Latif Mahmud Saeed Muhammad, known as Sheikh Latif Hafid, was a writer and politician who was elected First Vice President of the Kurdish Democratic Party in 1946 by the delegates of the first congress, known as the first founding and unification congress. This was done by replacing some of the responsibilities of General Mustafa Barzani He became the founder and leader of his new party. He was imprisoned in Sulaymaniyah, Hil and Basra prisons in the years (1956 - 1958). In 1963, he became a member of the Koye Congress (the first people's congress). On January 21, 1963, he became a member of the Kurdish negotiating delegation with the Iraqi delegation in the town of Ranye, which was aimed at autonomy for Kurdistan. In 1964, he did not support the political school of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and became a supporter of the President. In 1964, he became a member of the leadership council of the revolution in Iraqi Kurdistan. In 1964, he became a member of the constitutional committee of the working office (al mekteb al tanfizi).
Biography
Latif Mahmud Said Muhammad was born in the city of Sulaymaniyah, and is one of the most prominent Kurdish figures and has a high social status. He is from the family of sheikhs of the Qadiri Barzanji order of Sulaymaniyah, who was a follower of Sheikh Abdulqadir Gilani (1077 - 1165). He is the son of Sheikh Ahmad Noday, known as Kibrit Alahamra, and the youngest son of Malik Mahmud the First (1881 - 1956). In January 1908, his grandfather Said was assassinated in the city of Mosul by the Union and Progress Party (Hizb Al Atihad و al Taraqi), and his father Sheikh Mahmud was also injured.
In 1919, Sheikh Mahmud, his father, was appointed ruler of Kurdistan by the authorities of the British Empire. In the British mission report written in 1933, Sheikh Mahmud Hafid was introduced to the work and resistance of the settlement. In 1919, as a child, he emigrated to Eastern Kurdistan with his family. In 1931, he participated in the Awbarik (Sulaymaniyah) war during the uprising of Sheikh Mahmud Hafid. He was one of the founders of the Brotherhood Association in 1938. In 1939, he severed his ties with Mustafa Barzani In 1941, he met with the Soviet intelligence agency representative in Kurdistan and Shahnishin, Naqib Vilchevski, to discuss the situation in the region and the rights of the Kurds. In the years (1942 - 1943), he lived in Eastern Kurdistan and established a Kurdish government in cooperation with some of the tribal leaders in the town of Sardasht.
On July 12, 1943, with the help of his father, Malik Mahmud, it was easy to pass. Mustafa Barzani (1903 - 1979) started in the city of Sulaymaniyah and moved to Eastern Kurdistan and from there to the Barzan region. In 1946, he supported the Democratic Republic of Kurdistan.
In 1973, a collection of his poems in Kurdish, Middle Kurmanji, was published in two volumes of 82 pages in the city of Sulaymaniyah under the title (Gulê Werihayî). He was proficient in Kurdish, Arabic, and Persian.
Worksheet
Latif Mahmud Saeed Muhammad was elected First Vice President of the Kurdish Democratic Party in 1946 by the delegates of the first congress, known as the first founding and unification congress. This was done by replacing some of the responsibilities of General Mustafa Barzani was the founder and leader of the new party. In 1946, the news of the defeat of the Democratic Republic of Kurdistan reached him through Jalal Amin Beg (1911 - 2004). In the years (1946 - 1958), he pinned his hopes on many of the cadres of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan of Iran, such as Xeni Biluryan and Hejar Mukriyani and Heydari and Abdulrahman Zabihi. In 1948, he established a printing house and shelter for the cadres of the Kurdistan Democratic Party to distribute their publications. In 1948, leftist demonstrators in the city of Sulaymaniyah illegally attacked him and he also carried out aerial bombings to disperse them, which angered his father, Sheikh Mahmud Hafid.
In 1948, with the encouragement of the Iraqi Communist Party, a part of the farmers of the Arbat region on the border of Sulaymaniyah province stood against him and, with his weakness, made peace with the Iraqi Communist Party. However, throughout the sixties of the twentieth century, he was known for supporting the Communists in addition to supporting the Barzanis and the Kurdish nationalist movement. However, he refrained from armed confrontation with the Iraqi state. On January 28, 1950, he was arrested by Jalal Khalidi, the governor of Sulaymaniyah, on charges of collaborating with the notorious bandits, and was later sent to Nasiriyah in southern Iraq by order of Nuri Said, the Prime Minister of the Iraqi Empire. In 1952, he participated in the Newroz celebration in the city of Sulaymaniyah. On November 10, 1956, the body of Sheikh Mahmud al-Hafid (1881 - 1956) was returned to the city of Sulaymaniyah and the crowd headed to the funeral procession to see Sheikh Latif, but the Iraqi police opened fire on the crowd and before the crowd could reach their destination, two people were martyred there.
In the years (1956 - 1958) he was initially detained at the Sulaymaniyah prison and then transferred to the Hileh prison and then to the Basra prison in southern Iraq. This detention was only at the request of Omar Ali, the governor of Sulaymaniyah. In 1956, at the prison, he had contact with the leadership of the Iraqi Communist Party and through the Iraqi Communist Party, he sought to contact General Mustafa Barzani On July 14, 1958, in a message to the leaders of the Iraqi monarchy, one of his demands for the people of Sulaymaniyah was the liberation of the city. A few days later, in the coup of July 14, 1958, he was released from prison. On Sunday, August 10, 1958, in the city of Kirkuk, he welcomed Sheikh Ahmed Sheikh Muhammad Sheikh Abdulsalam (1892 - 1969), known as Sheikh Ahmed Barzan, who had just been released from the Basra prison, and accompanied him in a convoy of cars to the town of Pird on the border of Kirkuk province. On April 17, 1959, at the second congress of the Iraqi Peace Movement, he was elected a member of the Iraqi Peace National Council. In 1959, he visited the Soviet Union with a delegation of Kurds from Southern Kurdistan and met with the authorities and refugees from Southern and Eastern Kurdistan. In 1962, he settled in the village of Sitek. In 1963, he became a member of the First People's Congress (the first People's Congress).
On January 21, 1963, he was a member of the Kurdish negotiating delegation with the Iraqi delegation in the town of Ranye, which aimed at autonomy for Kurdistan. In 1964, he did not support the political school of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and became a supporter of the President. In 1964, he became a member of the Revolutionary Leadership Council in Iraqi Kurdistan. In 1964, he became a member of the Constitutional Committee of the Working Office (al mekteb al tanfizi). At the end of his life, he fell ill and spent a long time in exile. In 1966, he received a delegation from the Iraqi Government for negotiations in Jundiyan, Erbil Province. In 1967, he received Jalal Hisameddin Nureddin (1933 - 2017), known as Jalal Talabani He passed away at 6:30 pm on May 12, 1972, at Rahbat Hospital in Baghdad and was buried in the Great Mosque of Sulaymaniyah. His body was sent to Sulaymaniyah by the fifth branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. A delegation of the Kurdistan Democratic Party's political school, represented by the Chairman, Mustafa Barzani attended the condolence meeting in the city of Sulaymaniyah. A message of condolences was sent to his family by Ahmed Hassan Bakr (1914 - 1982), President of the Republic of Iraq, on his passing.
His works
Guli Werîw - 1973.
Grass.
Social media - 1978.
Memoirs of Sheikh (Latif) Hafid on the revolutions of Sheikh Mahmud Hafid - 1995.
Memories - 1995.
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