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Sirwan Barzani

Officer and politician Sirwan Sabir Mustafa Sheikh Muhammad, known as Sirwan Barzani, joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in 1987 and the same year he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Peshmerga forces...

Officer and politician Sirwan Sabir Mustafa Sheikh Muhammad, known as Sirwan Barzani, joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in 1987 and the same year he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Peshmerga forces. He was a delegate to the 11th congresses of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in 1993 and 12th in 1999, and was elected a member of the leadership council of the Kurdistan Democratic Party at the 13th congress in 2010.

 

Biography

Sirwan Barzani was born in Erbil in 1970 and comes from a family of Barzanesi sheikhs. He graduated from Zakho Military College in 1998. In 2015, he received an honorary doctorate in the field of national security from the Cambridge Academy of Science and Technology in the Arab Republic of Egypt. He is fluent in Kurdish, Arabic, Persian and English.

 

Worksheet

Sirwan Barzani emigrated to Iran with his family in 1975 after the defeat of the September Revolution and returned to Southern Kurdistan with his father in 1979 and was exiled to Baghdad. In 1987, he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and in 1987, he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Peshmerga forces. In 1988, he participated in the Khwakurk campaign against the Iraqi army. In 1990, he was appointed head of the Presidential Guard. Masoud Barzani and in 1991 the assistant Nechirvan Barzani which was present during the uprising in Southern Kurdistan and participated in the liberation of the city of Sulaymaniyah.

 

He was a delegate to the 11th congress in 1993 and the 12th in 1999 of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and was elected a member of the leadership council of the Kurdistan Democratic Party at the 13th congress in 2010.

 

In 1994, he became the commander of Barzani's army, which was affiliated with the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 1999, he became the Advisor to the President. Masoud Barzani In 2014, he was promoted to the rank of Major General by the President of the Kurdistan Region. In 2014, he was appointed commander of the sixth military axis, Giwer-Makhmur, on the border of Erbil province, during the war against ISIS.

Source:

Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Committee Archives.

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