Lawyer and politician Rashid Ismail Agha, known as Rashid Bajalan, in the late thirties and forties as a member, founder, and leader participated in several associations and parties such as the Brotherhood Association and the Youth Association in the city of Baghdad, the Darkar Association in Khanaqin, the Hiwa Party of Kurdistan in the city of Kirkuk, and the Rizgari Kurd Party. In the Year 1946, he participated in the second Congress of the Rizgari Kurd Party in the city of Baghdad and voted for its dissolution so that the Rizgari Kurd Party would join the ranks of Kurdistan Democratic Party, in the Year 1946 and in the first Congress he was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. He passed away on February 16, 2001, in the city of Baghdad.

Biography

Rashid Ismail Agha was born in the Year 1920 in the city of Diyala. In the Year 1940, he began his studies in the Law Department at the College of Law in Baghdad, and in the Year 1944, he obtained his bachelor's degree. He worked as a lawyer and judge and became a member of the Iraqi Bar Association. In the Year 1958, he was appointed to the Iraqi Ministry of Agrarian Reform, and later, on February 14, 1960, he was appointed as a judge. He retired on June 30, 1983, and his last work was as a member of the History and Heritage Committee at the Kurdish Academy of the Iraqi Scientific Academy.

 He passed away on February 16, 2001, in the city of Baghdad and was laid to rest there in the Karkh cemetery. He was proficient in Kurdish, Turkish, Arabic, Persian, and English languages.

Struggle Record

In the late thirties and forties as a member, founder, and leader, he participated in several associations and parties such as the Brotherhood Association and the Youth Association in the city of Baghdad, the Darkar Association in Khanaqin, the Hiwa Party of Kurdistan in the city of Kirkuk, and the Rizgari Kurd Party. In the Year 1944, he participated in the Kalar Congress of the Hiwa Party of Kurdistan to support the Second Barzan Revolution (1943-1945).

In the Year 1946, in the company of Mirhaj Ahmed Tahir (1911-1988), known as Mirhaj Akrayi, he met with Qazi Muhammad, the President of the Republic of Kurdistan, in the city of Mahabad. In the Year 1948, he was the organizer of the bread protesters in the town of Khanaqin, and in this protest, they supported the imprisoned Barzanis, for which he was imprisoned by the Iraqi authorities on charges of inciting people to protest.

In the Year 1946, he represented the second Congress of the Rizgari Kurd Party in the city of Baghdad and voted for its dissolution so that the Rizgari Kurd Party would join the ranks of Kurdistan Democratic Party and in the same year and in the first Party Congress he was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. He participated in the  fourth 1959 and fifth 1960 Congresses. In the Year 1963, he was imprisoned and tortured by the National Guard (Al-Haras al-Qawmi) on charges of Kurdish nationalism.

Among his works:

  1. Jami' al-Tawabi' - 2014.
Sources:
  1. Prepared by: Karwan Osman Khayat, Rashid Ismail Bajalan, Jami' al-Tawabi', (Sulaymaniyah - General Directorate of Culture and Art of Garmian - Gunj Press - 2014).
  2. History of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Congress and Conference (Program and Internal Regulations), Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board, Volume One, (Erbil - Roxana Press - 2021).
  3. Shadan Khanaqini, Prominent Personality of Khanaqin Rashid Bajalan, Sirwan Magazine, Branch 15 of Khanaqin of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Issue 4, Autumn 2008.
  4. Mahdi Muhammad Qadir, Political Developments in Iraqi Kurdistan 1945 - 1958, (Sulaymaniyah - Kurdistan Center for Strategic Studies - 2005).
  5. Omar Ali Sharif, Rashid Bajalan 1920 - 2001, 100 Prominent Figures of Kirkuk and Garmian, (Sulaymaniyah - Karo Press - 2019).
  6. Shwan Muhammad Amin Taha Khoshnaw, Erbil Between the Years 1963 - 1970, A Historical Study of the Political Situation, (Erbil - Salahaddin University Press - 2016).
  7. Bahar Rashid Bajalan, Rashid Bajalan 1920 - 2001, An Old Fighter for Kurdish Nationalism, (Sulaymaniyah - Zhian Center - Shvan Press - 2007).
  8. Habib Muhammad Karim, History of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iraq (In Key Milestones) 1946 - 1993, (Duhok - Khabat Press - 1998).
  9. Abdulrazzaq Mutlaq al-Fahd, Political Parties in Iraq and Their Role in the National and Nationalist Movement 1934 - 1958, (Beirut - Publications for Distribution and Publishing Company - 2011).
  10. Ali Abdullah, History of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iraq until the convening of the Third Congress, (No place - September 1968).
  11. Osman Sangasari, A Part of the Life of the Immortal Leaders of Kurdistan, (Sulaymaniyah - Sima Press - 2014).
  12. Masoud Barzani, Barzani and the Kurdish Liberation Movement, Volume One, Second Edition, (Beirut - Kawa for Kurdish Culture - 1997).