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Sixth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party

The Sixth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) was held in Qaladze on July 1, 1964, at the request of President Mustafa Barzani and with the approval of the High Monitoring and Inspection Committee The 1964 conference attempted to split the PKK.


Reason for freezing

On June 10, 1963, the offensive against Kurdistan resumed and the regime sent all its armed forces to the battlefields The Syrian army entered Iraq by land and helped the Iraqi army in Badinan, as did international forces such as the Soviet Union and Britain. They, in turn, began to help the Iraqi army.

The Kurdistan Army opened several fronts in order to defend itself and the attacks were repelled by the president Mustafa BarzaniSeveral letters were sent to the PKK Political Bureau asking Ibrahim Ahmadi, the party secretary and the Political Bureau, to carry out several attacks on the army in their own areas, but the Political Bureau in particular Ibrahim AhmadThey did not respond to their demands and even prevented commanders from attacking government forces without their consent Mustafa Barzani and Ibrahim Ahmad be formed.

On November 18, 1963, the Ba'athist government was overthrown by the army. After the coup, Abdul Salam Arif took power and directly called on the revolutionary leadership to negotiate in December 1963 After consulting with the Political Bureau of President Barzani, negotiations began and Colonel Abdul Razzaq Mahmoud, the governor of Sulaimani, came to Ranya as a government representative with the president Mustafa Barzani, Jalal Talabani and Nuri Shawes The members of the Political Bureau met and the discussions led to an agreement between the two sides puts"

On February 17, Ibrahim Ahmad, Sayed Aziz Shamzini and Omar Mustafa is a gun  They came to Sangasar and met with President Barzani. The result of the meeting was that everyone agreed on the February 10 agreement. After a week in Sangasar, Ibrahim Ahmad The comrades returned to Mawat, where they resumed their opposition, which caused a large number of commanders and Peshmergas to leave Mawat and go to President Barzani in Sangasar and his plan Reveal the Political Bureau to President Barzani. After the arrival of the Peshmerga commanders, the President Mustafa Barzani After a meeting with them, he decided to remove all the commanders who had followed the Political Bureau and replace them with other commanders who were reliable. The removed commanders were Jalal Talabani, Omar Mustafa is a gun, Ali Askari and Kamal Mufti, in turn Ibrahim Ahmad On April 9, 1964, the Political Bureau held a conference and decided to suspend it Mustafa BarzaniHe expelled them from the party presidency.  

Because of the decision to suspend the president Mustafa BarzaniThe Peshmerga forces are divided into two fronts, the High Committee for Monitoring and Inspection to maintain unity Kurdistan Democratic Party They proposed to hold a sixth congress. For this purpose, they visited Mawat, the headquarters of the Political Bureau, and Sangasar, the headquarters of the president Mustafa Barzani He agreed to hold the congress, but the Political Bureau was not in favor of holding the congress.


Holding a congress

The congress was held from July 1 to 7, 1964, in the town of Qaladze with the presence of 639 delegates Mustafa Barzani, a twelve-member delegation of congress representatives, consisting of  Ismail Mullah Aziz, Ali Hazhar, Majid Atroshi, Ahmad Atroshi, Fatih Mohammed Amin, Jalal Mahmoud Beg Shuani, ...etc., visited Mawat to attend the congress and present their problems in the congress, but they refused to participate in the congress. Although the congress was delayed for several days, it resumed its work and issued several decisions, the most important of which were the establishment of the revolutionary leadership council, rejecting the decisions of the Mawat conference and expelling fourteen members of the leadership Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) Ibrahim Ahmad, Nuri Shawes, Omar Mustafa Dababa, Sayed Aziz Shamzini, Jalal Talabani, Ali Hamdi, Abdulrahman Zabihy, Ali Askari, Ahmed Abdullah, Hilmi Ali Sharif, Mohammed Haji Tahir, Mullah Abdullah Ismail (Mullah Motor), Nuri Ahmad Taha and Ali Abdullah. . . .

boss Mustafa Barzani He was unanimously re-elected as the party's leader and a new central committee was elected, including fourteen directly elected by the congress delegates and three nominated by the president for leadership members in Mustafa Karadaghi, Mohammed Amin Mohammed Ali and Omar Sharif. . . . The congress delegates had entrusted the president with the election of these members.

The new central committee consisted of:

  1.  Mustafa Barzani, the president
  2. Habib Mohammed Karim, Secretary
  3.  Dr. Mahmoud Osman
  4. Salih Yousfi
  5. Aziz Akreyi
  6. Dr Fuad Jalal
  7. Yadullah Faily
  8. Ali Sinjar
  9. Naaman Isa Sharif
  10. Ismail Arif
  11. Hashim Akrayi
  12.  Ismail Mullah Aziz
  13. Sheikh Mohammed Harsin
  14. Mustafa Karadaghi
  15. Mohammed Amin Mohammed Ali
  16. Omar Sharif
  17. Ramazan Akrayi
  18. Fatih Mohammed Amin. . . .

Then the Central Committee chaired Mustafa Barzani They elected members of the Political Bureau and Secretary Habib Mohammed Karim, Secretary, Dr. Mahmoud Osman, Mustafa Karadaghi, Ismail Arif and Hashim Akrayi. . . . The High Monitoring and Inspection Committee was directly elected by the congress delegates, including Shawkat Haji Ali, Fares Koremarki, Mohammed Mullah Qadir, Sabri Botani, Mullah Salih Haji and Mullah Haider Mohammed Hussein.

The congress also elected a new leadership and approved its program and internal rules.


Sources:

  1.  Massoud Barzani, Barzani and the Kurdish Liberation Movement, 1958-1961, Volume II, (2012).
  2.  Salah al-Khursan, Political Preparations in Iraqi Kurdistan, Reading in the Files of Kurdish Movements and Parties in Iraq 1946-2001, (Beirut – Al-Bagh Printing House – 2001m).
  3.  Habib Mohammed Karim, History of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iraq (in the headquarters) 1946 - 1993, (Duhok - Khabat Printing House - 1998m).
  4.  Nizar Khaylani, Asad Khaylani opens his memoirs, (Erbil - Badrkhan Publishing House - Hevi Printing House - 2014).
  5.  Abdulstar Tahir Sharif, Struggle with Life Memoir 1971-1935, Volume 1, (Kirkuk - Arabkha Printing House - 2005).
  6.  Hussein Mohammed Aziz, Five Hours with Braim Ahmad, Sulaimani, Sima Printing House, 3rd edition, 2002.
  7.  Shakib Aqrawi, Hard Years in Kurdistan: Important Political and Military Events in Kurdistan and Iraq from 1958 to 1980, Second Edition, (Erbil, Minara Printing House, 2007).
  8.  Ali Sanjari, The Kurdish Case and the Arab Baath Party in Iraq, Part III, (Duhok - Khani Printing House - 2012).
  9.  History of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), Congress and Conference (Program and Internal Rules), Volumes 1 and 2, (Erbil-Rojhelat Printing House-2021).

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