Shafiq Ahmed Ebdulfatah Ismail, known by the names (Shafiq Ahmed Axa Çelebi and Shafiq Axa). Politician, was a collaborator of the second Barzan revolution. In 1966, he was elected as a member of the central committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. He was the Deputy Governor of Kirkuk and in 1974 became the governor of Sulaymaniyah and was martyred by the Leadership Council of the September Revolution on June 27, 1980 in the city of Sulaymaniyah.
Biography
Shafiq Ahmed Abdulfatah Ismail was born in Sulaymaniyah province. He graduated from primary school and is from the family of the Twelve Horsemen of Mariwan. In 1930, he participated in the demonstration at the gate of the Sulaymaniyah Palace. In the years (1943 - 1945), he collaborated in the second Barzan revolution. In 1945, he contacted the ranks of the Kurdish Hîwa Party.
Worksheet
Shafiq Ahmed Abdulfatah Ismail joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces in 1961. He was arrested by the Iraqi army in 1963. In 1966, he was elected by the delegates as a member of the central committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 1966, he became the head of the executive committee of the working office (Al Makteb al Tanfizi) of the Revolutionary Leadership Council in Iraqi Kurdistan. In 1966, he was appointed Deputy Governor of Kirkuk by the Revolutionary Leadership Council in Iraqi Kurdistan. In 1967, he became the head of the third district committee. In 1967, there was an assassination attempt on his life in Kirkuk, but he was saved. On April 9, 1970, after the March 11 agreement between the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, he became the General Manager of the Sulaymaniyah Cigarette Factory by a republican decree. In 1970, he attended the eighth congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the village of Nawpirdan in the Erbil province. In the years (1970 - 1974), he was a member of the fourth branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.
On Tuesday, June 1, 1971, he received a delegation from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Bulgaria as a representative of the Third Party Committee of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan. In 1972, he became the general manager of the Sulaymaniyah General Cigarette Company. In 1974, he was appointed by the leadership of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan as the head of the Kurdistan Democratic Party's relations in the province of Kermanshah for the affairs of refugees from Southern Kurdistan. In 1974, he became the governor of Sulaymaniyah after the September Revolution. In 1975, after the defeat of the September Revolution, he emigrated to Iran. In 1976, he returned to Southern Kurdistan and was exiled to the town of Rumeysh in the province of Samawa in southern Iraq. On November 7, 1976, he was appointed as the head of the Wasit Province Municipalities in southern Iraq by a decree of the Revolutionary Leadership Council. He resided there under house arrest until 1979. In 1977, he became the head of the Kut Province Municipalities. He was martyred in the city of Sulaymaniyah in 1980. He was fluent in Kurdish, Arabic, English and Persian.
Source:
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5- Memorial of the Iraqi martyr Shafiq Ahmed Axa Al-Jalebi, Al Taaxi newspaper, published by the public, issue 4018, al-daral al-salasa, Baghdad, Al-Ahad, June 29, 2003, page 5
6- The Kurdish Socialist Party (Pasok), the Peshmerga's paramilitary force, is searching for Intelligence Services Che Taune in Kurdistan, late October 1981. l l - 2 - 2.
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8- Comrade Kiwestani, those were the days of patriotism for all of us, (Sulaymaniyah - Karo Publishing House 2017), 11 - 303 - 302.
