Biography

Auni Yusuf Ahmad Qasim, also known as Auni Qazi, was born in 1908 in Erbil. He began his religious education with his father and Shahbaz Effendi Haider. In 1921, he completed his primary education in Erbil and moved to Baghdad In 1934 he graduated from high school and secondary school in Baghdad. In 1934 he entered the Baghdad College of Law. In 1939 he received a bachelor's degree in law from the College of Law in Baghdad He worked as a lawyer in Sulaimani and later in Erbil. In 1942, he was appointed as a judge in Zakho town of Mosul province. In 1942, he was transferred to Mosul as a judge. In 1943, he was transferred to Basra in southern Iraq He was transferred to Mosul prison and sentenced to three years in prison. In 1944-1945, he translated articles in the Kurdish magazine Galawezh published in Baghdad. In 1946, he worked as a lawyer.

He was a refugee in Iran in 1974-1975. He returned to South Kurdistan in 1975. He died on July 15, 1988 in Ibn Baytar Hospital in Baghdad and was buried in the municipal cemetery in Erbil in mid-July 1994 Erbil Municipal Council approved the naming of one of the streets and squares in Erbil after Auni Yousef. He was fluent in Kurdish, Turkish, Arabic and English.

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In 1939, he participated in the student demonstrations in Baghdad against the authorities of the Kingdom of Iraq and the United Kingdom. He became a member of the Kurdish Hope Party. In 1940, he was admitted as a member of the Iraqi Bar Association He was arrested by the Iraqi authorities in 1942 for supporting the Rashid Ali (1893-1965) movement and participating in demonstrations in Erbil Kurdish activists have been expelled from the city by the governor of Sulaimani.

In 1942, he was accompanied by Dr Jaafar Mohammed Karim In 1942, he founded the Mosul branch of the Kurdish Hope Party with Dr. Jaafar Faily Jaafar Mohammed Karim He was imprisoned in Ammar prison in southern Iraq on September 29, 1945 for supporting the Second Barzan Revolution (1943-1945). He was released from southern Iraq in 1946. In 1946, he was appointed a member of the central committee of the Kurdish Democratic Party First Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party He was elected in 1946 as one of the officials of the Kurdish Democratic Party in Erbil province. In 1947, he received official permission from the governor of Erbil to celebrate Newroz in his name, although by Nuri Saeedi, the prime minister of the royal government He was opposed by Iraq, but after many interviews and efforts, he received his approval on June 20, 1947, the day of the martyr's funeral Khayrullah Abdulkarim  (1912-1947) Also known as Khayrullah Gurjizadeh, he participated in Erbil. In 1948, he received official permission to celebrate Newroz in Erbil from the Iraqi authorities. In 1948, he represented Erbil province in demonstrations against He signed the Treaty of Portsmouth in Baghdad.

In 1948, his house was shot at by the men in power. Abbas Mamand Agha of Sarkapkan and Sayyid Ahmadi Sayyid Tahai Nahri supported him to end the problem. In the spring of 1948, he led a demonstration against him He was arrested on May 24, 1948 for his Kurdish activities by the Iraqi authorities. He was tried on July 20, 1948. In late 1949, he was named as the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader A Kurdish Democratic Party leader was identified as a fighter by Yehuda Ibrahim Sadiq, a member of the leadership of the Iraqi Communist Party, in his confessions before the Criminal Investigation Directorate as a fighter in 1949 in the customary court He was sentenced to one and a half years in prison.

 In July 1958, he accompanied Sheikh Ahmad Sheikh Mohammed Sheikh Abdulsalam (1892-1969), also known as Sheikh Ahmadi Barzan, to visit Shaqlawa town in Erbil province He was the president of the Kirkuk Court of Appeal in 1958. On September 14, 1958, he was appointed Minister of Labor and Housing in the cabinet of Abdul Karim Qasim (1914-1963). In July 1958, he visited the Ministry of Defense with a Kurdish delegation to congratulate the Iraqi army on the overthrow of the Iraqi monarchy. On July 1, 1959, he accompanied the president Mustafa Barzani He visited the headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in Baghdad, a day after the suspension of the lawyer's wing Hamza Abdullah Omar (1915-1998) was a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). From 16 to 17 July 1959, he was a delegate to the Second Congress of the Iraqi Peace Movement in Baghdad.

In 1959, he was elected a member of the Central Committee by the delegates of the Congress Kurdistan Democratic Party In 1959, he became the deputy president of the Kirkuk Court of Appeal. In May 1962, he signed the declaration of peace for Kurdistan prepared by the Iraqi Communist Party and the Iraqi National Party He joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces and served in the liberated areas of Sulaimani province for a while Sixth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party He was born in Qaladze township of Sulaimani province. In mid-1966, he was appointed by the central committee Kurdistan Democratic PartyHe was appointed as a member of the Preparatory Committee Seventh Congress Appointed, 1966 in Seventh Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party He was elected in 1969 in Ghala village of Erbil province The September Revolution With the help of lawyer Salih Haider Assem (1922-2001), he became known as Salih Haidari and Hamid Osman Abubakr (1927-1993) founded the Liberation Party, but dissolved it after the March 11, 1970 agreement Kurdistan Democratic Party The Ba'ath Party has joined the Peshmerga forces.

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