Biography

Ali Qasim Khidir Muhammad, who is also known as Ali Shingali and Father of Sardar, was born in the year 1933 in the province of Mosul. He holds a diploma in electricity from the Technical Institute of Mosul. In the year 1953 he worked as a technical employee in the electricity department of the Mosul railway, in the year 1955 he worked at the Mosul railway office, in the year 1955 he became a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) Workers' Union. In the year 1956, due to his participation in demonstrations against the tripartite aggression of Britain, France, and Israel on the Republic of Egypt, he was arrested in Mosul and dismissed from his job. In the year 1957 he was established at the telephone center in the city of Mosul, and in the year 1975, after the failure of the September Revolution, he crossed into the Kingdom of Iran. On the 16 of September 1975 he arrived in Damascus, in the Syrian Arab Republic, as a refugee with his family. On Saturday, 05.09.2020, he passed away in Duhok. He was fluent in Kurdish, Persian, and Arabic.

Work History

Ali Qasim Khidir Muhammad, under the alias Ali Shingali, was accepted as a candidate within the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Iraq on the 21 of March 1954. In the year 1955 he received the honor of membership in the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). In May 1955 he participated in the Mosul demonstrations against the Iraqi monarchical regime. In the year 1956 he was the person responsible for the organizational committee of the Mosul District Committee. In the year 1958 he was a member of the Mosul District Committee of the first branch committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). In the year 1958 he met President Mustafa Barzani (1903-1979) in Baghdad with a delegation from Mosul when he returned from abroad. In the year 1959, due to his opposition to the KDP becoming a follower of the Iraqi Communist Party by the left wing of the KDP, he was suspended from party work for six months. However, he was reinstated upon the holding of the second conference in Baghdad. In the year 1959 he became a member of the branch and was appointed to the first branch committee. In the year 1960 he became the person responsible for the inspection and oversight committee of the first branch. In the year 1960 he became a member of the first branch committee. In the year 1960 he was appointed from the sixth group as a member of the first branch committee under the responsibility of Salih Abdullah Najmaddin (1918-1981), who is also known as Salih Yousfi. At the beginning of the year 1961 he was the person responsible for the secret line of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) organizations in the first branch committee. On the 9 of September 1961 he was arrested and tortured in Mosul by the Iraqi security forces. He was sent to the town of Zakho in the Mosul province for further investigation and then sent to the town of Duhok in the Mosul province for further investigation and was released on bail. In December of the year 1962, after his release on bail, he was appointed as a technical employee in the Baghdad Municipality.

In the year 1962 he was the person responsible for the secret line of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) organizations in the fifth branch committee and the person responsible for the relations department of the fifth branch committee. In April 1963 he was dismissed from his job by the authorities due to his Kurdish activities.

In the year 1963, after the arrest of most of the employees of the fifth branch committee by the Iraqi General Security Directorate, he was appointed as the person responsible for the fifth branch committee. In July 1963 with the help of the military line of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) they blew up the Dora oil depot along with the railway so that the Iraqi army would not send its ammunition and soldiers from Til Muhammad near Baghdad to South Kurdistan. On the 24 of February 1964 as a representative of President Mustafa Barzani (1903-1979) he visited the great Shia leader Abdul Mohsen Hakim (1889-1970) in Kufa. On the 4 of April 1964 he participated in a broad meeting in Mawat and on the 10 of April 1964 he visited President Mustafa Barzani with a delegation to resolve the problems, but with the issuance of an initial statement by the Political Bureau, they did not succeed in their attempt and supported the president's wing.

In early June 1964 he was elected as a member of the Preparatory Committee of the sixth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party In the year 1964 he was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) at the sixth Congress. In the year 1964 he represented the Second People's Congress (Qaladize Congress). In the year 1964 he became a member of the Revolutionary Leadership Council in Iraqi Kurdistan. In early the year 1965 he was appointed as the person responsible for the fourth branch committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In February 1965 as a representative of the Kurdistan Democratic Party he participated in the third conference of the Kurdistan Students Union in Qaradagh. In August of the year 1965 he was from the sixth cadre group of the second branch committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and became the person responsible for the branch committee.

In the year 1965 he became the commander of the Safin Force of the Second Army. At the end of November 1965 he commanded the battle of Kepke Gerote on Mount Safin against the Iraqi army and was successful in it. On the 27 of November 1965 he fought against the attack of the first division of the Iraqi army on Mount Shakrok in the Erbil province and was able to prevent the attack. In December of 1965 he was appointed as a member of the Political Bureau and the Executive Bureau of the Revolutionary Leadership Council in Iraqi Kurdistan.

At the beginning of the year 1966, he became the first person responsible for managing the Executive Office, the Office, the guards of the Executive Office, and receiving mail. In November 1966, he was responsible for the preparations for the Seventh Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in the village of Gelale in Erbil province. In the year 1966, he was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) at the Seventh Congress. In the year 1966, he became the head of the executive office of the Revolutionary Leadership Council in Iraqi Kurdistan. In the year 1966, he was elected as a member of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). In November 1966, he resigned from his membership in the Political Bureau. In the year 1966, he was the person responsible for the organizations of the Fifth Branch Committee. In March 1967, for the second time with President Masoud Barzani he carried a letter from President Mustafa Barzani to Grand Ayatollah Abdul Mohsen Hakim (1889-1970) in Najaf. On the 15 of April 1967, under the supervision of President Mustafa Barzani, he was the representative of the Military-Political Conference of Kani Simaq in Erbil. In November 1967, an arrest warrant was issued for him by the Iraqi military intelligence agency on charges of killing Jalal Talabani. In February 1968, he was appointed as the head of the Third Branch Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). In the year 1968, he became the commander of the Qaradagh force of the Third Army. On the 13 of October 1968, he led the counter-attack of the Ibrahim Ahmad-Jalal Talabani group on Mount Silbatu in Kirkuk province, which is known as the Six-Hour War. In the year 1970, he was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) at the 8. Congress. In the year 1970, he was elected as a member of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) at the first meeting of the Central Committee. At the end of the year 1970, he was one of the eleven cadres responsible for the First Branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). In the year 1970, he was a teacher for the third course of the secret organization at the cadre school of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in Baghdad. In 07.12.1970, he participated in the opening of the Kurdistan Women's Union center in Baghdad. In the year 1971, he was a teacher for the third course of the cadre school in Baghdad. On Monday, 01.02.1971, he participated in the graduation ceremony of the third phase of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) cadres at the headquarters of the Fifth Branch Committee in Baghdad. On Thursday, 3 of June 1971, he welcomed a delegation of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party in Mosul province. On the 16 of August 1971, on behalf of the branch committee, he delivered a speech at the celebration of the 25 anniversary of the founding of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). At the end of April 1972, he secretly delivered a special letter from President Mustafa Barzani to Hafez al-Assad, the President of the Syrian Arab Republic, in which he requested help and support. On the 13 of July 1972, he retired by order of the Revolutionary Leadership Council.

In the middle of October 1972, by order of President Mustafa Barzani, he participated in the congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Syria (Provisional Leadership) in the village of Dawidiya in Duhok province.

On the 17 of June 1973, he represented President Mustafa Barzani at the funeral ceremony of Bishop Mario Ale, a member of the Revolutionary Leadership Council in Iraqi Kurdistan. From 16 to the 19 of August 1973, he attended the opening of the 16. Congress of the Kurdish Students Association in Europe (K.S.S.E) in Berlin and gave a speech on behalf of the First Branch Committee. On the 18 of August 1973, he delivered a memorandum from the President of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), General Mustafa Barzani, regarding the Iraqi army's stockpiles of chemical weapons to the International Red Cross in Geneva (Switzerland). In mid-June 1973, he represented President Mustafa Barzani at the funeral ceremony of Bishop Andraws Tiyadors Eyud Berwari (1938-1973) in Baghdad, who was a member of the Revolutionary Leadership Council in Iraqi Kurdistan. On the 1 of January 1975, he became the head of the Fifth Branch Committee. In the year 1974, at the beginning of the war between the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, he joined the ranks of the Peshmerga Forces.

On the 29 of March 1977, the Founding Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Union (KDU) was announced. On the 9 of June 1977, the establishment of the Kurdistan Democratic Union (KDU) was announced and he became the Secretary-General. In the year 1978, he attempted to resolve the disputes between the interim leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), but failed. In the year 1979, he was expelled from the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) at the Ninth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), and on the 20 of January 1980, he wrote a letter to President Masoud Barzani and expressed his dissatisfaction. In the year 1981, he provided educational assistance to the fighters of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the Syrian Arab Republic. In the year 1981, he visited the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in the village of Rajan in East Kurdistan for the purpose of coordination and exchange of views on the situation in South Kurdistan.

On December 14, 1984, he met with the leader of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Muammar Gaddafi, in Tripoli. On December 17, 1986, he met with United Nations officials in New York City. From March 15 to 17, 1991, he participated in the International Congress on the Kurdish Question in Stockholm (Sweden) as the Secretary-General of the Kurdistan Democratic Union. In the year 1992, he was a member of the advisory board of the Iraqi Opposition Congress (Salahaddin Masif Congress). On May 26, 1992, as the Secretary-General of the Kurdistan Democratic Union, he signed a cooperation agreement with the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and the Turkmen National Party. In the year 1992, he was a candidate for the Kurdistan Parliament on the Unity list. On June 9, 1993, at the Duhok conference of the Kurdistan Democratic Union (KDU), he proposed returning to the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and dissolved the Kurdistan Democratic Union (KDU). In the year 1993, he was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Unified at the eleventh congress. In mid-September 1995, he was a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) delegation that visited the Syrian Arab Republic.

On June 29, 1996, together with President Masoud Barzani he attended the first graduation ceremony of the University of Duhok. In the year 1997, he became an advisor to the President of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) on Arab relations. On September 1, 1998, by a decree from President Masoud Barzani he was appointed as Presidential Advisor for Arab Relations. On Sunday, November 29, 1998, he and Hoshyar Mahmoud Mohammed, known as Hoshyar Zebari, were received by Abdullah al-Ahmar, Deputy Secretary-General of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party of Syria. On Wednesday, 02.12.1998, he and Hoshyar Mahmoud, known as Hoshyar Zebari, were received in Damascus by the Vice President of Syria, Abdul Halim Khaddam. On Wednesday, February 24, 1999, he was a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP)-Unified delegation that visited Amman to offer condolences for the passing of Sharif Hashimi (1999).

In the year 1999, he was a representative at the 12th Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in Erbil. On Wednesday, 13.10.1999, at the 12 Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), due to his struggle in the September Revolution, Gulan Revolution, the Uprising of Southern Kurdistan, and the Sovereignty phase, he was awarded the Immortal Barzani Medal by President Masoud Barzani . On March 24, 2000, he was elected as a member of the Executive Committee of the Kurdish-Arab Friendship Association in Erbil. In the year 2010, he was a representative at the 13th Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in Erbil.

in his works:
  1. The Kurdish Liberation Movement: Positions and Views - 1997.
  2. Papers from the Kurdistan Archives - 2007.
  3. The Kurdish Question and the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in Iraq - 2006 - Part One.
  4. The Kurdish Question and the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in Iraq - 2009 - Part Two.
  5. The Kurdish Question and the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in Iraq - 2012 - Part Three.
  6. The Reality of the September Revolution Caravan 11 1961 - 2013.
  7. Pages from the Source of My Memories in the Kurdistan Democratic Party - 2015.
  8. Light on the Reality of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) Relations with Syria.
  9. Facts and Documents Regarding the Kurdistan National Congress - 1996.
Source:
  1. Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.
  2. Masoud Barzani, Barzani and the Kurdish Liberation Movement, Volume Three, (Erbil - Ministry of Education Press - 2002), p. 144, 253.
  3. Ali Shingali, Papers from the Kurdistan Archives, (Duhok - Spirez Publishing House - Khani Press - 2007).
  4. Ali Shingali, The Kurdish Question and the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in Iraq - Part One, (Erbil - Haji Hashim Press - 2006).
  5. Ali Shingali, The Reality of the September Revolution Caravan 11 1961 – 2013, Duhok - Khani Press – 2013.
  6. Ali Shingali, The Kurdish Liberation Movement: Positions and Views, Duhok - Khani Press – 1997.
  7. Ali Shingali, Facts and Documents Regarding the Kurdistan National Congress – (no place – 2013).
  8. Ali Shingali, The Kurdish Question and the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in Iraq - 2012 - Part Three, Duhok - Khani Press – 2012.
  9. Ali Shingali, Pages from the Source of My Memories in the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Duhok - Khani Press – 2015.
  10. Hamid Gawhari, Barzani Medal, The Highest Honor Award, Book 3, (Erbil - Barzani Charity Foundation - 2019), p. 15-20.
  11. Ahmed Banikhalani, My Memories, (Stockholm, 1997), p. 223-224.
  12. Shwan Hussein Shink Baleki, Jawhar Namiq Salim 1946-2011 Life, Work and Political Role, Soran University, Faculty of Arts, 2016, (Unpublished Master's Thesis), p 55.
  13. Suleiman Mustafa Hassan, The Kurds and the First Adventure, (Erbil – Karo Press – 2017), p 280.
  14. Shaban Saeed Mohammed, Me and the Rivalry and Waves of Sorrows, (Duhok - College of Sharia Press - 2000), p 47.
  15. Shakib Aqrawi, Years of Hardship in Kurdistan, The Most Important Political and Military Events in Kurdistan and Iraq from the year 1958 to 1980, second edition, (Erbil - Manara Press - 2007), p. 157.
  16. Ismet Cherif Vanly, Iraqi Kurdistan, A National Identity (A Study on the 1961 Revolution), translated by Suad Mohammed Khidir, (Sulaymaniyah - Jin Foundation - Shivan Press - 2012), p. 316.
  17. Revolutionary Command Council Decision number 1319, Al-Waqae Al-Iraqiya Newspaper, Iraqi Ministry of Information, Number 1933, Baghdad, Wednesday, November 4, 1970, p. 2.
  18. Second Branch, The Second Branch in Half a Century of Struggle, (Erbil - Aras Press - 2010), p 39.
  19. Website of the First Branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP): www.pdk ـ leqa1.com.
  20. Najmaddin Al-Yusufi, The Glorious September Revolution, (Duhok - First Branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Unified, College of Sharia Press - 1995), page 20, 26, 32.