Politician Najmadin Said Ali, known as Najmadin Yusifi, joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Year 1958 and joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces in Year 1961. In Year 1964, by the decision of the Kurdistan Revolution Leadership Council, he became the Qaimaqam of Amadiya. In 1966, he was a member of the Oversight and Follow-up Committee at the Seventh Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and in Year 1975, he became a refugee in the country of Iran. In Year 1979, at the 9th Congress, he was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

Biography

Najmadin Said was born in 1941 in Duhok. In 1959, he received his diploma from the Abu Ghraib Agricultural Institute in the city of Baghdad. In 1964, he was appointed as the Qaimaqam of Amadiya by the Executive Office of the Revolution Leadership Council in Iraqi Kurdistan. In 1975, he became a refugee in the state of Iran. In 2000, he was the head of the Association for the Settlement of Martyrs' Families in Duhok. During the years (2014-2017), he worked in the war against ISIS by collecting aid for the Peshmerga and the displaced. He passed away on February 12, 2018, and was buried in the city of Duhok. He was proficient in the Kurdish, Arabic, and Persian languages.

Struggle Record

 Najmadin Said joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Year 1958 and joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces in Year 1961. In Year 1962, he was established as a cadre in the liberated areas of the Aylul Revolution and in 1963, he was made a member of the district in the Amadiya District Committee, and in Year 1964, he was made an administrator of the Amadiya District Committee affiliated with the First Branch Committee. In 1964, he was a member of the preparatory committee and a delegate of the Sixth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In the same year, he was made a member of the First Branch Committee and head of the Amadiya District Committee.

During the years (1968-1969), he was a student in the first course of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Cadre Training School in the village of Choman, affiliated with Erbil Governorate. During the years (1970-1975), he was an administrator of the First Branch.

In Year 1979, he became a member of the Reorganization Committee of the Provisional Leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and in the same year, he became a member of the preparatory committee for the 9th Congress and in that congress, he was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and he was entrusted with the task of supervising the affairs of the displaced in the Ziwa camp and the head of the guards of the Political Bureau headquarters.

In Year 1981, he wrote a book in Arabic titled (Thawrat Aylul al-Majida). In Year 1985, he was made head of the First Branch Committee. In 1991, he was a member of the Supervisory Committee of the Peshmerga forces for the liberation of the city of Duhok. In 1992, he was a candidate of the Kurdistan Democratic Party for the election of the first term of the Kurdistan National Assembly.

 In 1996, because of his service in the Aylul Revolution، Gulan Revolution and the Uprising of Southern Kurdistan and the stage of sovereignty, during the party's Golden Jubilee, by President Masoud Barzani, he was awarded the Barzani the Immortal Medal.

 At the beginning of 1999, he was appointed as a member of the preparatory committee for the Twelfth Congress of the party, and later as a member of the Supervisory Committee for the Twelfth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 2010, he was a delegate of the Thirteenth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party was.

Among his works:

1- Thawrat Aylul al-Majida

Sources:
  1. Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.
  2. Arnold Wilson, The Iraqi Revolution, translated and commented by Ja'far al-Khayyat, (Beirut - Dar al-Kutub Press - 1971 AD).
  3. Jamal Mortka, The Mountain Writes Itself, (Erbil - Hivi Press - 2012 AD).
  4. Hamid Gawhari, The Barzani Medal is the Highest Honor Award, Volume One, (Erbil - Barzani Charity Foundation - Haji Hashim Press - 2014 AD).
  5. Habib Muhammad Karim, History of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iraq (in main stations) 1946-1993, (Duhok - Khabat Press - 1998 AD).
  6. Rajab Jamil Habib, Amadiya (Al-Amadiya) 1921-1975 A Study in Political History, (Duhok - Printing and Publishing Directorate in Duhok - Hawar Press - 2012 AD).
  7. Sheikh Musa Wermeli, The Aylul Revolution in the Amadiya Region, (Duhok - Zana Press - 2005 AD).
  8. Ali Sinjari, The Kurdish Issue and the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in Iraq, Part Three, (Duhok - Khani Press - 2012 AD).
  9. Karwan Muhammad Sinu Tovi, Najmadin Yusifi, Peshmerga of both the Aylul and Gulan Revolutions, Khabat Newspaper, organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Issue 5692, Erbil, Tuesday, February 12, 2019 AD.
  10. Karwan Muhammad Sinu Tovi, Najmadin Yusifi passes away, Khabat Newspaper, organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Issue 5453, Erbil, Wednesday, February 14, 2018 AD.