization school by the political school of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

In the fourteenth congress, he was elected as a member of the central committee and a member of the political school of the Kurdistan Democratic Party at the first meeting of the leadership committee in 2022. In 2023, he became the head of the PDP Elections section. and in 2024, he became the head of the Public Organizations section of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

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Archives of the Encyclopedia Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.