Taha Muhyedîn Me'rûf, who is known by the name (Taha Hacî Mela Muhyedîn), was elected as a member of the Central Committee in 1946 during the (First Congress). On Friday, May 2, 2003, after the fall of the Saddam Hussein regime, he surrendered to the forces of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). For a time, he was detained by the forces of the United States of America and was later released. After that, he headed to the city of Sulaymaniyah and later lived in the town of Dukan, which is part of the Sulaymaniyah Governorate.
Biography
Taha Muhyedîn Me'rûf, who is known by the name (Taha Hacî Mela Muhyedîn), was born in 1924 in the city of Sulaymaniyah. He is from the Mirxozî family of Hamadan, who are Kurds from East Kurdistan and migrated from near the city of Hamadan to the city of Sulaymaniyah. In 1946, he was an actor in the play (On the Path to the Homeland), which was performed in the city of Sulaymaniyah, and its proceeds were spent on the victims and those affected by the earthquake in the town of Penjwen, which is part of the Sulaymaniyah Governorate. In 1948, he received a bachelor's degree and a law license from the College of Law in Baghdad. On May 29, 1955, by royal decree, his civil service rank in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Iraq was promoted from the first grade of the third class to the third grade of the second class. In 2007, he went to the country of Jordan for medical treatment. On August 7, 2009, he passed away in the city of Amman, the capital of Jordan, and was buried in the city of Sulaymaniyah. He was proficient in the Kurdish, Arabic, and English languages.
Work History
In 1945, he was a member of the founding committee and a member of the political bureau of the Kurdish Rizgari Party. In 1946, for the purpose of self-dissolution, he participated in the Second Congress of the Kurdish Rizgari Party in the city of Baghdad and joined the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and in the vote, he voted "Yes". In 1946, in a secret situation, he was elected by the congress delegates as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdish Democratic Party (First Congress). In 1946, he was appointed as one of the officials of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Sulaymaniyah. In 1946, as a representative of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, he established contact with Yusuf Salman Yusuf (1901 - 1949), who is known as Fahd, the Secretary of the Iraqi Communist Party, for the purpose of joint action. In 1957, he was the second secretary of the Iraqi embassy in the city of Cairo, the capital of the Republic of Egypt, and assisted the delegation of the Unified Kurdistan Democratic Party in delivering their bylaws to the (Asia - Africa) Peoples' Congress. In 1962, he was the deputy ambassador of the Republic of Iraq in the city of London, the capital of the United Kingdom. In 1968, he was a diplomat at the Iraqi embassy and was assigned in London with the rank of minister. On July 31, 1968, he was appointed as a minister of state in the cabinet of Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr (1914 - 1982). On August 12, 1968, by republican decree, he was appointed as acting Minister of Agrarian Reform. On August 29, 1968, by republican decree, he was appointed as acting Minister of Municipal and Rural Affairs. On September 19, 1968, by republican decree, he was appointed as acting Minister of Labor and Housing (cabinet of Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr) and was on the share and quota of the Ibrahim Ahmad - Jalal Talabani group.
On October 26, 1968, he was one of the signatories of the Iraqi delegation to the joint defense treaty between the Republic of Iraq and the Syrian Arab Republic. On December 13, 1969, by republican decree, he was appointed as acting Minister of Municipal and Rural Affairs. On March 29, 1970, by republican decree, he was transferred as an ambassador with the rank of minister of state to the court of the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs. On June 7, 1970, by republican decree, he became the Iraqi ambassador to the Republic of Italy. In July 1971, he was appointed as a non-resident ambassador to Albania and Malta, along with the embassy to the Republic of Italy. On Saturday, October 5, 1974, he participated in the opening of the Legislative Council for the Kurdistan Autonomous Region in one of the schools in the city of Erbil, which had been organized by the Arab Ba'ath Party, and read a speech in the Arabic language. On Sunday, April 21, 1974, he was appointed as Vice President by Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr (1914 - 1982), the President of Iraq, and remained in this post during the era of Saddam Hussein (1937 - 2006) until the fall of his regime in 2003. On Saturday, October 5, 1974, representing Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, he opened the first session and term of the Legislative Council in the Kurdistan Region and in the city of Erbil.
On 27 February 1975, he was appointed by the Revolutionary Command Council of Iraq as the head of the Supreme Council for Tourism and Resorts of Iraq. On Monday, 28 October 1974, he was received at the Baghdad Palace by Michel Aflaq (1912 - 1989), Secretary-General of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party. On Tuesday, 15 July 1975, he was received in the city of Baghdad by Michel Aflaq, Secretary-General of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party. In January 1975, he was appointed as a member of the Supreme Committee of the Progressive National and Nationalist Front (Al-Jabha al-Wataniyya wal-Qawmiyya al-Taqaddumiyya). In 1979, he was awarded the national medal of (Cruzeiro do Sul) with the rank of (Grande-Cruz) by the Republic of Brazil. In 1981, he was awarded the (Grand Cross) medal by the Republic of Senegal. In 1981, he was awarded the Grand Officer medal by the President of Mali. In 1982, he became a member of the Revolutionary Command Council affiliated with the Arab Ba'ath Party. In 2003, he was ranked 42nd on the list of 55 leaders of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party for whom an arrest warrant had been issued by the coalition. On Friday, 2 May 2003, after the fall of the Saddam Hussein regime, he surrendered to the forces of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and was held for a time by the forces of the United States of America and was later released. After that, he headed to the city of Sulaymaniyah and later lived in the town of Dukan in the Sulaymaniyah Governorate, away from the eyes of media institutions and organizations.
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