Biography

Pirut Ahmed Ibrahim, known as Dr. Pirut, was born in Erbil in the Year 1944. He graduated from the Primary Teachers' Institute in the Year 1964. He became the principal of Kory Primary School under the Erbil Education Directorate in the Year 1964. He was a teacher at Barzan Primary School under the Erbil Education Directorate between the years 1968-1970. He headed to the Iranian Kingdom in 1975 after the setback of Aylul Revolution and provided aid to refugees. In 1975, he was the primary official for education and teaching for the South Kurdistan refugee school in the Iranian Kingdom. He obtained a Bachelor's degree in Medicine from the University of Vienna in 1992. In 2014, he was retired from the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is fluent in the languages (Kurdish, Arabic, German, English, Turkish, and Persian).

Struggle Pages

Pirut Ahmed Ibrahim became involved with the Kurdistan Students Union organizations during Aylul Revolution. He was detained for a short period in Erbil in 1963 by the National Guard forces affiliated with the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party and was subjected to torture. He joined the Kurdistan Democratic Party in 1968. On August 5, 1970, he was a Delegate to the Third Congress of the Kurdistan Teachers Union in the village of Nawprdan in Erbil Governorate. On February 5-6, 1973, he was elected Member of the Secretariat Office by the Delegates of the Fourth Congress of the Kurdistan Teachers Union in Erbil, where he read the treasury report. In 1973, he participated with a delegation from the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the World Youth Festival in East Berlin. On February 1-3, 1974, he was a Delegate to the Fifth Congress of the Kurdistan Teachers Union, and was elected by the Delegates of the Fifth Congress as a Member of the Secretariat. In 1974, he joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces of the Aylul Revolution and served as a supervisor in the Information Department (Education and Teaching) for the Aylul Revolution. He survived the bombing by the Iraqi Air Force of the University of Kurdistan in the Qaladze District of Sulaymaniyah Governorate, where he was present. He took refuge in the Republic of Austria in 1976. He became involved with the Kurdish Students Association in Europe (K.S.S.E). In 1976, he was elected Member of the Secretariat Office of the Association by the Delegates of the Sixteenth Congress of the Kurdish Students Association in Europe. From 1976-1991, he was a representative for President Masoud Barzani in the Austrian capital, Vienna. In 1976, he was chosen as a branch member of the Sixth Branch Committee in Europe by the Provisional Leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. On the night of January 8, 1979, he was wounded as a result of a shooting operation by an Iraqi intelligence team that arrived in the city of Vienna, the goal of which was to assassinate President Masoud Barzani. From 1979-1989, he was a Member of the Secretariat Office of the Kurdish Students Association in Europe. In 1985, he participated as a Delegate of the Kurdistan Democratic Youth Union in the World Youth Festival in Moscow. In 1986, he visited the Libyan Jamahiriya twice, accompanied by Idris Mustafa Sheikh Muhammad (1944-1987), known as Idris Barzani. In Vienna, he provided assistance to victims of chemical weapons in South Kurdistan in 1988. On October 14-15, 1989, he participated in the First World Congress of Kurds in Paris: Human Rights and Political Identity, which was organized by the Kurdish Institute in Paris in cooperation with the France Liberté Foundation, chaired by Mrs. Danielle Mitterrand. On December 12, 1989, he was elected Member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party by the Delegates of the Tenth Congress. On January 13, 1990, he was appointed Member of the European Relations Committee. At the beginning of August 1990, he was a Delegate for the Kurdistan Democratic Party and a member of the Kurdistan Front delegation to visit Yasser Arafat (1929-2004) in Tunisia. In 1991, he was responsible for the Rania-Qaladze axis in Sulaymaniyah Governorate during the operations of the Kurdistan Front Peshmerga forces and the uprising of South Kurdistan. On July 20, 1991, he was a member of the committee overseeing the establishment of the Kurdistan Teachers Union. In 1973, he was a representative of the Kurdistan Regional Government in the Republic of Austria. In 1993, he was a Delegate to the Eleventh Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party-Unified in the city of Erbil. In 1997, he participated as a representative of the Kurdistan Democratic Party with the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in the Ankara and Paris meetings. On Friday, August 15, 1997, he published an article in Khabat newspaper, the mouthpiece of the Kurdistan Democratic Party-Unified. In 1999, he was a Delegate to the Twelfth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the city of Erbil. In the years 1999-2004, he held the Position of the primary official for the Kurdistan Democratic Party representation in the capital of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Tehran. In mid-February 2000, he participated as a representative of the Party in Tehran, accompanied by a Kurdistan Democratic Party delegation, in a visit to officials in the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran and a meeting with the Chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council. In early August 2000, he accompanied a Kurdistan Democratic Party delegation headed by Nechirvan Idris Mustafa, known as Nechirvan Barzani, to meet with officials of the Islamic Republic of Iran. In the years 1999-2004, he held the Position of Kurdistan Democratic Party representative in the city of Tehran. In 2003, he participated in the Iraqi opposition conference in the capital of the United Kingdom, London. In 2005, he participated as a representative of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Socialist International conference in South Africa. On September 13, 2009, he was appointed by republican decree as an ambassador in the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs, representing the Kurdistan Democratic Party quota. On June 20, 2010, he was appointed by republican decree as Ambassador of the Republic of Iraq to the Swiss Confederation and remained in the Position until 2014. In 2010, he was responsible for the Preparatory Committee for the Thirteenth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. On December 15, 201

0, he was awarded the Immortal Barzani Medal by President Masoud Barzani in recognition of his struggle in the Aylul and Gulan revolutions, the uprising of South Kurdistan, and the stage of pride and glory.   

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