Biography

Pishtiwan Sadiq Abdullah was born in 1969 in Erbil. His father was Aylul Revolution a Peshmerga in the Safin Force, and in 1968, he was martyred near the town of Pirmam in Erbil Governorate.

In 2005, he received a master's degree, and in 2012, he received a doctorate in public law from Salahaddin University-Erbil, and he is a professor at the aforementioned university.

In 2014, in the eighth cabinet, he became the Minister of Education, and in 2019, in the ninth cabinet, he became the Minister of Endowments and Religious Affairs in the Kurdistan Regional Government. He knows Kurdish, Arabic, and English.

Struggle Record

Pishtiwan Sadiq joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in 1986, and in 1991, he participated in the uprising of Southern Kurdistan, joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces, and struggled in the Korak Force.

On December 16, 1991, he was admitted to the ninth session of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Cadre Institute in the town of Pirmam and successfully completed the course. In 1993, he was appointed as an administrator of the Baranati District Committee, affiliated with the Second Branch Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Erbil - Unified, and in the same year, he was a representative of the Eleventh Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party In 1996, he was made the head of the Baranati District Committee, and in 1998, he was made the head of the Second Erbil District Committee, affiliated with the Second Branch Committee.

In 1999, he was a representative of the Twelfth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the city of Erbil, and from (2000-2004), he was appointed as an administrator of the Second Branch Committee. In 2005, he was a teacher of the terrorism course in the eleventh session of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Cadre Development Institute.

From (2005-2008), he was made the head of the Second Branch Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Erbil, and in 2010, at the Thirteenth Congress he was elected as a member of the Leadership Council of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 2022, at the Fourteenth Congress  he was elected as a member of the Central Committee, and in the first meeting of the Leadership Committee, he was re-elected as a member of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and became the head of the Organization Bureau of Duhok Governorate.

Among his works:                     

  1. The Experience of Kurdistan in Countering Terrorism - 2006.
  2. Terrorism in Light of International Law - 2006, in three volumes.
  3. The American-European-Arab Experience in Combating Terrorism.
  4. Towards Establishing the State of Kurdistan - 2013.
  5. Principles of Human Rights.
Sources:
  1. History of Party Cadre Sessions, From the Mountains to the City, (Erbil - Center for Studies, Research and Party Academy - Rojhalat Printing House - 2019).
  2. History of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Congresses and Conferences (Program and Internal Regulations), Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board, Volume Two, (Erbil - Roxana Printing House - 2021).
  3. Sha'ban Ali Sha'ban, Some Political and Historical Information, Third Edition, (Erbil - Rojhalat Printing House - 2013).
  4. Second Branch, The Second Branch in Half a Century of Struggle, (Erbil - Aras Printing House - 2010).