Politician Rashid Arif Abdulrahman Osman, known as (Rashid Etrushi). In 1956, he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and in 1961, he joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces. In 1966, at the seventh congress, he was elected as the Head of the Supervisory and Appeals Committee. In 1970, at the eighth congress, he was elected as the First Member of the Central Committee of the KDP. In 1971, after the agreement of March 11, 1970, he became the Deputy Governor of Erbil in the Iraqi Government. In 1979, at the ninth congress, he became a Member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 1991, by the decision of the Kurdistan Front, he became the Governor of Kirkuk. He passed away on March 16, 2015 due to illness.

Biography

Rashid Arif Abdulrahman Osman was born in 1940 in the city of Duhok. He completed his post-secondary education in 1957 and was established as a teacher in the town of Sinjar, in the province of Mosul, in 1960. He was later dismissed from his job due to Kurdish activities and was established in Saylo, Mosul. He was dismissed again on July 27, 1963 and was imprisoned and tortured for four months. He was then sent to the city of Diwaniyah in Iraq and exiled. He was released in 1964. He passed away on March 16, 2015 due to illness in Sweden and was buried on March 23, 2015 in the city of Duhok. He was fluent in Kurdish, Arabic, Persian and Swedish.

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Rashid Arif Abdulrahman Osman contacted the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in 1956, and in 1961, he contacted the ranks of the Peshmerga forces of the September Revolution, and in 1963, he was a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party delegation for negotiations with the Iraqi Government.

On July 15, 1964, he was elected as the Head of the Mosul District Committee of the First District Committee and a year later he was promoted to the position of the Secretary of the District Committee. In 1966, he was a delegate to the Seventh Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the town of Galale, Erbil province, and was elected as the head of the Supervisory and Appeals Committee. In the same year, he became the Head of the Third District Committee. In 1970, at the Eighth Congress, he was elected as an Alternate Member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. On April 3, 1971, he was appointed Deputy Governor of Erbil and was removed from this position on May 11, 1971 by order of the Revolutionary Leadership Council.

On May 17, 1972, the Iraqi government attempted to assassinate him by planting three bombs at the Third Brigade Headquarters in Kirkuk, but he survived this attempt. In 1973, another assassination attempt was made by hired prisoners of the Kirkuk Intelligence Service, which was foiled by his arrest by the hired prisoners.

In 1973, he became the Head of the Organization Department at the Political School. In 1974, he became the Head of the Seventh Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. After the defeat of the September Revolution in 1975, he emigrated to Iran and settled in the city of Karaj. In 1977, with the aim of cooperating with the temporary leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and supervising the 150,000 refugees from Southern Kurdistan in Iran, he participated in the Karaj general meeting under the supervision of Idris Barzani (1944 - 1987).

In 1979, he was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party at the ninth congress of the KDP. He participated in the uprising in Southern Kurdistan and participated in the liberation of the city of Kirkuk with the Kurdistan Front forces on March 20, 1991. On March 24, 1991, he was appointed Governor of Kirkuk by the Kurdistan Front.

On August 16, 1996, for his service in the September Revolution and May Revolution and the uprising in Southern Kurdistan, on the 50th anniversary of the KDP's golden anniversary by President Masoud Barzani He has received the Barzani Medal of Honor. He was a representative of the 12th Congress (1999) and the 13th Congress (2010) of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

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