Biography

Aza Mahmud Ahmed was born in 1948 in Sulaymaniyah. In 1967, he completed his high school education in the scientific stream in the city of Baghdad and was admitted to the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Technology in Baghdad. He obtained his bachelor's degree in 1972 and in 1976 he received his master's degree in the Mechanical Department at Aston College (astun) in the United Kingdom.

In 2003, he was appointed as an advisor to the Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government. In 2004, he was the head of the office of the Vice President of Iraq, Dr. Roj Shaways. He is proficient in Kurdish, Arabic, English, Swedish, and Persian.

Struggle Record

Aza Mahmud Ahmed joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Students Union in 1963 and in the Year 1965 he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In January 1972, at the 7th Congress of the Kurdistan Students Union, he was elected as a member of the General Administrative Council and in the border area of the Fifth Branch Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party he was assigned tasks. At the beginning of 1974, with the start of the tension between the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Ba'ath Party, he joined the Peshmerga forces of the Aylul Revolution and served in the surface-to-air missile unit of the Kurdistan Army. He participated in the battles of Makok, Beshe, and Zozki against the Iraqi army and was wounded. In 1975, after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution, he went to the country of Iran as a refugee, and in the same year, he went to the United Kingdom as a refugee.

In 1976, at the Berlin Conference, he was a member of the provisional leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. At the end of 1977, under the secret name Hajar, he participated in the Gulan Revolution in the border area of Duhok Governorate. In 1978, he was the political-military official of the Sulaymaniyah-Khanaqin border area for the provisional leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and participated in and commanded the battles of Hawraman and Penjwen.

In the Year 1979, at the 9th Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, he did not nominate himself for the leadership and distanced himself from the organizations of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In the same year, he went to the country of Sweden as a refugee.

After distancing himself from the Kurdistan Democratic Party, he joined the People's Party and was elected as a member of the Central Committee and later as a member of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic People's Party at the first (1981) and second (1989) congresses of the People's Party.

In 1993, after the unification of the People's Party and the Kurdistan Democratic Party, he once again joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Unified and was a representative at the congresses of the 12th 1999 and 13th 2010 of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 2003, he was appointed as an advisor to the Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government, and in 2004, he was the head of the office of the Vice President of Iraq, Dr. Roj Shaways.

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