Conditions and preparations

In the late 1980s, members of the PKK's interim leadership Ninth Congress On November 28, 1980, the Iraqi National Democratic Front (INDF) was formed, which included the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and six other Kurdish and Iraqi parties. Then came the outbreak of the eight-year Iran-Iraq war on September 22, 1980, which occupied Kurdish forces throughout the war. During this period, civil war had engulfed most Kurdish forces and parties, in particular Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Kurdistan National Union, until it was terminated at the Tehran Conference in October 1986 and his untimely death Idris Barzani On December 31, The Kurdistan Front was formed on May 2, 1988, consisting of seven Kurdish parties. Then came the end of the Iran-Iraq war after eight years on August 20, 1988, the brutal attacks of the Ba'ath regime on Kurdistan in 1988, the chemical attacks and Anfal of Kurdistan and many other important events during that period.

According to the party's internal rules, the 10th Congress should have been held in 1983 or 1984, but it was postponed due to unfavorable circumstances and unwanted developments until it was finally decided at the Central Committee meeting in June The congress was held. At the same meeting, it was decided to form a preparatory committee for the congress, provided that none of them were members of the central committee Nechirvan Barzani In July of the same year, elections began to elect members of the congress from among the military and party organizations. Preparations for the congress were completed by October

Holding a congress

The congress was held from December 2 to 12, 1989 in the village of Heshmaw, in East Kurdistan, with the participation of 332 elected representatives of the liberated areas outside the jurisdiction of the Iraqi government and appointed representatives of the occupied areas Struggle for Democracy for Iraq and Autonomy for Kurdistan).

Political Report of the Congress by Ali AbdullahThen the letters of 130 political parties and organizations friendly to the PKK were read out. The congress decided to renew the rank of vice president for the second time in the history of the PKK First, the president had two deputies, but on the contrary, the rank of secretary, which had been alongside the deputies in the first congress, was removed on this basis, on the proposal of the president Massoud Barzani, Ali Abdullah Amin He was appointed Vice President and this appointment was approved by the delegates of the Congress.

At this congress, a number of decisions were made and Article (5) of the program was completely amended and the powers of the PKK leader were changed and the powers of the secretary were no longer there. Massoud Mustafa Barzani He was unanimously re-elected as the leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) for the second time.

The structure of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), based on the internal rules of the 10th Congress, included cells, main cells, organization committees, regional committees, branch committees, central committee, political bureau and president. The Central Inspection Committee was also elected by the Political Bureau and consisted of one member of the Political Bureau and two members of the Central Committee, whose members rotated.

The elected leadership of the 10th Congress:

1. Nechirvan Barzani
2.   Dr. Jarjis Hassan
3.  Jawhar Namiq Saleem
4.  Dr Roj Nuri Shawes
5.  Hoshyar Mahmoud Mohammed Fares
6.  Fazel Mirani
7.  Abdulmuhaimen Barzani
8.  Falakeddin Kakeyi
9.  Hamid Effendi
10. Massoud Salahi
11. Christophe Yalda Tarkhan
12. Ezadin Barwari
13. Azad Karadaghi
14. Dr Kamal Kirkuk
15. Zaim Ali
16. Dr Pirot Ahmad Ibrahim
17. Qadir QadirAli
18. Qadir Qachakh
19. Dr. Ali Baba Shawes
20. Dr Mohammed Salih Juma
21. Darwish Abdulrahman Agha 
22. Omar Osman Mergasuri

The reserve members of the Central Committee were also elected as follows:

1.  Dr. Naseeh Ghafoor
2. Mahmoud Mohammed
3. Kamal Hassan Chawmar
4. Younis Rojbayani
5. Sayed Salih Barwari

At the first meeting of the Central Committee, the members of the new Political Bureau were elected Nechirvan Barzani, Fazel Mirani, DrRoj Nuri Shawes, Dr. Jarjis Hassan, Jawhar Namiq, Hoshyar Zebari and Zaim Ali. . . .

Since the situation in Kurdistan was completely deteriorated after the Anfal process, after the congress, an attempt was made to make changes in the branches and send the Peshmerga detachment back to Kurdistan.

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