Circumstances and causes

In February 1965, fighting resumed between the Kurds and the Iraqi government, and after the resumption of fighting, the revolutionary leadership moved its headquarters from Pishdar to Balak. The Iranian government is completely in Ibrahim Ahmad Desperate, he tried to contact the revolutionary leadership, which resulted in the Iranian government extensively supporting the revolution against the ruling regime in Iraq. On the eve of the regime's war, a number of Kurdish-loving personalities and intellectuals inside and outside Kurdistan fell between the president Mustafa Barzani The group of the old Political Bureau, who had fled to Iran and asked President Barzani to issue an amnesty for them, was granted an amnesty by Barzani unconditionally and on July 6, 1965, they all returned to Kurdistan Ibrahim Ahmad He asked to stay in Tehran. After the group returns Ibrahim Ahmad, by decision of the President Mustafa Barzani, the Peshmergas joined the ranks of the revolution and their leaders were supervised Jalal Talabani They were settled in the Raqqa Valley. After a while, they secretly contacted the Iraqi government from the Raqqa Valley.

After the assassination of Iraqi President Abdul Salam Arif, he was succeeded by his brother Abdul Rahman Arif, who directly contacted the revolutionary leadership and called for talks to end the war They sent a proposal and met with the revolutionary leadership, but the departure of members of the old political bureau group to the government disrupted the negotiations, thus resuming the fighting and the government, with the help of the old political bureau group, planned an attack On May 2, 1966, the government resumed its offensive, but the government failed in that round of battle and finally had no hope of victory. On June 15, 1966, it sent a delegation to seek a ceasefire The bill was located at President Barzani's headquarters and was discussed with the president on the 18th of this month Barzani The meeting agreed that the revolutionary leadership should send a delegation to Baghdad for negotiations and agreement. The delegation arrived in Baghdad on June 22 and the agreement was signed and announced on June 29. On October 28, 1966, President Abdul Rahman Arif came up with the president Mustafa Barzani gathered.

After the June 29 agreement and the normalization of the situation in Kurdistan, the PKK leadership decided to prepare for a new party congress in order to reorganize the ranks of the party.

Holding a congress

The seventh congress was held between November 15 and 21, 1966, in the presence of 425 delegates, representing 30,000 members of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), in the secondary school of Ghala village in Erbil province. The Political Bureau presented its political report to the delegates and highlighted all the events in Kurdistan, Iraq and the region, especially the agricultural reform and insurance of companies by the Baghdad government and the economic collapse of Iraq.

The congress made a number of important decisions on the organization and management of the liberated areas, drafted a constitution for the Revolutionary Leadership Council, and appointed a president Mustafa Barzani Send a memorandum to the Presidency and the Presidency of the Council of Ministers to implement the June 29 statement.

At the conference, each of Ali Abdullah and Nuri Shawes as two members of the Political Bureau Fifth Congress, who had joined the ranks of the fans of the meeting remained because they did not support the group Jalal Talabani ـ Ibrahim Ahmad, became a member of the Political Bureau. The name of the PKK remained unchanged and the president Mustafa Barzani He was re-elected as party leader for the first time Idris Barzani and Massoud Barzani They attended the opening of the congress.

Elected members of the leadership at the seventh congress:

1. Mustafa Barzani, the president
2. Habib Mohammed Karim
3. Dr. Mahmoud Osman
4. Salih Yousfi
5. Nuri Shawes
6. Ali Abdullah
7. Sami Abdulrahman
8. Shawkat Akreyi
9. Ahmad Atroshi
10. Yadullah Faily
11. Majid Atroshi
12. Aziz Akreyi
13. Ismail Mullah Aziz
14. Ali Sinjar
15. Naaman Jesus. . . .

Reserve Members of the Central Committee:

1. Hashim Akrayi
2. Shafiq Agha  
3. Fatih Mohammed Amin . . . .

The members of the Political Bureau were increased from five to seven and were elected by the members of the Central Committee as follows:

1. Habib Mohammed Karim, Secretary
2. Dr. Mahmoud Osman, Member
3. Salih Yousfi, Member
4. Nuri Shawes, Member
5. Ali Abdullah, Member
6. Sami Abdulrahman, Member
7. Aziz Akreyi, Member.

Seven members and two reserves were elected to the Monitoring Committee:

1. Rashid Arif, the president
2.  Najmaddin Yousfi, Member
3. Mullah Haider Mohammed Hussein, Member
4. Sabri Botani, Member
5. Mullah Salih Haji Hassan, Member.

After the end of the congress, the important tasks by the president Mustafa BarzaniThey were entrusted to a number of leadership members, including Mahmoud Osman He was entrusted with foreign relations. Sami Abdulrahman He was assigned several political and security tasks. Idris Barzani He was appointed head of the military bureau of the Revolutionary Leadership Council. Massoud Barzani He was entrusted with the management of the Protection Bureau.

Another important achievement of the congress was the republication of the party's language newspaper Khabati Massoud Barzani He visited Baghdad, took advantage of the opportunity and was able to obtain an order to release the prisoners of 1965 and regain the license to operate the newspaper Khabat, which was the new issue of Khabat newspaper on April 16, 1967 under his supervision Salih Yousfi expelled.

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