Biography

Salih Abdullah Najmedin Taha was born in Duhok. His great-grandfather was one of the sheikhs of the Naqshbandi order of Mawlana Khalid Naqshbandi (1779 - 1827) in the town of Zakho, which was part of the Mosul Province. Salih Yusifi completed his secondary education in Baghdad in 1938. At the same time, he began writing poetry in Kurdish and the Upper Kurmanji dialect. In 1939, he was accepted into the College of the House of Science in Baghdad. He was one of the contributors to the Kurdish-language magazine Hawar, which was published in Damascus. He began writing poetry in 1941. In 1942, he graduated with honors from the House of Science (Dar al-Ulum) in Baghdad in the Department of Sharia. In 1942, he was appointed as a teacher at the Harir Primary School, under the Erbil Education Department. In 1943, he was appointed as a writer for the Mosul court. In 1947, he was imprisoned for his political stance and exiled to the city of Hilla in central Iraq for two years. He was later pardoned and returned to Kurdistan. In 1949, he began working as the first writer for the Sinjar court, under the Mosul Governorate. In 1952, he was arrested again by the authorities of the Iraqi Empire for political activities. In 1954, he was transferred to the Zakho court. He was fluent in Kurdish and Arabic.

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Salih Abdullah Najmedin Taha was one of the founders of the Brusk Association in Mosul in 1939. He later joined the ranks of the Kurdish Hiwa Party and was initially active in Baghdad in spreading national sentiments. In 1943, he left the Kurdish Hiwa Party and began to establish the Youth of the Country Association. In 1945, he joined the ranks of the Kurdish Liberation Party. In the years (1943 - 1945), he supported the Second Barzani Revolution. In 1945, the letters and proposals of the Kurdish Hiwa Party were delivered to President Mustafa Barzani (1903 - 1979). In 1946, he was elected by the congress delegates as a member of the Central Executive Committee (Central Committee) of the Kurdish Democratic Party at the first congress and was responsible for the Mosul Regional Committee of the Kurdish Democratic Party that same year. In 1957, he was a member of the Zakho Regional Committee of the United Democratic Party of Kurdistan. From February 1, 1957 to September 5, 1959, he was in charge of the Zakho Regional Committee under the First Branch Committee of the United Democratic Party of Kurdistan.

In 1959, after the Second Baghdad Conference and the neutralization of the wing of lawyer Hamza Abdullah Umar (1915 - 1998), he was elected as the head of the Zakho Regional Committee under the First Branch Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iraq. In 1959, he supervised the signing of a register of 602 individuals from Zakho requesting Kurdish education in the Kurdish areas of the Mosul Governorate, which was submitted to the Ministry of Knowledge (Education and Teaching) of the Republic of Iraq. On March 8, 1959, he led a march in Zakho against the rebellion of Abdulwahab Shawaf (1916 - 1959) and helped gather armed forces from supporters of the United Democratic Party of Kurdistan to attack Mosul, which was the center of this rebellion. In 1959, he was under the supervision of the Iraqi Army's intelligence. In 1960, he was in charge of the First Branch Committee. In 1960, he was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party by the congress delegates at the Fifth Congress. In 1960, after the conclusion of the Fifth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, he was appointed as the head of the First Branch Committee. On October 15, 1960, he was the first member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party's management to be arrested in Mosul, Baghdad and Nasiriyah by the government of Abdulkarim Qasim (1914 - 1963). In 1961, he was exiled to Nasiriyah in southern Iraq. In 1962, he was released from Mosul prison. In 1962, after his release, his arrest warrant was issued and he went into hiding. In the years (1962 - 1963), he was in charge of the Fifth Branch Committee.

In 1963, he discussed with Ali Salih al-Saadi (1928 - 1977), Secretary General of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, the coup of February 8, 1963 against Fariq Rukin Abdulkarim Qasim, Prime Minister of Iraq. In exchange for recognizing the right to autonomy for Kurdistan, the Kurdistan Democratic Party leadership would support and cooperate with them. He ordered the Kurdistan Students' Union to join the strike of students affiliated with the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party at Baghdad University against the rule of Abdulkarim Qasim. On February 8, 1963, during the coup, he issued a statement of support on the Baghdad Radio Station, which was in the hands of the coup plotters, under the name of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. At the end of February 1963, he joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces. In 1963, he was a delegate to the General Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. On February 18, 1963, he was the deputy head of the Kurdistan Democratic Party delegation for negotiations with the Iraqi government. On June 9, 1963, upon his return to Southern Kurdistan, he was arrested by the Iraqi government at Kirkuk Airport and severely tortured. In 1963, he was imprisoned in Hilla prison in central Iraq and later in Baghdad central prison.

He was released from prison in 1964. In 1964, he was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party by the congress delegates in his absence at the Sixth Congress. In 1964, he was a member of the Revolutionary Management Council in Iraqi Kurdistan. On April 3, 1965, he was appointed as the head of the Kurdistan Democratic Party's communications department. In 1965, he was the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Xebat, the organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 1966, he was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party by the congress delegates at the Seventh Congress. In 1966, he was the head of the Fifth Branch Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In October 1966, he was appointed as a member of the Political School of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. On June 22, 1966, he was a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party delegation that met with the Iraqi government, which led to the announcement of the June 29 Declaration by Dr. Abdulrahman Bezazi (1914 - 1973), Prime Minister of Iraq. In 1966, he was appointed head of the Kurdistan Democratic Party's Media School. On April 2, 1967, he was a member of a Kurdistan Democratic Party delegation that met with Lieutenant General Abdulrahman Muhammad Arif (1916 - 2007) at the Republican Palace in Baghdad, with the aim of discussing the implementation of the provisions of the June 1966 Agreement for the autonomy of Kurdistan by the Iraqi government.

On April 15, 1967, as a member of the Political School of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, he was a representative of the Military-Political Conference of Kani Simaq (Hewler). On Saturday, April 29, 1967, he was the editor-in-chief of the Arabic newspaper El Teexhi. On Wednesday, January 18, 1967, he met with Lieutenant General Rukin Abdulrahman Muhammad Arif (1916 - 2007) at the Green Palace in Baghdad with a delegation of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and the subject of discussion was the June Agreement. In May 1967, he was the owner of the newspaper Birayeti, which was the Kurdish supplement to the Arabic newspaper El Teexhi in Baghdad. On January 10, 1970, he was a member of a nine-member delegation of the Kurdistan Democratic Party to negotiate autonomy for Southern Kurdistan with the authorities of the Arab Socialist Baath Party in Baghdad. On March 21, 1970, he read the speech of the Political School of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Khuld Hall in Baghdad. On March 29, 1970, he was appointed Minister of State in the cabinet of Ahmed Hassan Bekir (1914 - 1982) by republican decree. On March 29, 1970, he attended the Newroz celebration of Sadri Qanat in Baghdad.

In 1970, he was the vice president of the Iraqi-Soviet Friendship Association. On May 16, 1970, he was appointed acting Minister of Justice by a republican decree. On Friday, June 12, 1970, by order of President Mustafa Barzani (1903 - 1979), he became a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party delegation to visit Najaf in western Iraq, in order to attend the funeral of Grand Ayatollah Abdulmuhsin Hakim (1889 - 1970), the great scholar of the world's Shiites. In 1970, he was a teacher of the People's Revolution course in the third round of the Kurdistan Democratic Party's Cadres Training School. On July 27, 1970, he was appointed acting Minister of Northern Affairs in the Iraqi government by a republican decree. In 1970, he was elected as a member of the Central Committee by the congress delegates at the Eighth Congress and then as a member of the Political School of the Kurdistan Democratic Party at the first meeting of the Central Committee. In 1970, he was appointed as the head of the Fifth Branch Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. On Sunday, August 16, 1970, in Baghdad, he delivered the speech of the Fifth Branch Committee to those present at the celebration of the twenty-fourth anniversary of the founding of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In September 1970, he attended the funeral ceremony of President Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918 - 1970) in Cairo. On October 22, 1970, at the Kurdish Cultural Association Conference in Baghdad, he received the highest number of votes with 169 votes from the delegates and was elected as the chairman by the executive board on October 30, 1970. He was a member of the Supreme Committee of the Iraqi Peacemakers. On October 9, 1970, he was appointed as the acting Minister of Education and Training in the Iraqi government. In the years (1970 - 1974), he was the vice president of the Friendship Association of the Republic of Iraq - the Soviet Union. In the years (1970 - 1974), he was the editor-in-chief of the magazine Roji Kurdistan.

In 1970, he was a member of the seven-member Peace Committee between the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Arab Socialist Baath Party. On February 17, 1971, he was appointed as the acting Minister of Labor and Social Affairs in the Iraqi government. On May 8, 1971, he was appointed as the acting Minister of Roads and Housing in the Iraqi government. On Tuesday, June 22, 1971, he received Saddam Hussein (1937 - 2006), known as Saddam Tikriti, the Vice President of Iraq, at the headquarters of the Fifth Branch Committee in Baghdad. On July 14, 1971, he attended the opening of the Second Congress of the Kurdish Writers' Union in Erbil as a representative of Ahmed Hassan Bakr (1914 - 1982), President of the Republic of Iraq. On July 17, he was elected to the executive board by the representatives of the Second Congress of the Kurdish Writers' Union. In 1971, he was the editor-in-chief of the Kurdish-Arabic magazine Shams Kurdistan, published in Baghdad. On Tuesday, June 22, 1971, he received a delegation from the Soviet Communist Party at the headquarters of the Fifth Branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Baghdad.

On July 14-17, 1971, he was elected to the executive board and then to the president by the representatives of the Second Congress of the Kurdish Writers' Union in Erbil. On October 11-14, 1972, as a Minister of State of the Iraqi government and a member of the Political School of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, he participated in the Petrol as a Check meeting organized by the (National Peace and Solidarity Council) in Baghdad. On January 3, 1972, as a representative of Ahmed Hassan Bakr (1914 - 1982), President of the Republic of Iraq, he participated in the opening of the First Kurdish Poetry Festival in Kirkuk. On February 6, 1972, by order of the Revolutionary Administrative Council of Iraq, he was appointed as a member of the Education Planning Council. On February 6, 1972, he was appointed as the acting Minister of Roads and Housing in the Iraqi government by a republican decree. In mid-1972, he was the editor-in-chief of the magazine Estere, a supplement to the magazine Roji Kurdistan in the field of children. On July 2, 1972, he was appointed as the acting Minister of Finance in the Iraqi government by a republican decree. On July 11, 1972, he was appointed as the acting Minister of Agriculture in the Iraqi government by a republican decree. On September 11, 1972, he supervised the delegation of the Republic of Iraq to the regional meeting of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Kuwait. On October 1, 1972, he was appointed as the acting Minister of Northern Affairs in the Iraqi government by a republican decree. On October 18, 1972, he was elected as president by the executive board of the Kurdish Writers' Union. On February 5, 1973, he attended the Fourth Congress of the Kurdistan Teachers' Union in Erbil as a representative of Ahmed Hassan Bakr (1914 - 1982), the President of Iraq. In April 1973, he was a member of the National Council for Peace and Cooperation in the Republic of Iraq. On Tuesday, June 12, 1973, he was appointed as the acting Minister of Health in the Iraqi government. In mid-June 1973, he was elected as the head of the Kurdistan Region's Preparatory Committee for all mass organizations of the Kurdistan Democratic Party that wanted to participate in the Tenth World Congress of Youth and Students in East Berlin. On July 8, 1973, he was appointed as the acting Minister of Municipalities in the Iraqi government by republican decree. In mid-October 1973, he supervised the Party delegation to Moscow and met with Boris Yonumaryov, a candidate member of the Political School of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and the topics of discussion were the problems between the Democratic Party of Kurdistan and the Arab Socialist Baath Party and the Communist Party of Iraq. On October 31, 1973, he was a delegate to the Congress of the Forces for Peace and Cooperation in Moscow and a member of the Indo-Chinese Committee and the Middle East Committee.

In 1973, he was awarded the Lenin Medal for Peace by the Soviet authorities. On October 17, 1973, he was appointed by a republican decree as the acting Minister of Transport in the Iraqi government. In 1974, after his election, he was elected as a member of the executive board by the representatives of the Fourth Congress of the Kurdish Writers' Union and was elected as its president at the first meeting of the executive board on January 14, 1974. In 1974, he was the editor-in-chief of the Kurdish Writer magazine. On February 26, 1974, he was appointed by a republican decree as the acting Minister of Roads and Housing in the Iraqi government. In 1974, after the issuance of the Law on the Legislative Council and the Executive Council of the Kurdistan Region, he was appointed as the Minister of Justice and Islamic Endowments. On March 12, 1974, due to the failure to implement the March 11 Agreement, he submitted his resignation to Ahmed Hassan Bakr (1914 - 1982), President of the Republic of Iraq, and resigned from the ministerial position and went to the liberated areas of the September Revolution. On April 7, 1974, he was dismissed from the position of Minister of State in the cabinet of Ahmed Hassan Bakr by republican order. On April 28, 1974, after the seizure of his house by the Iraqi government, his family was deported to the liberated areas. In 1975, after the defeat of the September Revolution, he returned to Southern Kurdistan and was exiled to Baghdad. In 1976, he was among the founding members of the Kurdistan Socialist Movement. In 1978, he officially boycotted the Congress of the Kurdish Writers' Union, which was organized under the auspices of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party. He was arrested by the Baghdad General Security in October 1978. In 1979, at the Goreshër Saray Unification Conference, he was elected as the Secretary of the United Socialist Party of Kurdistan by the conference delegates without his presence. On June 25, 1981, he was martyred with a letter bomb in Baghdad by the Iraqi intelligence service (Iraqi Intelligence Service) headed by Barzan Tikrit and buried in the Zakho cemetery. On July 1, 1981, the news of his martyrdom was broadcast on Radio Dengê Kurdistan, the Radio of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan. On July 2, 1981, President Masoud Barzani's condolences were broadcast on Radio Dengê Kurdistan in Iraq. In 1993, he was named an immortal martyr in the resolutions of the Yazdemin Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - United.

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85 - Rizgar Nuri Shawes, We secretly published Xebat in Baghdad after it was stopped, Xebat Newspaper, Organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party – United, No. 922, Hewlêr, Friday, April 30, 1999, p. 8.

86 - Comrade Ali Sincari speaks about his memories and views in the Kurdish liberation movement during the 30 years of struggle, El-Şuel Newspaper, Organ of the Democratic Union of Kurdistan – Iraq, Issue 5, Mid-February 1984, p. 2.

87 - The President of the Kurdish Culture Association expresses his condolences for the martyrdom of comrade Mihemed Silêman and his friends, Teexî Newspaper, No. 791, Baghdad, Dar El-Cahiz Press, Sunday, July 25, 1971, p. 1.

88 - Zozan Salih El - Yusuf, Thoughts from My Memory, (Turkey – Kalkan Press – 2018), pp. 107, 133, 239, 266, 268, 283, 549, 565, 572.

89 - Zozan Salih El - Yusifî, Pages from the Life of the Fighter Salih El - Yusifî on the Anniversary of His Martyrdom, Teexî Newspaper, Dar El-Teexî for Printing and Publishing, No. 4508, Third Round, Baghdad, Sunday, 26 June 2005, p. 4.

90 - Ministers and Governors Resign, Bulletin This is the Voice of Iraqi Kurdistan, General Secretariat of Communication, Culture and Youth, Publications Directorate of the Communication Directorate, 1974, pp. 12 – 13.

91 - Sami Şoriş, Types of Kurds in Iraq, (Hewlêr – Dar Aras Press for Printing and Publishing – Ministry of Education Press – 2000), p. 13.

92 - Samî Şorîş, Kurdistan and the Kurds, Second Edition, (Hewlêr – Rojhilat Press – 2019), p. 125.

93 - Sami Faraj, History Will Hold Us to Account, Part One, Number 460, Year Two, Baghdad, Dar Al-Zeman Press, Thursday, February 2, 1967, p. 3.

94 - Greetings from the Party on its twenty-fourth anniversary, Teexhi Newspaper, No. 518, Baghdad, Dar El-Jahiz Printing House, Saturday, August 22, 1970, p. 5.

95 - Salam Abdulkarim, Political Life in Southern Kurdistan 1975 – 1991, (Sulaymaniyah – Çarçıra Publishing House – 2011), pp. 43, 83.

96 - Seyda Salih Yusif was the rider of the path of Kurdishness and the revival of peace and democracy, Brotherhood Newspaper, Organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party – United, Issue 1976, Hewlêr, Saturday, 25 June 1994, p. 8.

97 - Mr. Barzani expresses his demands to the German delegation, Teexhi Newspaper, No. 1067, Baghdad, Times Press, Thursday, June 22, 1972, p. 1.

98 - Mr. Barzani sends a delegation to participate in the condolence ceremony for the soul of Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Muhsin Al-Hakim, Teexhi Newspaper, No. 461, Baghdad, Dar Al-Jahiz Printing House, Saturday, June 13, 1970, p. 5.

99 - Mr. President welcomes Idris Barzani, Al-Arab Newspaper, Number 744, Fourth Year, Baghdad, Thursday, January 19, 1967, p. 1.

100 - Seyid Ali Mojani, Solmaz Sedqi, Ilahi Nimeti, ..., Dictionary of Contemporary Iraqi Men and Families, (Tehran – Azam Publishing House – 1392 AH), pages 647 – 648.

101 - Poets of Kurdistan, Teexhi Newspaper, No. 864, Baghdad, Dar El-Cahiz Printing House, Monday, October 18, 1971, page 8.

102 - Shekib Aqrawî, Years of Persecution in Kurdistan: The Most Important Political and Military Events in Kurdistan and Iraq from 1958 to 1980, Second Edition, (Hewlêr – Minare Press – 2007), pages 155, 157, 303.

103 - Shekib Aqrawi, Saddam Hussein: The Rise and Fall, (Hewlêr – Hacî Hashim Publishing House – 2009), page 381.

104 - Shaban Ali Shaban, Some Political and Historical Knowledge, Third Edition, (Hewlêr – Rojhilat Press – 2013), page 117.

105 - Martyr Seyda Salih Yusifî, Xebat Newspaper, Organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Issue 632, Hewlêr, Sunday, August 16, 1992, page 5.

106 - Martyr of the Struggle Salih El-Yusifi on his anniversary, Xebat Newspaper, Organ of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan, No. 680, Hewlêr, Wednesday, June 23, 1993, page 13.

107 - Sheikh Musa Wermeli, The September Revolution in the Zakho Region, (Dihok – Law College Press – 2000), page 16.

108 - Subhi Abdulhamid, Iraq in the Years 1960 – 1969, (Damascus – Dar Babel for Research and Communication – 2009), page 61.

109 - Salah El-Din Muhammad Saidullah, Steps and Journey of the Years 1930 – 2007, Part One, (Hewlêr – Hivî Publishing House – 2009), page 60.

110 - Salah El-Din Muhammad Saidullah, Steps and Journey of the Years 1930 – 2007, Part Two, (Hewlêr – Hivî Publishing House – 2009), pages 80 – 81.

111 - Tariq Cambaz, The Hope Party in the Erbil Brigade, (Erbil – Legality Magazine – Ministry of Agriculture Press – 2005), pages 95 – 96.

112 - Adil Mella Salih, A Concept from the Political, Diplomatic and Cultural Life of Seyda Salih Yusifî, (Sulaymaniyah – Karox Press – 2011), pages 7, 8, 11, 12, 55 – 56, 57.

113 - Abdulrezaq Mezring, Salih Yusifî in the field of the immortals, Al-Ittihad Newspaper, the Central Newspaper of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Number 426, Ninth Year, Sulaymaniyah, Friday, June 22, 2001, page 1.

114 - Abdulsalam Ali, Pages from the Struggle of Martyr Salih Al-Yusifi, (Unpublished – Supreme Committee of the Kurdistan Front – 1992), pages 8, 13, 30, 37.

115 - Abdulfatah Ali Al-Butaani, Badinan Region 1925 – 1970: A Study of Political Facts and Developments, Part One, (Hewlêr – Kurdish Academy – 2017), page 478.

116 - Abdulfatah Ali El-Botanî, Badinan Region 1925 – 1970: A Study on Political Facts and Developments, Part Two, (Hewlêr – Kurdish Academy – 2017), pages 457, 459.

117 - Abdulwahab Abdulrahim Hemund, From the Activities of the Association, Shams Kurdistan Magazine, Number Sixteen, Year Three, Baghdad, Al-Zeman Press, February 1974, page 37.

118 - Ismet Sherif Wanli, Iraqi Kurdistan: National Identity (A Study on the 1961 Revolution), Translated by Suad Mihemed Xidir, (Sulaymaniyah – Saziya Jîn – Şivan Press – 2012), pages 316, 328.

119 - Umer Osman, The Life of a Kurd, Volume One, (Hewlêr – Hacî Hashim Press – 2005), page 57.

120 - İzedin Mustafa Rasul, Part of My Memories, Volume One, (Sulaymaniyah – Serdem Printing and Publishing House – Hamdi Publishing House – 2006), pages 218 – 219.

121 - Fazil Karîm Ehmed, Set out on the road with big dreams, Volume One, (Sulaymaniyah – Tehran Press – 2019), pages 40, 42.

122 - Fayez Al-Khafaji, Political Bullets in Iraq, Part Two, (Baghdad – Dar Qanadil for Publishing and Distribution – 2018), pages 54 – 55, 59 – 100, 234 – 240.

123 - The Fifth Branch of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan holds a party, Teexhi Newspaper, Issue 1285, Baghdad, Times Press, Sunday, March 18, 1973, page 5.

124 - The Fifth Branch and Kurdistan Organizations Celebrate Martyrs' Day, Teexhi Newspaper, Issue 1364, Baghdad, Times Press, Thursday, June 21, 1973, page 4.

125 - The Fifth Branch celebrates the quarter-century anniversary of the founding of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan, Teexhi Newspaper, Issue 811, Baghdad, Dar El-Cahiz Printing House, Tuesday, August 17, 1971, page 1.

126 - Farhad Ewnî, On another page of the Great September Revolution, Gulan El-Arabi Magazine, Issue 28, Hewlêr, Ministry of Culture Press, September 22, 1998, page 39.

127 - Farhad Ewnî, How did the situation in Kurdistan in the spring of 1974 lead to the renewal of war?, Gulan Al-Arabi Magazine, Gulan Media Agency, Issue 28, Hewlêr, 25 September 1998, page 40.

128 - Farid Es-Asard, Encyclopedia of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Volume One, Third Edition, (Sulaymaniyah – Academy of Awareness and Training of Cadres – Hamdi Press – 2016), pages 584 – 586.

129 - Fuad Sediq, Political Debate, (Hewlêr – Ministry of Culture – General Directorate of Printing and Publishing – Rewşenbîrî Printing House – 2006), pages 149, 150 – 151.

130 - Decision of the Revolutionary Leadership Council No. 192, Al-Waqayy Al-Iraqiyye Newspaper, Ministry of Information in Iraq, No. 2003 A, Baghdad, Wednesday, May 26, 1971, page 5.

131 - Decision of the Revolutionary Leadership Council No. 55, Al-Waqayy Al-Iraqiyye Newspaper, Ministry of Information in Iraq, No. 2099 A, Baghdad, Monday, February 21, 1972, page 2.

132 - Decision of the Revolutionary Leadership Council No. 85, Al-Waqayy Al-Iraqiyye Newspaper, Ministry of Information in Iraq, No. 1973 A, Baghdad, Saturday, March 13, 1971, page 7.

133 - Kerîm Shareza, Activist, Writer and Journalist Salih El-Yûsifî 1918 – 1981, Xebat Newspaper, Organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party – United, Issue 907, Hewlêr, Friday, January 8, 1999, page 11.

134 - Karim Shareza, Minister of the Kurdistan Revolution Nafiz Celal Hewazi, Brotherhood Newspaper, Organ of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan – United, Issue 1989, Hewlêr, Sunday, July 19, 1994, page 3.

135 - Fifth Congress of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan, Roji Nu Magazine, Number Three, Year One, Sulaymaniyah, June 1960, page 56.

136 - Fourth Congress of the Kurdistan Teachers' Union - Iraq, Dengî Mamosta Magazine, Organ of the Sulaymaniyah Branch of the Kurdistan Teachers' Union, Issue 8, Second Year, Sulaymaniyah, Raperîn Printing House, February 1973, page 55.

137 - Second Congress of the Kurdish Writers' Union, Hewler Magazine, Hewler Municipality, Issue 2, Year 2, Hewler, Kurdistan Printing House, September 1971, pages 39, 41.

138 - Kurdistan Region Preparatory Committee for the World Festival of Youth and Students, Teexhi Newspaper, No. 1359, Baghdad, Times Printing House, Friday, June 15, 1973, page 2.

139 - Meeting between the delegation of the Lebanese Communist Party and the delegation of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan, Teexhi Newspaper, Baghdad, Times Press, Issue 1321, Tuesday, May 1, 1973, page 4.

140 - A friendly meeting between the delegations of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Teexhi Newspaper, No. 1489, Baghdad, Times Press, Sunday, November 18, 1973, page 1.

141 - Website of the First Branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party: www.pdk-leqa1.com

142 - Shams Kurdistan Magazine, Number One, Baghdad, Al-Zeman Press, 1971, page 1.

143 - Mihemed El - Bedri, Opening of the Fourth Congress of the Second Round of the Kurdistan Teachers' Union, Teexhi Newspaper, No. 1252, Baghdad, Times Printing House, Tuesday, February 6, 1973, page 4.

144 - Mihemed Shakeli, A ray of sunshine from the struggle of the rulers, Kurdistanî Nû Newspaper, Organ of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Number 660, Third Year, Hewlêr, Thursday, April 14, 1994, page 6.

145 - Mihemed Amir Dershevî, The Religious-Political Structure in Kurdistan, (Hewlêr – Hîvî Press – 2016), page 316.

146 - Mahmud El-Durre, The Kurdish Case and Arab Nationalism in the Iraq War, (Beirut – Dar El-Telî’e Publications – 1963), page 181.

147 - Muhammad Ali Ismail, My Memories: Seventy Years of Age and More than Half a Century of Struggle, (No Place – 2019), page 132.

148 - Mihemed Mela Qadir, Workbook: A Brief History of the Barzani Party and Culture, Second Edition, (Hewlêr – Aras Printing and Publishing House – 2007), pages 20, 45, 55, 65, 68.

149 - Republican Decree No. 180, Al-Waqayy Al-Iraqiyye Newspaper, Ministry of Information in Iraq, No. 1867, Year Twelfth, Baghdad, Tuesday, April 14, 1970, page 11.

150 - Republican Decree No. 183, Al-Waqayy Al-Iraqiyye Newspaper, Ministry of Information in Iraq, No. 1867, Twelfth Year, Baghdad, Tuesday, April 14, 1970, page 12.

151 - Republican Decree No. 233, Al-Waqayy Al-Iraqiyye Newspaper, Ministry of Information in Iraq, No. 2256, Fifteenth Year, Baghdad, Tuesday, June 19, 1973, page 3.

152 - Republican Decree No. 246, Al-Waqayy Al-Iraqiyye Newspaper, Ministry of Information in Iraq, No. 2155 A, Baghdad, Monday, June 19, 1972, page 6.

153 - Republican Decree No. 278, Al-Waqayy Al-Iraqiyye Newspaper, Ministry of Culture and Information in Iraq, No. 1887, Year Twelfth, Baghdad, Monday, June 8, 1970, page 1.

154 - Republican Decree No. 278, Al-Waqayy Al-Iraqiyye Newspaper, Ministry of Culture and Information in Iraq, No. 1887, Year Twelfth, Baghdad, Monday, June 8, 1970, page 1.

155 - Republican Decree No. 280, Al-Waqayy Al-Iraqiyye Newspaper, Ministry of Information in Iraq, No. 2261, Fifteenth Year, Baghdad, Wednesday, July 11, 1973, page 9.

156 - Republican Decree No. 286, Al-Waqayy Al-Iraqiyye Newspaper, Ministry of Information in Iraq, No. 2161, Baghdad, Monday, July 10, 1972, page 5.

157 - Republican Decree No. 305, Al-Waqayy Al-Iraqiyye Newspaper, Ministry of Information in Iraq, No. 2164, Baghdad, Saturday, July 22, 1972, page 9.

158 - Republican Decree No. 424, Al-Waqayy Al-Iraqiyye Newspaper, Ministry of Culture and Communication in Iraq, No. 1913 A, Baghdad, Wednesday, August 26, 1970, page 16.

159 - Republican Decree No. 437, Al-Waqayy Al-Iraqiyye Newspaper, Ministry of Information in Iraq, No. 2297, Sixteenth Year, Baghdad, Tuesday, November 20, 1973, page 8.

160 - Republican Decree No. 477, Al-Waqayy Al-Iraqiyye Newspaper, Ministry of Information in Iraq, No. 2198, Fifteenth Year, Baghdad, Monday, November 13, 1972, page 3.

161 - Republican Decree No. 487, Al-Waqayy Al-Iraqiyye Newspaper, Ministry of Information in Iraq, No. 2308, Fifteenth Year, Baghdad, Saturday, December 29, 1973, page 7.

162 - Republican Decree No. 630, Al-Waqayy Al-Iraqiyye Newspaper, Ministry of Information in Iraq, No. 1945, Baghdad, Tuesday, December 15, 1970, page 5.

163 - Republican Decree No. 650, Al-Waqayy Al-Iraqiyye Newspaper, Ministry of Information in Iraq, No. 1945, Baghdad, Tuesday, December 15, 1970, page 7.

164 - Republican Decree No. 79, Al-Waqayy Al-Iraqiyye Newspaper, Ministry of Information in Baghdad, No. 2326, Sixteenth Year, Baghdad, Saturday, March 9, 1974, page 7.

165 - Masoud Barzani, Barzani and the Kurdish Liberation Movement, Volume Three, (Hewlêr – Ministry of Education Press – 2002), pages 188, 217, 253.

166 - Muslih Abdulqadir, A former member of the Party speaks for Brotherhood, Brotherhood Newspaper, Organ of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan – United, Issue 2022, Hewlêr, Friday, 19 August 1994, pages 4, 7.

167 - Mullah Mustafa Barzani and his friends present the news of the establishment of the Party to the Minister of the Interior, Xebat Newspaper (Al-Nidal), No. 141, Al-Reey Al-Am Printing House, Baghdad, Sunday, January 9, 1960, pages 1, 8.

168 - Mehmûd Osman, The Revolution of Kurdistan, (Unknown Location – Kurdistan Democratic Party – Political School – 1970), page 112.

169 - Great festivals to celebrate the Newroz holiday, Teexî Newspaper, Teexî Supplement, No. 1289, Baghdad, Times Printing House, Saturday, March 24, 1973, page 8.

170 - Mullah Faruq Şiwanî, All Kurds, Volume One, (Hewlêr – Rewşenbîrî Press – 1997), pages 70, 90, 117.

171 - Second Congress of the Kurdish Union, Shams Kurdistan Magazine, No. 3 and 4, Baghdad, Dar El-Selam Printing House, August and September 1971, page 31.

172 - Muhsin Osman, Seyda Salih Yusifî: Intellectual, Diplomat and Politician, (Hewlêr – Hivî Press – 2012), pages 2, 4.

173 - Results of the Elections of the New Executive Board of the Kurdish Culture Association, Teexî Newspaper, No. 572, Baghdad, Dar El-Cahiz Printing House, Saturday, October 24, 1970, page 5.

174 - Najm El-Din El-Yusifi, The Great September Revolution, (Duhok – First Branch of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan – United – Law College Press – 1995), pages 20, 26, 32.

175 - Nuri Shawes, From My Memories, (Nowhere – Publications of the Democratic People's Party of Kurdistan – 1985), pages 22, 81.

176 - On behalf of the President, Professor El-Yusifi opened the Third Congress of the Kurdish Writers' Union, Teexhi Newspaper, No. 1189, Baghdad, Times Press, Saturday, November 18, 1972, page 4.

177 - The new Executive Board of the Kurdish Culture Association held its first meeting yesterday, Teexî Newspaper, Issue 1018, Baghdad, Times Press, Tuesday, April 25, 1972.

178 - The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine delegation visited the headquarters of the Fifth Branch, Teexhi Newspaper, Baghdad, Times Press, Issue 1321, Tuesday, 1 May 1973, page 4.

179 - The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine delegation visited the headquarters of the Fifth Branch, Teexhi Newspaper, Baghdad, Times Press, Issue 1321, Tuesday, 1 May 1973, page 4.

180 - The delegation of the Arab Front for Participation in the Palestinian Revolution met with the delegation of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Teexhi Newspaper, No. 1356, Baghdad, Times Press, Tuesday, June 12, 1973, page 4.

181 - The delegation of the Arab Front for Participation in the Palestinian Revolution met with the delegation of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Teexhi Newspaper, No. 1356, Baghdad, Times Press, Tuesday, June 12, 1973, page 4.

182 - The delegation of the National Front of the People's Republic of Bulgaria arrived yesterday at the invitation of the Central Committee of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan, Teexhi Newspaper, No. 747, Baghdad, Dar El-Cahiz Printing House, Monday, May 31, 1971, page 1.

183 - The Italian Communist Party delegation visited the headquarters of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan, Teexhi Newspaper, No. 918, Baghdad, Dar El-Cahiz Printing House, Wednesday, December 22, 1971, page 1.

184 - The visiting delegation of the Soviet Communist Party visited the headquarters of the Fifth Branch of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan, Teexhi Newspaper, No. 1053, Baghdad, Times Press, Tuesday, June 6, 1972, page 4.

185 - The delegation of the French Communist Party met with the delegation of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan, Teexhi Newspaper, Baghdad, Times Press, Issue 1321, Tuesday, May 1, 1973, page 4.

186 - The delegation of the French Communist Party met with the delegation of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan, Teexhi Newspaper, No. 1321, Baghdad, Times Printing House, Tuesday, May 1, 1973, page 4.

187 - The Soviet Party and Official Delegation visited the Fifth Branch of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan yesterday, Teexhi Newspaper, No. 766, Baghdad, Dar El-Jahiz Printing House, Wednesday, June 23, 1971, page 1.

188 - The Soviet Youth Delegation visited the headquarters of the Iraqi-Soviet Friendship Association, Teexhi Newspaper, No. 726, Baghdad, Dar El-Jahiz Printing House, Wednesday, May 5, 1970, page 4.

189 - Vietnamese Revolutionary Delegation Visits Fifth Branch Headquarters, Teexhi Newspaper, Issue 978, Baghdad, Times Press, Wednesday, March 8, 1972, page 4.

190 - The delegation of the National Congress for the Support of Southern Lebanon visited the headquarters of the Fifth Branch of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan yesterday morning, Teexhi Newspaper, No. 1284, Baghdad, Times Press, Saturday, March 17, 1973, page 1.

191 - The delegation of the National Congress for the Support of Southern Lebanon visited the headquarters of the Fifth Branch of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan yesterday morning, Teexhi Newspaper, No. 1284, Baghdad, Times Press, Saturday, March 17, 1973, page 1.

192 - Zimbabwean delegation visits Fifth Branch headquarters, Teexhi Newspaper, No. 1365, Baghdad, Times Press, Saturday, June 23, 1973, page 4.

193 - The delegation of the Soviet Peace Committee visited the headquarters of the Fifth Branch of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan, Teexhi Newspaper, No. 1025, Baghdad, Times Press, Saturday, May 6, 1972, page 5.

194 - The Finnish Peace Council delegation visited the Fifth Branch of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan, Teexhi Newspaper, No. 1301, Baghdad, Times Press, Saturday, April 7, 1979, page 4.

195 - A delegation from the Political Committee of the Resistance Movement visited the Fifth Branch, Teexhi Newspaper, Baghdad, Times Press, Issue 1328, Thursday, 10 May 1973, page 4.

196 - A delegation from the Palestine Liberation Movement (Fateh) visited the headquarters of the Fifth Branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Teexhi Newspaper, No. 1062, Baghdad, Times Press, Saturday, June 17, 1972, page 4.

197 - Archives of the Encyclopedia Committee of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan.

198 - Ako Abdullah, In memory of Salih Yusif, poet and activist, Sefer Yusif Mirxan, Grandma Zulfiya... A treasure trove of memories, Xebat Newspaper, Organ of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan, Issue 2536, Hewlêr, Monday, June 25, 2007, page 8.

199 - Ehmed Bawer, Contemporary History of Iraq 1914 – 1968, (Sulaymaniyah – Karo Press – 2018), page 382.

200 - First Meeting of the New Executive Board of Kurdish Writers, Birayeti Newspaper, Issue 7, Baghdad, Dar El-Cahiz Printing House, Tuesday, December 15, 1974, page 5.

201 - Al-Yusifi presents two interviews, Teexhi Newspaper, Issue 1497, Baghdad, Times Press, Tuesday, November 27, 1973, page 2.

202 - Al-Yusifi receives a representative of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party and a delegation from the Spartacus Organization, Teexhi Newspaper, No. 1009, Baghdad, Times Press, Saturday, April 15, 1972, page 4.

203 - Al-Yusifi condemns any invitation or move to secede and emphasizes that Barzani is committed to implementing the June declaration, Al-Minar Newspaper, No. 3658, Year Twelfth, Baghdad, Saturday, February 25, 1967, page 4.

204 - Al-Yusifi opens the headquarters of the Kurdistan Women's Union on Kifah Street, Teexhi Newspaper, No. 608, Baghdad, Tuesday, December 8, 1970, page 5.

205 -  Umed Ashna, Seyda Salih Yusifî: Literature and Struggle, (Bê Cih – 1996), pages 2 – 6, 10 – 11.

206 - www. pdk ـleqa 1. com