Engineer and politician Ahmed Adhem Abduljabar Abdulrahman, known as Ahmed Kani and Ahmed Doghremêçî, joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in 1991 after the uprising in South Kurdistan. He was a delegate to the Eleventh Congress 1993 and the Twelfth Congress 1999, and in 2010 at the Thirteenth Congress was elected a member of the Leadership Council of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

Biography

Ahmed Kani was born in Erbil in 1960 and was a descendant of the poet and translator Abduljabar Kani (1897–1957). He obtained a master's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Mosul in 1985, became a lecturer at the Erbil Technical Institute in 1990, and in 2004 became dean of the Erbil Technical Institute. He is proficient in Kurdish, Arabic, Turkmen, and English.

Political struggle

In 1991, after the uprising in South Kurdistan, he joined the Kurdistan Democratic Party. He was a delegate to the Eleventh Congress in 1993 and the Twelfth Congress in 1999, and in 2010 at the Thirteenth Congress was elected a member of the Leadership Council of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

In 1994 he became head of the Salahaddin University District Committee within the Party's Second Branch. During 1995–2005 he was appointed branch committee administrator in Erbil's Second Branch. In 2007 he became head of the Party's Makhmur Twenty-Third Branch Committee, and in 2017 he became head of Erbil's Second Branch Committee under the Leadership Council of Erbil Governorate.

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