Abd Karim Murad Fathulla, known by the names (Yedula Abdulkarim, Yedula Feyli, Kake Yedi, Zal), was a politician who joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the year 1950. In the year 1959, by the votes of the members of the fourth congress, he became a member of the Inspection and Oversight Board of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and in the year 1960, he was a member of the fifty-person committee supporting the establishment of the Kurdistan Democratic Party for the phase of open work, and in that same year, at the fifth congress, he was elected by the votes of the congress members as a member of the High Oversight and Inspection Board of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In the year 1964, at the sixth congress, and in the year 1966, at the seventh congress, he was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.
Biography
Abd Karim Murad Fathulla was born in the year 1934 in the city of Baghdad to a family of Kurdish Feyli merchants. He was educated in the city of Baghdad and was himself engaged in the merchant trade. He was a high school graduate; in the year 1942, he went to pursue religious studies in the city of Baghdad, and in the year 1943, he went to primary school, where due to his intelligence, he was placed in the third grade of primary school. In the year 1949, he completed the Ja'fari middle school. In the year 1954, he was appointed as an official in the construction materials department, and he passed away on September 19, 2022, in the city of Erbil. He was proficient in the Kurdish, Arabic, and Persian languages.
Career
Abd Karim Murad Fathulla joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the year 1950 and carried out activities within the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party under the secret name Zal. In the year 1951, he became a member of the Baghdad district committee of the Kurdish Democratic Party. In the year 1953, he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Youth Union. In the year 1957, he became the head of the Baghdad district committee of the United Kurdistan Democratic Party, and in the year 1958, he was a member of the delegation welcoming President Mustafa Barzani (1903 - 1979) at the Mussena airport in the city of Baghdad. In the year 1958, he was a member of the five-person committee overseeing the Success Club in the city of Baghdad. In the year 1959, he participated in the second Baghdad conference of the United Kurdistan Democratic Party. In the year 1959, he was elected by the representatives of the fourth congress as a member of the Inspection and Oversight Board of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. On Saturday, January 8, 1960, he was a member of the fifty-person committee supporting the establishment of the Kurdistan Democratic Party for the phase of open work.
In the year 1960, he was elected by the representatives of the fifth congress as a member of the High Oversight and Inspection Board of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. On July 30, 1961, he was detained for a short time in the city of Baghdad by the Iraqi General Security forces on the charge of distributing a statement by the Kurdistan Democratic Party against Abdul Karim Qasim (1914 - 1963), which discussed the violation of constitutional rights and Kurdish policies. In the year 1961, he participated in a meeting of the leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the High Inspection Board, which was held with the aim of finding a solution for dealing with Abdul Karim Qasim and the violations against the Kurds at the house of Dr. Murad Aziz (1918 - 1980) in a neighborhood of Karrada in the east of the city of Baghdad. At the end of September 1961, he visited the Pishdar region, which was under the border of Sulaymaniyah province, with the aim of connecting with the rebel tribes and making preparations for an all-out revolution. In the year 1963, he was a representative of the first people's congress in the city of Koya, and on March 30, 1963, as a member of the Kurdish delegation, he arrived in the city of Baghdad to negotiate with Iraqi officials to secure Kurdish rights in Iraq. In the year 1963, he was imprisoned by the National Guard forces (Al-Haris al-Qawmi) and was severely tortured. In the year 1963, he was imprisoned and tortured in the Hilla prison and was later transferred to the central prison of Baghdad. In the year 1964, after his release from prison, he joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces. In the year 1964, he was recognized as a hero of Kurdistan for his defense and resistance against torture. In the year 1964, he participated in the broad Mawet meeting and represented the Head of the High Oversight and Inspection Board, stood against the decisions of the meeting, and supported President Mustafa Barzani In the year 1964, he was elected by the representatives of the sixth congress as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In the year 1964, he was a representative of the second people's congress in the city of Qaladiza. In the year 1964, he was a member of the Revolutionary Leadership Council in Iraqi Kurdistan. In the year 1964, he was a member of the financial committee affiliated with the Executive Bureau (Al-Maktab al-Tanfidhi) under the Revolutionary Leadership Council in Iraqi Kurdistan.
In the year 1964, he became the second head of the fifth branch committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. At the end of the Year 1965, he was elected as a member of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. At the end of the Year 1965, he became the head of the fifth branch committee. In the year 1966, he was elected by the representatives of the seventh congress as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. On April 15, 1967, he was a representative of the military-political conference in Kani Simak - Erbil. At the end of August 1967, he was a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party leadership committee for resolving the issue of the two sides of the Kurdistan Students Union in the village of Navpirdan, Erbil province, on Friday, June 12, 1970, by the order of President Mustafa Barzani became a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party delegation for the visit to the city of Najaf in Iraq for the purpose of participating in the funeral of Grand Ayatollah Abdul Muhsin al-Hakim (1889 - 1970), the great Shia authority of the world. On 17 June 1970, by the order of Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr (1914 - 1982), President of the Revolutionary Command Council, he was appointed as the manager of the Anbar construction materials contracting company in Baghdad. In 1970, he became the mayor of the city of Anbar in western Iraq. In 1970, he was the Head of the Founding Committee for the open phase of the Kurdistan Democratic Youth Union. On Saturday, 7 December 1970, he participated in the opening of the headquarters of the Kurdistan Women's Union in the city of Baghdad. In 1971, he was involved in thwarting the assassination attempt on Idris Barzani in the city of Baghdad by the Iraqi General Security Directorate. In June 1971, he was appointed as the President of the Kurdistan Democratic Youth Union. On Sunday, 20 June 1971, at the headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Youth Union in the city of Baghdad, he received a delegation from the Soviet Youth Union.
On 2 February 1972, as the President of the Kurdistan Democratic Youth Union, he participated in the fourth congress of the Kurdistan Teachers' Union in the city of Erbil. On 30 March 1972, as the President of the Kurdistan Democratic Youth Union, he delivered a speech at the seventh congress of the Kurdistan Students' Union in the city of Sulaymaniyah. In 1972, he was elected by the representatives of the second congress as the Secretary of the Kurdistan Democratic Youth Union. In 1974, he was elected by the representatives of the third congress as a member of the leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Youth Union. In 1974, for the second time in his life, he joined the ranks of the Peshmerga forces. On 28 April 1974, after their property was seized by the Iraqi government, his family was moved to the liberated areas. In 1974, he became an administrator of the seventh branch committee. In 1974, he became a member of the supervisory committee for the South Kurdistan refugee camp in the Kingdom of Iran. In the years (1975 - 1976), after the defeat of the September Revolution, he was a refugee in the Kingdom of Iran. In 1976, he returned to the city of Baghdad and resided there. In 1992, he left the city of Baghdad and came to the Kurdistan Region. In 1999, he was a representative at the twelfth congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the city of Erbil. On Thursday, 24 August 2000, he published articles in the newspaper Birayati, the organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. On 8 January 2001, he became a Minister of State in the fourth cabinet of the Kurdistan Regional Government. In 2003, he was one of the founders of the Democratic Movement for Faili Kurds (Harakat al-Dimuqratiyah lil-Kurdi al-Fayliyah). In 2010, he was a representative at the thirteenth congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the city of Erbil.
Source:Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.