Biography

Saleh Rushdi TahirHe was born in 1926 in Duhok, Kurdistan. He was born in the family of the Mufti of Amedi. He completed his primary education in Amedi and secondary education in Sulaimani. In 1951, he graduated from the Law College in Baghdad In 1957, he was appointed as a judge in the court of Amedi, Mosul province. In 1957, he was appointed as a judge in Shaqlawa, Erbil province He was appointed as a judge in the Iraqi civil courts.

He was arrested by the Iraqi security forces in 1963-1964 and severely tortured. After his release in 1964, he left the Iraqi Republic and settled in Lebanon, where he taught He lived in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and worked in banking in Riyadh. From 1990 to 1999, he lived in the United States He died in the United States and was buried there. He was fluent in Kurdish, Arabic and English.

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Saleh Rushdi TahirIn 1944, he joined the Kurdish Revival Society (KRS) in Sulaimani and was one of its active members. In 1945, he was a member of the delegation of Sulaimani High School to Baghdad In 1945, he became a member of the Kurdish Revival Society (KRK). In 1946, he joined the ranks of the Kurdish Democratic Party in Mosul June 1947 Member of the delegation to receive the bodies of four officers martyred Izzat Abdulaziz Abdullatif (1912-1947) known as Izzat Katani, Mustafa Mustafa Mustafa (1912-1947) known as Mustafa KhoshnawKhayrollah Abdulkarim Abdullah (1912-1947), also known as Khayrollah Gurjizadeh, and Mohammad Mahmoud Mohammed (1922-1947), also known as Mohammed Qudsi Martyr Izzat Abdulaziz in Qulasnji village near Amedi town.

In 1948, he was a delegate to the Lions Congress of the Iraqi Students Union. On December 21, 1948, he actively participated in the demonstration against the Portsmouth Treaty in Baghdad He was elected a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) (First Baghdad Conference). In 1951, he boycotted the second congress of the KDP In 1957, he was the leader of the first branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). In 1957, he began to strengthen the KDP organization in Khoshnawti.

 After the coup d'etat of July 14, 1958, he was one of the demanders of the Iraqi National Democratic Front for the political forces on the ground. In August 1958, he met with a delegation of the United Kurdistan Democratic Party Ahmadi Barzani, who had just been released from Basra prison in southern Iraq, had arrived in Mosul by train and chanted slogans in Arabic and Kurdish to encourage the Kurds in Mosul Mustafa Barzani (1903-1979) said that it was an important and courageous work for the city at that time because the people of this city were overcome by Arab nervousness.

 On December 10, 1959, he was elected president of the Shaqlawa Employees Club. On March 21, 1959, he supervised the Newroz celebration in Shaqlawa town and delivered a speech on behalf of the United Kurdistan Democratic Party On June 19, 1959, he represented the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in Shaqlawa township. He was the director of the commemoration of the four officers of martyr Izzat Abdulaziz Abdullatif (1912-1947). Ketani, Mustafa Mustafa Mustafa (1912-1947) Mustafa KhoshnawKhayrullah Abdulkarim Abdullah (1912-1947), also known as Khayrullah Gurjizadeh, and Mohammed Mahmoud Mohammed (1922-1947), also known as Mohammed Qudsi, were born on June 30, 1959 at the Second Baghdad Conference He was suspended from the leadership in 1959 by the delegates of the Fourth Congress for being leftist  Kurdistan Democratic Party - Expelled from Iraq in 1960, worked as a judge in the town of Baladi, Diyala province. After the coup d'etat of February 8, 1963, he was arrested and severely tortured by the National Guard militia under the command of the Ba'athist Arab Party. 

in his works : 

1. قصص وأساطير من الأدب الكوردي ـ

2. الثورة الكوردية.

3. Explanation of the Agricultural Reform Law.

4. Agricultural Relations in the Agricultural Reform Law -

Sources:

1. Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board

2. Mahdi Mohammed Qadir, Political Developments in Iraqi Kurdistan 1945-1958, (Sulaimani, Kurdistan Strategic Research Center, 2005), pp. 66, 128.

3. Mustafa Nariman, Dictionary of Kurdish Writers and Writers, (Baghdad, General Secretariat of Culture and Youth, Assad Printing House, 1986), p.

4. Jamal Baban, Sulaimani, My Bright City, Volumes 1 and 2, Second Edition, (Erbil - Aras Publishing House - Aras Printing House - 2012), pp. 418-3

5. Mam Jalal, Braim Ahmad, a wise leader of a new era of Kurdishness, Khak Magazine, No. 58, Year 5, Sulaimani, Dilêr Offset Printing House, April 10, 2002, pp. 6-7.

6. Mam Jalal, Year of Students Congress, Part 5, Khak Magazine, No. 14, Year 2, Sulaimani, Dilêr Offset Printing House, August 10, 1998, p.

7. Mam Jalal, where did the struggle come from and how did it become an organ of the PKK? Khak Magazine, No. 55, Year 5, Sulaimani, Dilêr Offset Printing House, 10 December 2002, p.

8. Shaqlawa Club Elections, Hataw Magazine, No. 148, Year 5, Erbil, Kurdistan Printing House, Saturday, December 31, 1959, p.

9. Ezadin Mustafa Rasul, Bashk le Yadashtekanm, Volume 1, (Sulaimani - Sardam Publishing House - Hamdi Publishing House - 2006), p.

10. Newroz in Shaqlawa, Hataw Magazine, No. 153, Year 5, Erbil, Kurdistan Printing House, Wednesday, April 15, 1959, p.

11. Farhad Auni, 36 Letters and Several Personalities of My Diwan, (Erbil – Salahaddin University Printing House – 2019), p.

12. Saleh Rushdi, National Democratic Front of Mutrasa, Shafaq Magazine, No. 9, Volume 1, Kirkuk, Kirkuk Printing House, October 1958, p.

13. Jamal Baban, Sulaimani Students' Trip to Baghdad, Sulaimani Magazine, Sulaimani Municipality, No. 51, Second Volume, Sulaimani, Dilêr Printing House, October 2004, pp. 11-12.

14. Habib Mohammed Karim, History of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iraq (in the headquarters) 1946-1993, (Duhok, Khabat Printing House, 1998), pp. 42, 60-6

15. Abdulfattah Ali al-Butani, Badinan Region 1925-1970: Studies in Political Events and Developments, Part II, (Erbil-Kurdish Academy-2017), p.

16. Abdulfattah Ali al-Butani, Badinan Region 1925-1970: A Study in Political Events and Developments, Part I, (Erbil, Kurdish Academy, 2017), p.

17. Latif Barzanji, June 19, Hataw Magazine, No. 157, Year 6, Erbil, Kurdistan Printing House, Tuesday, June 30, 1959, pp. 19-20.

18. Mam Jalal, Meetings of the Characteristics of Praise and Humanity, Rare Qualities and Rafi's Creation, Al-Ittihad Newspaper, Central Newspaper of Kurdistan National Union, No. 384, Sunnah Al-Thamna, Sulaimani, Al-Juma'a, 5 August 2000, p.

19. Mam Jalal, Braim Ahmad, a wise leader under a new era of Kurdishness, Khak Magazine, No. 58, Year 5, Sulaimani, Dilêr Offset Printing House, 10 April 2002, p.

20. Republican Decree No. 502, Iraqi Newspaper, Ministry of Guidance in Iraq, No. 102, Al-Sunnah al-Awwal, Baghdad, Al-Arba'a, 31 December 1958, p.

21. Musadeq Tovi, Ronahi Magazine, (Erbil – Zhin Center for Revival of Kurdish Documentary Culture and Journalism, Rojhelat Printing House – 2014), pp. 130-131.