Nizamedin Abdulmajid Muhammad Jan Weys, known as Nizamedin Geli, was a jurist and politician. In the year 1962 he became a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In the year 1962 he became the Director of the Batifa (Geli) sub-district in Duhok province. In the year 1984 he became the Mayor of Zakho. After the defeat of the revolution of 1975 in the year 1976 he became a member of the central committee of the Socialist Movement of Kurdistan and was one of the founders of this movement. On Thursday, 27 August 1992 he was elected as a member of the central committee by the representatives of the first congress of the Kurdistan Unification Party. In the year 1993 at the eleventh congress he was elected as a member of the central committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Unified. In the year 2000 he was appointed as the Governor of Kirkuk by the Kurdistan Regional Government.

 

Biography

Nizamedin Abdulmajid was born in the year 1944 in Kirkuk province. In the year 1969 he received a bachelor's degree in law from the University of Basra. In the years (1968 - 1969) he worked as a lawyer in the city of Kirkuk. In the year 1969 he became the Director of the Batifa (Geli) sub-district in Duhok province. In the year 1974 he became the Mayor of Zakho. In the years (1975 - 1976) after the defeat of the September revolution he became a refugee in the Kingdom of Iran. In the years (1976 - 1979) he was expelled by the authorities of the Iraqi government and was forcibly transferred to the city of Samawa in central Iraq. In the year 1981 he completed the Judicial Institute of Baghdad. In the years (1981 - 1991) he was a member of the public prosecution of Iraq. In the year 1986 he obtained a master's degree in law from the University of Baghdad.

 

In the year 1998 he was a lecturer in the Department of Law and Politics at Salahaddin University (Erbil) and in the years (1997 - 2000) he was a teacher of criminal law at the Erbil Police College. He was the Head of the Administrative Development Center Council at the Ministry of Interior of the Kurdistan Region. He was a member of the Kurdistan Bar Association and a judge. On Tuesday, 7 March 2000 he was appointed as the Governor of Kirkuk by the Kurdistan Regional Government. In the year 2001 he was a member of the founding committee of the High Committee for Countering the Arabization of Kurdistan. In the year 2002 he was a representative of the Anfal congress. On 13 January 2003 he became a member of the founding committee of the High Committee for Countering the Arabization of South Kurdistan and later became a member of the executive board of this committee. In the year 2003 he was a member of the Kirkuk Provincial Council on the Kurdistan Democratic Party list. He was proficient in Kurdish, Arabic, and English. On the morning of Sunday, 21 December 2003 he passed away due to a traffic accident and was buried in the Talim Tepe cemetery in the city of Kirkuk.

Work History

Nizamedin Abdulmajid in the year 1958 made contact with the ranks of the Kurdistan Students Union. In the year 1958 he made contact with the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and in the year 1962 he received the honor of membership in the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In the years (1963 - 1964) he was a member of the district committee of the Baghdad High School Students district, affiliated with the fifth branch committee. In the years (1964 - 1968) he was in the ranks of the Kurdistan Students Union and carried out activities at the University of Basra and was a member of the Secretariat Committee of the Kurdistan Students Union. In the years (1964 - 1968) he was the head of the Basra branch of the Kurdistan Students Union. In the years (1964 - 1968) he was the editor-in-chief of the Kurdish students' publications in Basra, which were handwritten and distributed secretly. On 21 March 1968 he participated for one week in the demonstration of the students of the University of Basra against the killing of teachers.

 

In the years (1970 - 1973) he was a member of the organization in the Batifa organization committee, affiliated with the Zakho district committee, affiliated with the first branch committee. In the years (1983 - 1975) he was a member of the district committee of the Zakho district, affiliated with the first branch committee. In the year 1974 he made contact with the ranks of the Peshmerga forces in Badinan. In the years (1975 - 1976) after the defeat of the September revolution he became a refugee in the Kingdom of Iran. In the years (1976 - 1979) he was expelled by the authorities of the Iraqi government and was forcibly transferred to the city of Samawa in central Iraq. In the year 1976 he became a member of the central committee of the Socialist Movement of Kurdistan and was one of the founders of this movement. In the year 196 he was the head of the organizations of the Socialist Movement of Kurdistan in Baghdad and Kifri. In the year 1989 he was detained and tortured for eight months along with his first wife by the Security Agency of Sulaymaniyah. In the years (1991 - 1992) he was the head of the Kirkuk branch of the Socialist Party of Kurdistan. In the year 1992 he was a candidate for the unified list of the Kurdistan National Council. In the year 1992 he was the head of the Kirkuk provincial committee and a member of the Evaluation and Research Agency of the (Kurdistan Unification Party). In the year 1992 he was a representative of the Iraqi National Congress (Pirmam Salahaddin Congress). In the year 1992 he ran as a candidate for the Kurdistan National Council on the unified list.

 

On Thursday, 20 August 1992, he participated in the first Congress of the Kurdistan Unification Party in the city of Erbil. On Thursday, 27 August 1992, he was elected as a member of the central committee by the representatives of the first Congress of the Kurdistan Unification Party. In the year 1993, he was elected as a member of the central committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party by the representatives of the eleventh Congress. In the year 1993, he became the second official of the fourth branch committee. In the year 1993, he was a representative at the Pirmam Congress of the Iraqi opposition. In the year 1994, he was the official of the fourth branch committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Sulaymaniyah. In the year 1994, he was a member of the Kurdistan Relations Bureau. In the years (1997 - 1998), he was the official of the twelfth branch committee in Halabja. In the year 1998, he presented a seminar on laws and courts for the students of the eleventh course of the Kurdistan Democratic Party's Cadre Institute - Unified. For the second time, in the years (1998 - 2000), he worked as a member of the bureau in the Kurdistan Relations Bureau. In the year 1999, he was a representative at the Iraqi National Congress (New York Congress). In the year 1999, he was a representative at the twelfth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Erbil.

 

His works:

 

1 - Dewr al ata'n fî al ahkam / al qanun al cinaî.

2 - President Barzani and peace - 1998.

Sources:

1 - Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.

2 - Suleiman Mustafa Hassan, Kurds and the first experience, (Erbil - Karo Press - 2017) page 279.

3 - Congress, announces the results of the election of the central committee of our party, Birayati newspaper, the organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Unified, issue 1729, Erbil, 27 August 1993 - page 1.

4 - Guide for graduates of the 18 course, (Erbil - Council of Higher Education - Salahaddin University 1999) - page 159.

5 - Al belax al xetamî lil mutemer al tewhîdî lil hizb (yekgirtin) al Kurdistanî, cerîde gel (al şa'ab), al a'dad 52, al sene al aşra, September 1992 - sahife 7.

6 - Herish Kamal Rekani, Tribes of Behdinan 1514 - 1919 (Duhok - University of Duhok - Besikci Center for Humanitarian Research 2019) - page 479.

7 - Husen Said Yusif Shilani, şîire al Gêli dirase fî a'laqatha al ictimaiye we tarîxha al siyasî fî al a'sir al hedîs, (Duhok - Khani Press 2013) - sahife 449.