Biography

Omer Mustafa was born in 1923 in the Qelat neighborhood in the city of Koya in Erbil province, he completed his primary and secondary education in Koya and the college of law in Baghdad (1946-1951).

Career

Omer Mustafa joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in 1948 in Baghdad, in 1951 in Baghdad at the second secret congress of the party and by the votes of the congress representatives he was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), in the same year he was imprisoned due to political activities, but was released in a short time.

In 1953 and in the Third Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party he was elected by the congress representatives as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and later became a member of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, in 1956 he was appointed as a member of the Central Committee, in 1959 he was elected by the representatives of the fourth congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) as a member of the Central Committee of the Party.

He is one of the 60-person committee who requested the official license for the Kurdistan Democratic Party for the phase of open work, in 1960, in the Fifth Congress, by the votes of the congress representatives he became a member of the central committee and later a member of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), in 1961 he was the representative of the Political Bureau of the KDP to President Mustafa Barzani to inform him of the Iraqi government's attack on Kurdistan and to convey the position of the Political Bureau on this matter.

In 1962 he participated in the expanded meeting of Ewdalan of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and in the same year he participated in the battle of Rayat Barracks, in 1963 he was appointed by the revolution leadership to a high position in the Iraqi government, in 1963 he participated in The General Congress of Koya and was later appointed as a member of the KDP negotiation delegation with the Iraqi government, he was one of the organizers of the Mawet meeting which took place in April 1964, also in 1964 he joined the Jalal Talabani-Ibrahim Ahmad group and in the sixth congress he was expelled from the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) by the majority of the votes of the congress representatives, on January 29, 1992 he passed away in Sulaymaniyah and was buried in Koya. He knew Arabic and English well.

Reference:

-Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.