Sabah Baytulla Shukri, known as Sabah Baytulla, was born on 28 November 1957 in the city of Aqrah. He completed primary and middle school in the same city and graduated from the Duhok Teachers' Institute. In 1975 he became displaced to Iran and settled in Ziwa Camp, where he worked as a teacher in 1975. In 1976 he was transferred to Shahroud in Semnan Governorate, and in 1976 was transferred again to Tabriz, Sardrud District. In 1979, after the fall of Iran's monarchy, he returned to Naqadeh. In 1991, after the uprising, he returned to the Kurdistan Region. He is married and has 7 children, and speaks Arabic and Persian fluently.
Struggle RecordIn 1974 he joined the revolution with his family. In 1979 he became head of the Democratic Youth Union of Kurdistan in Naqadeh, and in mid-1980 became an announcer at the Voice of Kurdistan Radio. In 1976 he began organizing the party in Shahroud, Semnan Governorate, with Mullah Abbas Delzi, and in 1976 carried out his party assignment in Tabriz, Sardrud District, with Bahram Aziz Goran. In mid-1980 he became an announcer at the Voice of Kurdistan Radio.
In 1993 he became director of Branch 9 in Aqrah; in 1994 he became a member of the Culture and Media Office and director of the Voice of Kurdistan in Pirmam; and on 28 October 1999 he became deputy head of Aqrah Branch 9. In 2009 he became a member of the Kurdistan Parliament in its third term. In 2014 he spent two and a half years as a volunteer Peshmerga on the Nimrud front in the war against ISIS terrorists. On 22 February 2017 he became head of Aqrah Branch 9.
On 16 July 2017, President Masoud Barzani honored him with the Barzani Medal. At the 14th Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party he became an alternate member of the Central Committee and assistant to the head of the Party Organization Office in Duhok Governorate.
Source:-Archive of the Encyclopedia Board of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.