Politician Mustafa Karim Ghafoor, also known as Mustafa Hamamchi, was born in First Baghdad Conference Member of the Central Committee Kurdish Democratic Party He later defected from the PKK and refused to implement the party's decisions and recommendations in 1953 when it was closed Third Congress He was asked by the congress management committee to attend the congress, but he did not attend. He and Salih Rushdi formed a new organization called the Iraqi Kurdish Democratic Party.

Biography.

Mustafa Karim Ghafoor was born in 1924 in Sulaimani. He was admitted to the sports department of the primary teachers' school in Baghdad in 1947 He was martyred and buried in the cemetery of Sheikh Awla in Sulaimani. He was fluent in Kurdish, Arabic and English.

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Mustafa Karim Ghafoor joined the ranks of the Brotherhood in 1939 and was a rank in the British Levitical Army in Cyprus in 1941. He joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in First Baghdad ConferenceMember of the Central Committee Kurdish Democratic Party In 1951, he was the director of the secret printing house of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). Later, he defected from the KDP and refused to implement the party's decisions and recommendations and return the printing press to the party.

After leaving the PKK, he began to reveal the secrets of the PKK. In 1953, when it was closed In the Third Congress He was asked by the congress management committee to attend the congress, but did not attend. Together with Salih Rushdi, he founded a new organization called the Iraqi Kurdish Democratic Party, which was dissolved in the second half of Members rejoined the Kurdish Democratic Party.

He was martyred on February 14, 1993 in an explosion in the warehouse of the Iraqi Red Crescent Society in Sulaimani, which was carried out by the Ba'ath Party's Kirkuk security forces. He was buried in the cemetery of Sheikh Awla in Sulaimani. He was fluent in Kurdish, Arabic and English.

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