Biography

Abdulsemed Mihemed Ebdulrehman Ibrahîm, also known as Abdulsemed Bana and Abdulsemed Mencel, was born on March 11, 1913, in the city of Koya in Erbil province, and completed his primary, middle, and high school education in that city.

In 1934, he was appointed as an employee of the Sharia Court of Rusafa in Baghdad, passed away in Baghdad on February 11, 1968, and was buried in the Kekon cemetery in the city of Koya on February 12, 1968. He was fluent in Kurdish, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and English.

Work History

In 1932, he worked politically with the officials of the Al-Ahali newspaper, which had been published in Baghdad on January 2, 1932, and was the only opposition newspaper considered to be run by communists such as Yousef Salman (1901-1949), also known as Fahd, the secretary of the Iraqi Communist Party. In 1933, he was one of the founders of the Youth Association called the Intellectuals Association in the town of Koya in Erbil province. In 1933, he was one of the founders of the Kurdish Youth Memorial Association in Baghdad. In 1934, he joined the Iraqi Communist Party and supported the recognition of Kurds as a nation and the right to Kurdistan's independence. In 1935, he joined the ranks of the Al-Ahali Association. During his struggle within the ranks of the Kurdish Hiwa Party, he published a leaflet named Bilese in Koya in the Kurdish language. In 1941, he was arrested and dismissed from his job due to political activities. At the beginning of 1942, he translated articles for the Kurdish magazine Gelawêj, which was published in Baghdad, to support the women's movement.

In 1946, he was one of the officials of the Kurdish Democratic Party in Sulaymaniyah province. In 1946, part of the publications of the Kurdish Democratic Party was in his handwriting. In the years 1947-1958, he collected aid from Feyli merchants in Baghdad for the Barzani prisoners. On June 18, 1947, through Mihemed Seîd Mîrza Mecîd Hac Ehmed (1904-1959), also known as Seîd Qezaz, he was granted permission as a Sharia scribe on the last night of the lives of the four martyr officers - Izzat Abdulezîz Abdulletîf (1912-1947) known as Izzat Kitanî, Mistefa Mistefa (1912-1947) known as Mistefa Xoşnaw, Xeyrullah Ebdulkerîm Ebdullah (1912-1947) known as Xeyrullah Gurcîzade, and Mihemed Mehmûd Mihemed (1922-1947) known as Mihemed Mahmud Qudsi - to write their final will in his own handwriting. On June 19, 1947, he received the bodies of the four martyr officers from the Baghdad forensic medicine department and sent them to their places.

In the years 1947-1949, he was exiled to the town of Hit in Anbar province in western Iraq. On December 27-29, 1948, he participated in demonstrations in Baghdad against the Iraqi monarchy. In 1949-1958, he was exiled to the Zafraniya farm near Baghdad. In 1953, he was responsible for the media campaign for the election of Mesûd Mihemed to the Iraqi parliament. In 1958, he was a member of the welcoming delegation for President Mustafa Barzani (1903-1979) at Baghdad's Muthanna Airport after his return from the Soviet Union. In 1959, he was a delegate to the second Baghdad conference. In 1959, he was a delegate to the Fourth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iraq. On Saturday, 08.12.1960, he was a member of the fifty-member committee that supported the founders of the open phase of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). In 1960, he was a delegate to the 5th Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in the city of Baghdad. In 1961, his house was the first place of concealment for lawyer Omer Mistefa Mihemed Emîn (1923-1992), known as Omer Debabe, who was a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and had escaped from prison.

In 1963, he was arrested and tortured by the National Guard forces and was later released. In 1963, he was a delegate to the First People's Congress (Koya Congress). In 1963, he was a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party's negotiation delegation with the Iraqi government and went to Baghdad on March 30, 1963. On June 9, he was arrested and tortured by the Iraqi government's intelligence service, and in 1964, after negotiations between the leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and Ebdulselam Mihemed Arif (1921-1966), the President of Iraq, he was released. On June 17, 1965, he was appointed as the Inspector General of Northern Affairs.

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