Biography

Dr. Jirjis Hassan Abdullah, known as Dr. Jirjis, was born in 1944 in the village of Khans, affiliated with the Sheikhan District in the Mosul Governorate, where he completed his primary, middle, and high school education. In 1967, he was admitted to the College of Arts at the University of Mosul. In 1971, he headed to the Soviet Union for studies and resigned from his membership in the Secretariat of the Kurdistan Students Union. Later, he went to the Republic of Austria and returned to Eastern Kurdistan in the Year 1979. From (1996-1999), he was the Minister of Education of the Kurdistan Regional Government. He passed away in the Year 2024 due to Illness. He was proficient in Kurdish, Arabic, Russian, German, and Persian languages.

Struggle History

In the Year 1967, he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Students Union. On July 15, 1970, he was elected by the congress representatives as the Deputy President of the Kurdistan Students Union (Sixth Congress). In 1971, he was a member of the Mosul Regional Committee of the Nineveh Branch of the Kurdistan Students Union. In the Year 1979, he was elected by the congress representatives as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (Ninth Congress). From (1980-1985), he was the head of the Branch 1 Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 1980, jointly with the forces of the Iraqi Communist Party, he commanded the Begova battle on the border of the Duhok Governorate. On July 16, 1985, he was appointed as a member of the Organization Department and a member of the Relations Department. In 1983, he was elected by the members of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party as a member of the Political Bureau. In the Year 1985, he was appointed as the head of the Branch 1 Committee in the twelfth staff. At the end of the Year 1985, in the eighth session of the Cadre Institute of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the village of Rajan in Eastern Kurdistan, he was a teacher of "History of the Kurdish Liberation Movement in the Twentieth Century."

In 1986, he was a member of the Central Inspection Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 1988, as a leader, he participated in the Khwakurk epic on the border of the Erbil Governorate against the offensive of the Iraqi Army's ground forces. In 1989, he was elected by the congress representatives as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (Tenth Congress). In 1989, in the first meeting of the Central Committee, he was elected as a member of the Political Bureau. On January 13, 1990, he was appointed as the head of the Finance Committee. At the beginning of 1992, in the twenty-fifth staff of the Branch 2 Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, he was appointed to the Branch Supervisory Committee. On March 19, he participated in the meeting of the Kurdistan Front for the purpose of determining the time of the Kurdistan National Assembly elections and the economic and security Situation of Southern Kurdistan.

At the beginning of 1992, representing the Kurdistan Democratic Party, he participated in the meeting of the Kurdistan Front for the purpose of establishing the High Supervisory Committee for the Kurdistan National Assembly elections. In the middle of 1992, he was a candidate of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (Yellow List) for the Kurdistan National Assembly. On Wednesday, August 11, 1993, he published an article in Khabat newspaper, the organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 1993, he was the licensee of the Alternative magazine. In 1993, he was elected by the congress representatives as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Unified (Eleventh Congress). In 1993, in the first meeting of the Central Committee, he was elected as a member of the Political Bureau. In 1994, he was the licensee of the Kadir magazine (second cycle), which was a theoretical magazine of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Unified. On May 4, 1994, in the joint meeting of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, he signed the ceasefire and the normalization of the Situation of Southern Kurdistan. On Wednesday, November 9, 1994, at the secretariat headquarters of the lawyer Jalal Hisameddin Nuredin (1933-2017), Known as Jalal Talabani, in the city of Erbil, he attended the joint meeting of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Unified and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan for the purpose of ending the tensions between the two parties.

On February 8, 1996, for the purpose of participating in the seventeenth anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Revolution of Iran, he visited the city of Tehran as the head of the delegation of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Unified. On May 27, 1996, accompanied by the engineer Muhammad Mahmud Abdulrahman (1933-2004), Known as Sami Abdulrahman  in the town of Pirmam, affiliated with the Erbil Governorate, he received a delegation from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. On Friday, January 8, 1999, in Pirmam, accompanied by President Masoud Barzani, he received Jalal Talabani and the accompanying delegation. In the Year 1999, he was elected by the congress representatives as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (Eleventh Congress). In 2000, he was made the head of the Board of Financial Audit of the Kurdistan Regional Government (fourth cycle). In 2005, he was appointed as a member of the Central Inspection and Supervision Board of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 2010, he was a representative of the Thirteenth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the city of Erbil.

Among his works:
  1. Turkey in American Strategy after the Fall of the Shah‌ - 1990.
  2. Kurdistan of Iraq in Flames - 1984, translation.
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  19. The Honorable Minister of Education Met with a Delegation from the Secretariat of Our Union, Zang Newspaper, Kurdistan Students Union, No. 4, Second Round, Erbil, Salahaddin University Printing House, Sunday, November 7, 1998, p. 1.
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  41. Fazladin Ahmed Nerwayi, Displacement is the experience of people who have lived for years far from their people and country, (Duhok - Khani Printing House - 2008), p. 85.
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