Officer and politician Sirwan Sabir Mustafa Sheikh Muhammad, known as Sirwan Barzani, joined the ranks of the Party in 1987 and, in the same year, joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Peshmerga Forces. He was a delegate to the Party's Eleventh Congress in 1993 and Twelfth Congress in 1999, and in 2010 he was elected a member of the Leadership Council of the Kurdistan Democratic Party at its Thirteenth Congress.

Biography

Sirwan Barzani was born in 1970 in Erbil. He is from the family of the sheikhs of the Barzan Tekyia. In 1998, he graduated from the Zakho Military College. In 2015, he received an honorary doctorate in national security from the Cambridge Academy of Science and Technology in the Arab Republic of Egypt. He speaks Kurdish, Arabic, Persian, and English.

Political and military record

Sirwan Barzani In 1975, after the defeat of the Aylul Revolution, Sirwan Barzani was displaced with his family to Iran. In 1979, he returned with his father to South Kurdistan and was deported to Baghdad. In 1987, he joined the Party, and in 1987 he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Peshmerga Forces. In 1988, he took part in the battle of Khuakurk against the Iraqi Army. In 1990, he became responsible for the guards of President Masoud Barzani, and in 1991 he was an aide to Nechirvan Barzani during the stage of the uprising in South Kurdistan, taking part in the liberation of Sulaymaniyah.

He was a delegate to the Party's Eleventh Congress in 1993 and Twelfth Congress in 1999, and in 2010 he was elected a member of the Leadership Council of the Kurdistan Democratic Party at its Thirteenth Congress.

In 1994, he became commander of the Barzani Army belonging to the forces of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 1999, he became an adviser to President Masoud Barzani. In 2014, he was awarded the rank of brigadier general by the President of the Region. In 2014, during the war against ISIS, he was made responsible for the sixth military axis of Gwer-Makhmur on the border of Erbil Governorate.

Source:

Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Department.