Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) Night Meeting (Night Meeting – early July 1979) After the death of the president Mustafa Barzani The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) held its ninth congress in Shawana village of East Kurdistan.

Reasons and conduct of meetings

On February 11, 1979, after the Iranian people's uprising, the monarchy collapsed and the Islamic Republic took its place. The leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) was able to establish good relations with the new Iranian authorities They had been in the country since 1974. Among the most tragic events of early 1979 was the death of the president Mustafa Barzani He died in the United States on March 1, 1979, after four years in exile. His body was returned to Iran on April 4, 1979 and buried in the town of Shino in East Kurdistan.

The situation of regional changes in general and the death of President Mustafa Barzani had brought to the organizations of the PKK, required a broad and urgent meeting, for this purpose, the interim leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, at the beginning of this month In July 1979, he organized a large meeting in Shawana village, north of Shino town in East Kurdistan, where several important decisions were made, the most important of which was his election Massoud Barzani Interim Chairman of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) until his arrest Ninth Congress and its selection Sami Abdulrahman The meeting also discussed the normalization of relations with the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDP) and the maintenance of relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran against the Iraqi regime, provided that the PKK is not willing to interfere in the internal affairs of Kurdistan Massoud Barzani He called for the ninth congress to be held until the summer or autumn of 1979, but Sami Abdul Rahman and another group believed that the congress should be postponed until the spring of 1980 until the new party program was fully incorporated into the refugees and party organizations in Iran. It was finally decided to hold the congress on the appointed date Massoud Barzani He had suggested.

As a result of the meeting, a preparatory committee for the ninth congress of the PKK was appointed, which included:

1. Ali Abdullah
2. Idris Barzani
3. Mohammed Mullah Qadir
4. Rashid Sindhi
5. Arif Tayfoor
6. Karim Sinjar 
7.  Warya Saati

Sources:

1.  Mohsin Dzeyi, Stations of My Life, Part 3 and Final, (Erbil - Mukuriani Printing House - 2015).
2.  Keyhan Newspaper, No. 10751, Tehran, 16 July 1979 AH - 7 July
3.  Bamdad Newspaper, No. 53, Tehran, 17 July 1979 AH. 8 July 1979M.
4.  Sami Abdulrahman, Kurdistan Democratic People's Party: The Revolutionary Alternative in the Kurdish Liberation Movement, Political Statement for the Establishment of the Kurdistan Democratic People's Party Kurdistani, 26-30 July 1981, (without place - without year).
5.  Mohammed Mullah Qadir, Khabatname, Short History of the PKK and the Late Barzani, Third Edition, (Erbil- Aras Printing House- 2012).