Jawhar Namiq Salim Ismail, in Year 1964 joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, in 1976 was elected as a member of the Provisional Leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (Berlin Conference), in 1989 was elected by the Congress representatives as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (Tenth Congress), on June 4, 1992 was elected as the first Speaker of the Kurdistan National Assembly (First Term), in 2003 resigned from the position of Secretary of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party .

Biography

Jawhar Namiq Salim Ismail, Known as Salim, Salim Sorani, Salim Qiyada, Fuad and the Kurdish Guevara, was born in 1945 in the Garmian region, in 1956 he started his primary education in the town of Khanaqin, the center of the Garmsir region, in 1958 his family moved to the city of Baghdad, in 1964 he finished his middle school in the city of Baghdad, in 1964 he was appointed as an employee in the Capital Secretariat in the Karkh side of the city of Baghdad, in 1968 he was transferred to the Warehouse and Fuels Department, in 1968 he finished his high school, scientific branch, evening classes in the city of Baghdad, in 1968 he was admitted to the College of Administration and Economics, Department of Economics, at the evening Al-Mustansiriya University in Baghdad, in 1972 he received his bachelor's degree from the same university.

In 1975 after the collapse of the Aylul Revolution he became a refugee in the Kingdom of Iran, in February 1981 he moved to the Kingdom of Sweden as a refugee, during the years (1980-1981) he completed a Swedish language learning course, in 1989 due to his broken leg and for further treatment he returned to the Kingdom of Sweden, in March 1992 he married the engineer Nargiz Osman Habib.

On February 15, 2011, after falling ill, he went to the Kingdom of Sweden for treatment of his illness and at the Karolinska Hospital, after examinations, it was discovered that he had liver cancer, on the morning of Tuesday, March 22, 2011, due to the illness, he passed away in the Kingdom of Sweden, on March 24, 2011, his body was returned to the homeland via Erbil Airport and was received by President Masoud Barzani and on March 25, 2011, he was buried in his hometown in the village of Barlut in the Garmian region. He was an expert in the arts of painting and wood carving, a poet, a good singer, and an expert in Kurdish Maqams. He was proficient in Kurdish, Arabic, Swedish, Persian, and English languages.

Struggle Record

In Year 1964 he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, in 1968 he was a member of the Blise organization committee for organizing university and institute students in the city of Baghdad of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and supervised the organization of evening students at Al-Mustansiriya University, in 1972 at the request of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party he joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces and moved his family to the town of Choman, Erbil Governorate, in 1972 he was the Assistant Director of the Administration of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the village of Nawprdan, Erbil Governorate, in 1973 he worked in the Media Department of the Kurdistan Democratic Party , in 1973 he was made an administrator of the Third Branch Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and started working as the head of the Protection Department, in 1973 he was a teacher of the course on social change and progress in the fourth session of the Cadre Training School of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the village of Nawprdan, Erbil Governorate.

In early April 1975, he was tasked by Masoud Barzani to make preparations for the Gulan Revolution, in late April 1975, he was invited by Masoud Barzani along with four other personalities to participate in the first meeting of the Provisional Leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party outside the town of Naqada in Eastern Kurdistan for the purpose of continuing resistance and struggle, in the autumn of 1975 in the city of Tehran under the supervision of Masoud Barzani and in the presence of Arif Tayfur, Muhammad Reza, and the lawyer Karim Sultan, Known as Karim Shingali they drafted the plan for the Gulan Revolution , in 1975 after being exposed by the Iranian SAVAK agency, in the company of Karim Shingali for the purpose of continuing the struggle, he smuggled himself into Northern Kurdistan and with the help of Kurdish patriots and the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Turkey, he reached Southern Kurdistan and in the ranks of the Peshmerga of the Provisional Leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party he was known by the names Salim, Salim Sorani, and Salim Qiyada, he also used the name Fuad when writing letters to Masoud Barzani and the Peshmerga of the Provisional Leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party called him (the Kurdish Guevara).

 In 1976 he was elected as a member of the Provisional Leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (Berlin Conference) selected, in the year 1976 in the provisional leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party he was appointed as the official in charge of Region One in the Badinan area, on 15 November 1977 he participated in the broad Bidwal meeting of the provisional leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party for the reorganization of the Peshmerga forces and the reactivation of the organizations, in the year 1979 he Kurdistan Democratic Party distanced himself.

In the year 1981 he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic People's Party (People's Party), from 26 to 30 July 1981 he participated in the First Congress of the Democratic People's Party and after nominating himself he was elected by the congress representatives as a member of the Central Committee, but later he backtracked from this party, after returning to the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the year 1989 by the congress representatives as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Twelfth Congress he was elected, on 13 January 1990 he was appointed as the official of the Central Organization Department of the Kurdistan Democratic Party . In the year 1991 in the ninth session of the Cadre Institute of the Kurdistan Democratic Party he presented a seminar on negotiations and autonomy to the students of the session in the town of Pirmam, affiliated with Erbil Governorate, on 7 April 1992 as a representative of the Kurdistan Democratic Party he participated in the broad Pirmam meeting of the Kurdistan Front for the purpose of preparation for the election process of the Kurdistan National Assembly, on 4 June 1992 by the votes of the voters of the Kurdistan Region on the list of the Kurdistan Democratic Party he was elected as a member of the Kurdistan National Assembly (first term), on 4 June 1992 he was elected as the first Speaker of the Kurdistan National Assembly (first term). 

On Wednesday, 2 September 1992, in Khabat newspaper, the organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party he published an article, in the year 1993 as the licensee of Brayati newspaper, the organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party he received an official license from the Ministry of Culture of the Kurdistan Regional Government, on Thursday, 1 July 1993 he attended the graduation ceremony of the twelfth session of Salahaddin University in the city of Erbil, in the year 1993 by the congress representatives as a member of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Unified, the Eleventh Congress he was elected, in the month of December 1993 he was appointed as the first official of the Central Bureau of Studies and Research of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Unified, and until the end of his work 35 books and pamphlets by authors in all fields were printed in several different languages, in the year 1994 he presented a lecture on parliament to the students of the advanced rapid session in the town of Pirmam.

On 4 May 1994 in a joint meeting of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan he signed a ceasefire and the normalization of the situation in Southern Kurdistan, on Monday, 25 October 1994 in the town of Qalachwalan, affiliated with Sulaymaniyah Governorate, he attended the joint meeting of the committee for the normalization of the tense situation in the governorates of Sulaymaniyah - Kirkuk, on Monday, 18 December 1994 in Qalachwalan he participated in the meeting of the committee for the normalization of Sulaymaniyah Governorate, from 23 December 1994 to 28 March 1995 he, along with 58 members of the Kurdistan National Assembly from all lists, held a sit-in in the hall of the Kurdistan National Assembly to condemn the civil war, on 30 December 1994 his house in the city of Erbil was looted by armed men of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan.

 In the year 1997 he was the licensee of the sports newspaper Brayati, in the month of May 1998 he read a speech at the Cairo Conference for Arab-Kurdish Dialogue, in the year 1999 by the congress representatives as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Twelfth Congress he was elected, in the year 1999 in the first meeting of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party he was elected as a member of the Political Bureau, from 14 to 16 December 2002 at the London Conference he was elected by the representatives of the Iraqi opposition conference as a member of the follow-up and coordination committee, on Monday, 20 January 2003, accompanying President Masoud Barzani he welcomed the French Senator Imri Demontiskio, on Wednesday, 2 April 2003, accompanying President Masoud Barzani he participated in the Dukan meeting for the joint leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan for the purpose of preparing for the liberation phase of Iraq, in the spring of 2003 he resigned from the position of Secretary of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party .

Among his works:

  1. Is federalism implemented as a political option in Iraq..? - 2005.

  2. Kurds in the game of legal texts, a scrutiny of the permanent constitution of (Iraq) - (First edition - 2007), (Second edition - 2011).

  3. The Kurdish experience in its pendulum movement - 2011.

Sources: 

  1. Bahram Waladbeigi, Research on the Aspirations of the Kurdish Nation, Ashti Newspaper, Issue 28, Second Year, Tehran, Monday, 2 Khordad 1384 SH, pp. 1, 3.

  2. Bwar Nuredin, Kurds and Kurdistan, their bibliography and index in Kurdish books, Volume Two, Part Three, (Tehran - Tehran Printing House - 2016 AD), pp. 16, 343.

  3. Tariq Karezi, Jawhar Namiq Salim 1945 - 2011, Omar Ali Sharif, 100 Notable Figures of Kirkuk and Garmian, (Sulaymaniyah - Karo Printing House - 2019 AD), pp. 82 - 87.

  4. Jawhar Namiq Salim, Kurds in the game of legal texts, Volume Two, Second Edition, (Erbil - Aras Printing and Publishing House - 2011 AD), pp. 1 - 548.

  5. Jawhar Namiq Salim, The Kurdish experience in its pendulum movement, Volume Three, (Erbil - Aras Printing and Publishing House - Aras Printing House - 2011 AD), pp. 1 - 552.

  6. Jawhar Namiq Salim, The role of the Kurdistan Front in the post-election phase, Khabat Newspaper, organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Issue 636, Wednesday, 2 September 1992 AD, p. 2. 

  7. Habib Muhammad Karim, History of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iraq (in key stations) 1946 - 1993, (Duhok - Khabat Printing House - 1998 AD), pp. 147, 152, 174, 182.

  8. Hassan Latif Al-Zubaidi, Encyclopedia of Iraqi Parties, (Beirut - Al-Aref Institution for Publications - 2007 AD), pp. 341, 555.

  9. Sami Shorsh, Kurdistan and the Kurds, Second Edition, (Erbil - Rojhalat Printing House - 2019 AD), p. 145.

  10. Suleiman Mustafa Hassan, Kurd and the First Experience, (Erbil - Karo Printing House - 2017), pp. 31, 33, 75, 80, 271.

  11. Sayyid Ali Mojani, Solmaz Sedghi, Elaheh Nemati..., Dictionary of Men and Contemporary Families of Iraq, (Tehran - Ezam Publishing - 1392 SH), p. 342. 

  12. Sha'ban Ali Sha'ban, Some Political and Historical Information, 3rd edition, (Erbil - Rojhalat Printing House - 2013), pp. 126, 147-148.

  13. Shwan Hussein Shink Balaki, Jawhar Namiq Salim 1946-2011 Life, Works, and Political Role, Soran University Faculty of Arts, 2016, (Unpublished Master's Thesis), pp. 7, 10-13, 15-19, 22, 24, 26, 29-30, 36-39, 41, 44-45, 48, 51, 55-56, 58, 72, 80, 85, 89, 110, 114-115, 127, 130, 145-146, 152.

  14. Adnan al-Mufti, The Arab-Kurdish Dialogue, (Cairo - Madbouly Library - 1999), p. 174.

  15. Ali Sinjari, The Kurdish Issue and the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in Iraq, Part Three, (Duhok - Khani Printing House - 2012), pp. 168-170. 

  16. Ammar Abbas Mahmoud, The Kurdish Issue: The Problem of State Building, (Cairo - Al-Arabi for Publishing and Distribution - 2016), p. 79.

  17. Farhad Awn, My Journalistic Experience, (Erbil - Rojhalat Printing House - 2011), pp. 90, 207.

  18. Karwan Mahwi, Our Party's Congresses Kurdistan Democratic Party, Shrovey Magazine, Central Office of Studies and Research, Issue 14, Erbil, Haji Hashim Printing House, Autumn 2010, p. 20.

  19. Muhammad Malla Qadir, Struggle Record: A Brief History of the Party and the Culture of the Immortal Barzani, 2nd edition, (Erbil - Aras Printing and Publishing House - 2007), p. 97. 

  20. Muhammad Malla Qadir, The Story of the Immortals, (Erbil - Haji Hashim Printing House - 2014), pp. 231-236.

  21. Mahmoud Muhammad, Vision: Observations, Opinions, and Interpretations, Volume One, (Erbil - Rojhalat Printing House - 2016), p. 248.

  22. Malla Shem Hamdi Haji Omari, How Did the Beginning of the New Revolution of 1976 Start?!, 2nd edition, (Erbil - Haji Hashim Printing House - 2013), p. 52.

  23. Malla Faruq Shawani, All Kurds, Volume One, (Erbil - Roshinbiri Printing House - 1997), p. 106.

  24. Hawzhin Hamarashid and Handren Sherzad, At the (10th) Congress of the Kurdistan Students Union, Brayati Newspaper, Organ of Kurdistan Democratic Party, Issue 3446, Erbil, Sunday, July 29, 2001, p. 1.

  25. Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Kurdistan National Assembly of Iraq, Kurdistan National Assembly of Iraq Protocols - 1999, Volume Twenty-Two, (Erbil - Ministry of Education Printing House - 1999), pp. 715, 720.