The legal, political, and military figure Arif Tayfur Arif Ali, known by the name (Arif Sheikh Tayfur Sergeluyi Barzanji). In 1959, he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Students Union, and in 1963, he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and in the same year, he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Peshmerga forces. He was a delegate to the Eighth Conference in 1970, and at the Eleventh Conference in 1993 and the Twelfth Conference in 1999, he was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and in 2010, at the Thirteenth Conference, he was elected as a member of the Leadership Council of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and in 2018, he was appointed as a member of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

 

Biography

Arif Tayfur was born in 1945 in the city of Sulaymaniyah, completed his middle school stage in Kirkuk and Sulaymaniyah, and in 1967 received a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Baghdad. In 2004, he was appointed as a member of the Iraqi Interim National Council (Al Majlis Al Watani Al Muwaqqit Al Iraqi), and in 2005, he was a candidate for the Kurdistan Alliance list for the Iraqi National Assembly, and after being elected, he became the Second Deputy Speaker of the Iraqi National Assembly. He is proficient in Kurdish, Arabic, English, and Persian.

Career

In 1959, he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Students Union, and in 1963, he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and in the same year, he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Peshmerga forces.

 

He was a delegate to the Eighth Conference in 1970, and at the Eleventh Conference in 1993 and the Twelfth Conference in 1999, he was a member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and in 2010, at the Thirteenth Conference, he was elected as a member of the Leadership Council of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and in 2018, he was elected as a member of the Political Bureau of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 1970, at the Sixth Conference of the Kurdistan Students Union, he was elected as a member of the Executive Committee of the Kurdistan Students Union, and after a year, he became a member of the Secretariat Bureau of the Kurdistan Students Union.

 

During his work within the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, he held several duties and responsibilities, such as administrator of the Third Branch Committee in 1973, person responsible for the Fourth Branch Committee of Sulaymaniyah in 1994, person responsible for the Fifth Branch Committee of Baghdad in 2003, person responsible for the Fourth Branch Committee of Sulaymaniyah in 2004, and Head of the Sulaymaniyah-Halabja Provincial Leadership Council in 2018.  

 

In 1975, after the defeat of the September Revolution, he lived as a refugee in the country of Iran, and there, by President Masoud Barzani he was tasked with preparing for the Gulan Revolution In 1976, he was a member of the Interim Leadership of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (Berlin Conference), and after the martyrdom of Lieutenant Sayid Karim, he took the place of the aforementioned and became a member of the Political Bureau.

 

In 2004, he was appointed as a member of the Iraqi Interim National Council (Al Majlis Al Watani Al Muwaqqit Al Iraqi), and in 2005, he was a candidate for the Kurdistan Alliance list for the Iraqi National Assembly, and after being elected, he became the Second Deputy Speaker of the Iraqi National Assembly. In 2015, he was the supervisor of the Kurdistan Peshmerga forces on the Khazir front (Duhok) against the ISIS force.


 

Source:

Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board.